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Course Outline

Initial Skills Assessment and Review

  • Assessment of participants' Excel skills
  • Warm-up activities focusing on functions and navigation
  • Review of key concepts for structured data sets

Budgeting for Purchases and Report Generation

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

Formulas for Inventory and Cost Calculations

  • Utilizing 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 Data Sets

  • Working with data sets exceeding 5,000 rows and multiple columns
  • Sorting, filtering, and applying conditional formatting
  • Using 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

Practical Inventory Tracking Exercise

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

Pivot Tables for Reporting and Analysis

  • Creating pivot tables organized by month, item, or supplier
  • Filtering, grouping, and performing custom summarization
  • Building dashboards using slicers and timelines

Automating Reports with Macros

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

Summary and Next Steps

Requirements

  • A foundational understanding of spreadsheet concepts
  • Familiarity with file management and data entry
  • Previous exposure to business or inventory processes

Target Audience

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