Category: spreadsheets

  • Your Spreadsheet Won’t Warn You About Material Shortages

    Your Spreadsheet Won’t Warn You About Material Shortages

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    Roberto Messa
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    Many small manufacturers still use spreadsheets as their Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system. It’s understandable why. Spreadsheets are inexpensive, familiar, and flexible enough to organize inventory, production schedules, and customer orders. As the business grows, however, they gradually become responsible for tasks they were never designed to perform. The problem isn’t spreadsheets themselves. The problem…

  • Many Small Manufacturers Still Use Spreadsheets as MRP

    Many Small Manufacturers Still Use Spreadsheets as MRP

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    Roberto Messa
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    Many small manufacturing companies still use spreadsheets as their MRP system, and honestly, this is far more common than most people realize. RelatedThe MRP Sharing Platform for Manufacturing Inside many factories, the entire production planning process still depends on Excel files maintained manually by the PPC team. Inventory is controlled in one spreadsheet, BOM structures…