Help required with SUMIF function from Table with helper column

[driver_1980]

Hello

I've been applying a solution posted by Rijnsent to take sales data of finished products and populate a raw materials inventory table. Here is the solution posted by Rijnsent: -

Raw Material Stock management using excel help

I am currently trying to construct a table of raw materials that will automatically adjust based on information entered about productions. The system currently consists of 3 excel sheets: 1. A general ledge of all finished product stock in and out. This consists of columns for date, product...

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Hi Icecream Man,
so for your raw materials you have a starting inventory from which you want to deduct if it is used by filling in finished product? How many different ingredients are there?

So going by your name:

1) products:
date - product - batches
22-1-2019 - vanilla ice cream - 2
21-1-2019 - strawberry ice cream - 3

2) formulations (table)
Name - ingredient - quantity
vanilla - milk - 6
vanilla - vanilla - 1
vanilla - sugar - 3
strawberry - milk - 6
strawberry - sugar - 2
strawberry - strawberry - 1

3) stock on hand
ingredient - start stock - usage in period - leftover stock
milk - 12 - ? - ?
vanilla - 10 - ? - ?
sugar - 10 - ? - ?

There are multiple routes you can take. A simple one is e.g. adding columns to sheet 1: one for each ingredient. Next, add a column to table 2 with a helper value, merging the product and ingredient, e.g. "strawberry_sugar" and "vanilla_sugar". In sheet 1, do a VLOOKUP on that table with the column header (the ingredient) and the row title (the product) to pick up the quantity needed per batch. See this for help: https://exceljet.net/formula/vlookup-with-multiple-critiera
Next, for sheet 3 you can use SUMIFS to pick up that data from sheet 1. Define for yourself what the period is, you can e.g. pick up all milk used in january, see SUMIFS with date range as criteria on how to use that formula with date ranges.

Hope that gets you started,

Koen
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Sales of finished products are recorded in this table with columns for each raw material: -
View attachment 26581
The sales data above is referenced against this bill of materials table using a VLOOKUP formula and the helper column: -
View attachment 26582
The final part of Rijnsent's solution is to use a SUMIF function for Column F (used in production) in my raw materials inventory table below: -
View attachment 26583

The problem I have now is that when I input the formula =SUMIF(Table57[[Item description]:[Price]],[@Products],Table57[Small black box]), into the 'Used in Production' (Column F), the formula for the entire column is the small black box. If I change it to large black box (or any other column reference) in one cell, it copies it for every other cell in that column. Is there anyway I can stop this from happening? P.S. Table 57 is the 'sales table'. Thank you.

 

[driver_1980]

For some reason it hasn't uploaded the screenshots I'd taken. Here they are: -
Sales of finished products are recorded in this table with columns for each raw material: -

The sales data above is referenced against this bill of materials table using a VLOOKUP formula and the helper column: -

The final part of Rijnsent's solution is to use a SUMIF function for Column F (used in production) in my raw materials inventory table below: -