I have no programming experience, yet I am in a desperate need for a help. I am managing a large restaurant/catering company where i once a month have to make an inventory of more than 1.000 products. I have an excell sheets, that are devided into a categories, for example for the kitchen, there is Fruits And Vegetables, Dairy, Frozen, Fresh Meat etc.
It is really hard, to go around using a laptop and do the inventory of more than a 1.000 items manually, so i was thinking, since I actually have a barcode scanner, if there is a possibility to just go around, and scan the products, after scanning a products barcode, excell would take me to the row of the products that corresponds to the scanned barcode.
Right now, if i scan the barcode with a scanner while in excell, it will just add the scanned value to what ever field i am in currently. so the scanner works, all i need is to capture that scan, compare it to the all barcodes that are associated with products, so it could take me to the QTY field of that particular product.
For example, if i scan a Star Anis product with barcode 23135165, the excell should find that product, which is as per picture in field B6, and than take me to the field F6, which is where the quantity should be entered.
\So, in short, i scan a product that is in a dry storage, the excell finds a product within 6 different sheets via corresponding barcode, and takes me to the field where i can enter the quantity of that product :)
This would save me hours and hours of work :)
can this be done? Thank you :)
This is the picture of one of the sheets that i use when making and inventory.
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After looking at a few similarish questions I figured I needed something more specific so asking here. I will start by explaining the situation:
The Setup
I have a Store which sells Cakes, Cookies and Wine. I have the weekly sales data of each product sorta like this:
Product ID
Product Name
Quantity
Value
Week Ending
1
Ginderbread
2
£4
13/01/22
2
Chocolate chip
5
£25
13/01/22
3
Red Wine Bottle
1
£10
13/01/22
4
Sponge Cake
3
£9
13/01/22
Currently every week's data is stored within the same table, with me using a Week filter to show only the week i'm interested in.
Using this Data I created PivotTables that shows the sales of each category, with the ability to drill down to show the specific products. Table looks something like this:
Category
Quantity
Value
Cakes
2
£4
Cookies
7
£29
Wine
1
£10
The issue
I now want to stick in a new calculated column that shows the Value as a %. E.g The total value for the previous table was £43, so Cookies is about 67%. If I drill down, it would show the Chocolate Chip record as 80% and Gingerbread as 20%
I imagine doing this would be easier if each individual week's data was on a different table, but I got a lot of weeks and I also want to do tables showing the sales for over a period of time. Plus I don't know of a way to merge the "value" and "quantity" columns, etc instead of having 1 for each week being shown.
any advice would be appreciated
Create an extra column in the source table (prior to filtering) entitled "perc" calculated as the corresponding value for each row divdied by the total value across all rows (se pic. / eqn. for first row below) --
=E2/$E$6
No calculated fields required - just include perc as the mesaure of interest in your pivot table, with value setting as 'sum':
The reason why this worked is because of the common denominator - which allows one to sum ratios on a 1:1 basis.
Devising a calculated field using the standard 'fields, items & sets' functionality for ordinary pivot tables would not be feasible / possible as far as I am aware. You would need to move into the realm of power pivots and data models - which is not too complicated (readily accesible directly from the field list per below) - however, I see this as unnecessary complication for the task at hand.
Side notes:
Using table names in your functions is sometimes more convenient when entering, albeit may appear tricky at first when reviewing - first eqn above becomes:
=[#Value]/Table1[[#Totals],[Value]]
I'm working on a charging matrix where project managers can input time to the top three contracts in each category based on a week to week basis. Right now I have a pivot table with the categories (Production, Spares, Development) with multiple contracts that were charged that week. I manually select the top three from each category and copy into a table where I have formulas creating charge numbers for the project managers to use.
The question is, is there a way I can automate selecting the top 3 contracts from each category based on number of hours for that specific week?
Pivot Table & Charging Matrix
You can use LARGE() to get the top 3 (large(data,1) etc)
Then use index() and match() to get the contract names.
I have made a simple example here, but it will not deal with duplicate results in the hours if they are in the top 3...
There are solutions to that already posted.
If I understand you correctly, you want to automate the process of finding the top 3 contracts under each category and then create the charge number based on the results.
You can do so by creating a new pivot table as demonstrated below, put the Category Name and Contract Name in the Rows field, and put the Hours in the Values field, then right click anywhere within the Row Labels column of the pivot table, go to Filter -> Top 10... -> enter 3 in the second field, then you should have the top three contracts for each category.
