SpiritCars
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Greetings! So I am currently working on a project at my job. It is something that I can do by hand, but requires a tedious amount of time. I'll try to explain briefly and then I need help figuring out how to use formulas to make this easier.
We create hot rods from the ground up. We have departments: Fiberglass, Body Shop, Fabrication, Upholstery, Rod Shop, and Painting. Each department has an average time placed on the items or work they do, such as in Fiberglass, a 23T Bucket body takes 10 hours to build. Then, it goes to the Body Shop, which takes 22 hours. And so on.
My job is to take these calculated times and create a customer timeline based on the amounts of hours each thing takes in each department and projecting the finish date, so that we can give our customer a shipping date (and strive to meet it).
I need a formula that I can use to convert each item (ex: 23T) to it's individual department times (ex: 10 hrs fiberglass, 22 hrs body shop, etc) and then populate that figure into the calendar with the customer's name on the date it is expected to be finished. I realize that this is probably going to be far more complicated than one simple formula.
My deadline for that calendar is today, and while I know will not make that deadline even if I had all the formulas and information entered into the spreadsheet, I will still be doing it by hand and using said spreadsheet at a future date to continue being able to keep track of the timeline in a more manageable format.
I guess I should know if this is even a possibility, and if so, can someone help me with it?
We create hot rods from the ground up. We have departments: Fiberglass, Body Shop, Fabrication, Upholstery, Rod Shop, and Painting. Each department has an average time placed on the items or work they do, such as in Fiberglass, a 23T Bucket body takes 10 hours to build. Then, it goes to the Body Shop, which takes 22 hours. And so on.
My job is to take these calculated times and create a customer timeline based on the amounts of hours each thing takes in each department and projecting the finish date, so that we can give our customer a shipping date (and strive to meet it).
I need a formula that I can use to convert each item (ex: 23T) to it's individual department times (ex: 10 hrs fiberglass, 22 hrs body shop, etc) and then populate that figure into the calendar with the customer's name on the date it is expected to be finished. I realize that this is probably going to be far more complicated than one simple formula.
My deadline for that calendar is today, and while I know will not make that deadline even if I had all the formulas and information entered into the spreadsheet, I will still be doing it by hand and using said spreadsheet at a future date to continue being able to keep track of the timeline in a more manageable format.
I guess I should know if this is even a possibility, and if so, can someone help me with it?
