Extract a report showing parameters beyond tolerance limits

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Depending upon tolerance limit specified for every technical parameter, extract a report which lists down all those day wise parameters which breach tolerance limits.  The question and solution have been elaborately explained in the workbook.

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Extract data based on customer specific dimensions

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Depending upon customer requirements specified for width, thickness and length os material, extract a report showing all records from the master stock-list which meets the requirements. The question and solution have been elaborately explained in this workbook.

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Determine stock transfer from multiple locations

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The objective is to determine the quantity of stock (of a particular type) to be transferred from “Stock surplus” locations to “Stock deficient” ones.  If all the requirements cannot be met from one location, tap other locations.  The final output should show the location from where stock is being transferred.  Furthermore the order of determining […]

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Transfer specific columns to another workbook based on conditions

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One may want to transfer rows of specific columns to another file based on the date mentioned in one column.  Transfer rows which pertain to a specific year into the respective worksheet of another file. For transferring rows of data from only one worksheet of the source workbook, please refer to files in this zipped […]

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Compute Day Sales Outstanding (DSO)

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A financial concept, Day Sales Outstanding (DSO), is a measure of the average number of days that a company takes to collect revenue  after a sale has been made.   For further clarification, read here. Herein, i have presented the solution for two different data layouts.  Further, Layout 2 has two further divisions – one for computing […]

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Conditional testing without lengthy nested IF functions

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Many a times writing nested IF() statements become cumbersome, lengthy and highly prone to errors.  In worksheet named “Question”, one would like to avoid using spare columns for computation of landed value for the three product sources (“CKD”, “LMP”, “IMP”).  While one can use a nested IF() statement, it would be unmanageable because of the length of the […]

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Apply the SUMPRODUCT() function on the visible cells of a filtered range

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The SUMPRODUCT() function works on all cells in the specified range – whether filtered or not.  However, one may want to apply the same function on the visible cells of a filtered range. You may refer to my solution in this workbook.

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Extract information based on background colour

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A range of cells has multiple background colours.  Depending upon the colour selected by an end user via a cell drop down, those cells (along with information in other columns) should get transferred to another worksheet. You may refer to my solution in this workbook.

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