P.s. You can choose to sort the hours from largest to smallest, and choose NOT to show the subtotals for each category.
Once you have the list, you can enter your formula (I presume you used a formula) in corresponding cells in column H (as in my example) to create the desired charge number.
I am very new to most of this. I am trying to analyze account attribution a large Excel spreadsheet containing invoice information. My columns A:AF are all the data describing each invoice in our system (name of provider, name of person billed, date received, date billed, etc...). These invoices are assigned to several different GL numbers (up to 22 per invoice). I was given a long string which I was able to break down into columns 4 columns per GL attribution and which I appended to the end of every invoice, where applicable (AG:EL).
Each GL attribution has 4 columns (always in the same order):
GL number
Billed amount before taxes
Amount of tax 1
Amount of tax 2
I would like to see whether there is any way I can have rows created automatically to have one entry per GL attribution instead of one entry per invoice. I would like for the general invoice information (A:AF) to be copied onto the newly created rows. I would really appreciate your help on this as I feel rather lost!
Thank you in advance! :)
I'm not entirely sure what you are trying to accomplish from your description, but if you look into using VBA and make an "if...Then..." statement that will copy and paste the information you want depending on the value of the GL columns that should be a good place for you to start.
I have an Index Match Match question that I have not been able to find the answer for in researching. Although the solution may actually might be different than an Index Match Match formula - I'm open to try something more efficient than my current workaround.
I have one worksheet with data from my company on it. We sell a Product (let's call it Coke Zero) and we track the weeks that we put a promotion on and how much profit we make by selling it to the retailer. For example a promotion for Coke Zero starts the first week of Jan and ends 3 weeks later and we make a gross profit of $100 each week the promotion runs. I then have an external database with sales data formatted on a weekly basis to tell me how many units of Coke Zero I sold in each week. My internal data has thousands of lines like this with dozens of products, however the promotions are consolidated on one single row regardless of if it runs for more than one week, making matching up to the external database difficult. I need to create a lookup for what our Gross Profit was for each week of the promotion.
I have attached an example image of the workbook + two data sheets of what I've tried to do, summarised below.
On the Internal Data Sheet I've created additional columns to the right with all of the weeks listed that the promotion is on for, and concatenated them with the Product Code to be able to match week by week to the data in the External data sheet. Then my lookup basically checks every column one after another until it finds one where the concatenate of Week_Product Code concatenate matches.
My current solution technically works but my final formula is really slow and cumbersome given the data can be anywhere from 10K-200K lines when looking at multiple retailers. I was hoping to find a more efficient formula to complete the lookup.
Current solution on the External Data Sheet Column E:
=IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(D2,'Internal Data'!$E:$E,0)),INDEX('Internal Data'!$D:$D,MATCH(D2,'Internal Data'!$E:$E,0)),
IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(D2,'Internal Data'!$F:$F,0)),INDEX('Internal Data'!$D:$D,MATCH(D2,'Internal Data'!$F:$F,0)),
IF(ISNUMBER(MATCH(D2,'Internal Data'!$G:$G,0)),INDEX('Internal Data'!$D:$D,MATCH(D2,'Internal Data'!$G:$G,0)),
"0")))
I got SUMPRODUCT to work using this formula in J2:
=SUMPRODUCT(--($B$2:$D$3=H2)*--($E$2:$E$3=I2)*$F$2:$F$3)
And, you don't need those concatenated lookup columns:
Well, that was fun.
I am currently working on an Excel sheet of list of people working in a company.
The company has multiple teams and multiple positions and I've listed them all in an Excel sheet (I am using Excel 2007). And because the positions and the list of people may differ on daily basis (based on who gets promoted or fired) I had to make date column and place a filter on the "date", "position", and "team".
Now I want to make it so that I filter it out for, let's say, year = 2011, position = team manager, team = information tech. team.
I have managed to get this far on my own but now I am wondering when I filter this out (out of 700+ lines), based on the position or team name, if I can add the total number of people under the same team or same positions.
For example, if there are 10 people under information tech. team, can I make it so it displays "total number of people = 10", without me having to count each one of them by hand when I apply the filter?
Also, if there are 4 people under information tech. team as the manager, it would show that "total number of managers under IT team = 4".
Are there any commands or methods I can use in Excel to do this?
Enter the following in the cell you want it in, and it will change, as per this link:
=SUBTOTAL(3, C2:C1000)