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    Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    I am attempting to use Excel to design a schedule for shipping and am having some real difficulty. I've spent the last two days trying to hammer out a solution but I'm not finding one.

    Here are the details:
    • I have a list from the customer of when they want the product shipped to them. They will receive (I will send) one shipment every month, and each month there is a required number of units.
    • I can ship units early but I can't go over or under the final totals at the end of the year for the number of units.
    • The minimum number of units that can be in a single shipment is 15. I can choose to ship zero units in a month if the customer already received the ones they needed early.
    • I have to minimize the number of units shipped at any given time, but only if the customer has what they need already.


    Here is an example of when the customer wants to receive units and how many:

    Jan 10
    Feb 20
    Mar 15
    Apr 30
    May 50
    June 75
    July 100
    August 110
    September 100
    October 70
    November 40
    December 20

    What I want my output to look like is to tell me if I ship units in a given month and how many to ship, while following the above rules.

    EDIT:

    The system must also be able to handle this scenario:

    Minimum shipment of 25 units.

    Jan 10
    Feb 0
    Mar 12
    Apr 0
    May 5
    June 0
    July 0
    Aug 5
    Sep 5
    Oct 13
    Nov 5
    Dec 5
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    Re: Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    Is there a max of units the customer want to have?
    Is there a max of units you can ship at once?

    Otherwise you do everything in 1 shipment that is cheap and easy
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    Re: Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    Quote Originally Posted by popipipo View Post
    Is there a max of units the customer want to have?
    Is there a max of units you can ship at once?

    Otherwise you do everything in 1 shipment that is cheap and easy
    Thank you for your response.

    Unfortunately I cannot send an entire year's shipment at once. One of my given rules is that I have to minimize the shipment while still fulfilling the customer's unit requirements and the minimum ship amount.

    Edit: To answer your question more completely, I do not have a strict maximum on units, only the minimizing rule.

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    Re: Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    Take a look at this.
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    Re: Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    Please see the attachment. I've used mixed relative and absolute addressing to give running totals. If you enter your numbers in the shipping column, you will be able to see if the balance is positive or negative.
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    Re: Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    Quote Originally Posted by mrice View Post
    Please see the attachment. I've used mixed relative and absolute addressing to give running totals. If you enter your numbers in the shipping column, you will be able to see if the balance is positive or negative.
    Thank you for the file. It is very close to what I am looking for, but one problem remains. I apologize for not putting this in the original post.

    The system must be able to plan for a variable minimum shipment. In the case of another product (that I will use an almost identical spreadsheet for) the minimum is 25. I have edited the sheet you gave me to include a variable minimum shipment size (and the appropriate data) and there is a discrepancy with the final totals. Is this a problem with my imposed minimums and I'll have to accept that inaccuracy?
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    Re: Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    Is this a problem with my imposed minimums and I'll have to accept that inaccuracy?
    That is correct.
    You will compensate it the next year.

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    Re: Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    Quote Originally Posted by popipipo View Post
    That is correct.
    You will compensate it the next year.
    Thanks for all of your help so far.

    I have an additional scenario I'd like to try to solve that relates to this.

    I'm imposing a suspension of the minimum shipment rule for the very last shipment.

    Minimum shipment of 25 units.

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    Re: Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    If minimum shipment is 25 and december needs 20 then you shipment in november must be 5 less
    But then you don't heave enough in november.

    So it is impossible

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    Re: Using Excel to determine a shipping schedule

    A little adjustment.
    Don't deliver in december and deliver 20 more in november
    Take a look at the formulas from nov and dec.
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