Auto Populate My Cost Per Order on Orders Workbook Based on SKU from Price List Workbook

Hi,

I have searched through both major excel forum sites and could not find an exact solution to my question and have been trying to solve this for quite a while now so any help is very much appreciated.

I have two workbooks, one is the list of items I sold “orders” and the other is my cost of goods “price list”. I would like to have my SKUs in my “orders” workbook automatically grab my cost from the “price list” workbook based on the SKU number and paste its price on the same row (in a blank cell) on the column next to it. My end goal is to find out my COGS for the month and have a breakdown of it by SKU.

- I am able to export all of my orders for the month in a workbook. The workbook lists the SKU number in one column, and the quantity sold in the next.

- I have my “price list” in a separate workbook. The price list contains only my SKU number and my cost for the item each in individual columns.

- I would like to know how to have excel scan for the SKU in the “price list” workbook and bring in/input my cost of that SKU/item into the “orders” workbook. If there was more than 1 quantity of an item sold than it should calculate how much I sold based on the “quantity” column in that same sheet.

- Note: I do not want the “orders” workbook to refer to a SKU’s price based on a SKU cell’s location because the SKU cell location may change. Would it be possible for the “orders” workbook to search for the SKU and bring in the cost solely based on the SKU number matching one another from the “price list” workbook?

- Note: I am using Excel For Mac 2011

- I have attached a sample of both files to maybe help get a better understanding of what I’m trying to do.

Apologies ahead of time for my extremely limited knowledge of Excel. I hope this all made sense! A step-by-step explanation on how to get this done would be great.

Thank you!