Allocation & Matching in Excel: FIFO Payments to Invoices, Stock to Orders, Fair-Share Rationing, Capacity Allocation & Matching Two Lists
Allocate money, stock and capacity in the right order. You will apply payments to the oldest invoices first, allocate scarce stock to orders by priority and date, ration fairly when there is not enough, fill capacity slot by slot and match records between two lists, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
This course works through allocation and matching for a fictional housewares distributor, with every rule marked as illustrative. You build running totals with growing SUM ranges and SUMIFS arrays, apply payments to the oldest invoices first with MAX/MIN, fill an allocation matrix for several payments and invoices with one overlap formula, rank orders by priority and date with COUNTIFS and allocate scarce stock, ration fairly with ROUNDDOWN and the largest-remainder rule, load jobs into working days with ROUNDUP and WORKDAY, match bank lines to invoices within amount and date tolerances and close the month with check totals and a chart.
Lessons
- Running Totals as the Engine: Cumulative Amounts, What Is Left & Where It Runs Out Pro
- FIFO Payments to Invoices: Oldest First, Allocated Amounts, Open Balances & Part-Paid Flags Pro
- Several Payments, Several Invoices: Running Totals on Both Sides & the Allocation Matrix Pro
- Stock to Orders by Priority: Rank by Two Keys, Demand Ahead & Filled, Part or Zero Pro
- Fair-Share Rationing: Proportional Shares, Whole Units & the Largest-Remainder Rule Pro
- Capacity Allocation: Jobs into Days in Sequence, Finish Days, Dates & Overflow Pro
- Matching Two Lists: Exact Keys, Amount & Date Tolerances and First-Match Rules Pro
- Allocation Dashboard: Unallocated Cash, Check Totals, Exceptions & a Chart Pro