NEW RELEASE – Fast Excel Development Template v4.2.0 – Now Supporting Modular Systems
“If this is a template, why are most of the sheets blank?”
“What is a modular system? How will this help my planning?”
We will answer these questions, and more.
What Is an Excel-based Modular System? How to Build Your Own? And, More Importantly, Why?
Our latest version of the Fast Excel Development Template fully supports modular systems. We have written here and there about modular systems. But, up until now, we have yet to provide in-depth content on how modules work and why you would use them instead of a single workbook. This article
Dynamic Adaptive Scheduling – Is it Time To Move Beyond Make-to-Stock versus Make-to-Order?
Dynamic Adaptive Scheduling is a way to quickly switch between Make-to-Stock and Make-to-Order on the fly.
Learn how production scheduling in Excel can respond to changing demand conditions without the need to redesign the stock positioning. And how to get a copy of the scheduling tool- free!
NEW DOWNLOAD: Material-Constrained Production Scheduling Tool – with a New Fast Excel Development Template Feature.
How to build a complete material and capacity planning tool, with finite production scheduling and purchased materials constraints by Excel and the Fast Excel Development Template.
Demand Forecasting – History as a Guide to the Future?
The demand history can’t tell us everything about the future, but it can tell us some things. This article and video outlines exactly what and shows an example of automated forecasting in an Excel tool.
How To Measure Variability in Demand…. And Why You Should Think Twice Before Using it For Sizing Inventory
Here is a story about an attempt to size inventory buffers, by measuring demand variability. It is based on a true story and there are lessons learned from real experience.
I’ll tell you the story in both words and data. I have compiled a dataset and will share it here.
Advanced Inventory Analysis: looking into the future – Fast Excel Development Template case study
In this article we explain how to use Excel and the Fast Development Method to build an advanced and fully automated Inventory Analysis Tool with zero VBA coding
How to Build A Business Grade Planning System with Spreadsheets with ZERO Coding and ZERO Cost for Software Licenses- Fast Excel Development Template 4.0
The pandemic economy is shrinking software budgets. You can build your business grade distributed system based on Excel with ZERO coding and ZERO software budget. Learn how our Fast Excel Development Template 4.0 make it possible.
Our Favourite formula is INDEX. Here’s How Microsoft Changed It In 2020 With Dynamic Arrays
An update to Excel 365 in January 2020 means INDEX might work more slowly. Here is how to fix it so it works faster than ever.
Case Study – Why Did I Start Production Planning By Spreadsheets?
This is a story from Gabriele Tettamanzi. Gabriele is a new contributor to the site. In this article, he shares his experience from using the Fast Excel Development Method in his previous company. At the beginning of the 2000s, I worked in the Automotive business. I was leading the
An Experiment – Doing MRP in Excel – Free Training and Download
A new MRP tool and training workshop for free. But, only if you take them together.
How to Build Your Own Planning Systems – With No Coding
Video tutorial on how to build your own planning systems with no software coding.
The Material Planning Template
Here is a Material Planning Template. It is pretty good, as far as planning templates go.
Here is what home-building can teach us about building templates and tools.
DDMRP in Excel – From Idea to Execution – Webinar Replay
A Replay of the webinar – DDMRP in Excel – From Idea to Execution.
Inventory Analysis Tool
The Inventory Analysis Tool is a simple way to quantify and visualise the inventory cover you have and where are the opportunities for improvement of customer service with a lower inventory cost.
How To Build Your Own Capacity Planning Tool in Excel – Webinar Replay
Here is the full recording from our recent webinar “How to Build your Own Capacity Planning Tool in Excel.
It walks you through, step by step, the process of building a Capacity Planning Tool, similar to our Ten Minute Material Planning Tool.
How to Build Your Own Capacity Planning Tool in Excel
We show you how to build our Capacity Planning Tool with our Fast Excel Development template.