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Course Outline

Initial Skills Assessment and Review

  • Evaluation of participants' Excel skills.
  • Warm-up activities involving functions and navigation.
  • Review of key concepts for structured datasets.

Budgeting for Purchases and Report Generation

  • Developing basic and dynamic budget templates.
  • Monitoring costs and purchase quantities.
  • Generating purchase summary reports.

Formulas for Inventory and Cost Calculations

  • Employing IF, SUMIF, and SUMIFS for logic-based analysis.
  • Applying VLOOKUP to reference item details.
  • Combining formulas to gain insights into cost-per-unit and supplier performance.

Handling and Analyzing Large Datasets

  • Working with datasets of 5,000+ rows and multiple columns.
  • Utilizing sorting, filtering, and conditional formatting.
  • Leveraging Excel Tables for dynamic range referencing.

Building Purchase Lists and Supplier Reports

  • Creating structured input sheets organized by supplier.
  • Linking inventory, quantity, and cost fields.
  • Summarizing data by category or raw material type.

Practical Inventory Tracking Exercise

  • Simulating consumption versus purchase scenarios (e.g., comparing 1,000 bags purchased to 900 bags consumed).
  • Reconciling usage data with purchase logs.
  • Highlighting discrepancies and generating alerts.

Pivot Tables for Reporting and Analysis

  • Creating pivot tables based on month, item, or supplier.
  • Filtering, grouping, and customizing summaries.
  • Building dashboards using slicers and timelines.

Automating Reports with Macros

  • Recording and editing basic macros.
  • Automating repetitive tasks, such as monthly material consolidation.
  • Executing macros for data refresh and report generation.

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • Familiarity with basic spreadsheet concepts.
  • Experience with file management and data entry.
  • Previous exposure to business or inventory processes.

Audience

  • Inventory and purchasing staff.
  • Operations or logistics analysts.
  • Finance or administrative personnel.
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