Hi there,

I'm working for a manufacturing company in FMCG industry. One of my
jobs is to build and maintain an activity based financial model in
Excel which simulates the whole group's financial performance based on
current/projected sales & manufacturing conditions. The model can
enable user to drill down to SKU level to analyse the profitability.
Because I don't have access to our ERP system's database, I have to
replicate all master data I need in various tables in the model
workbook. That means the model has its build-in database in Excel
worksheets. The model is 100% dynamic which means the workbook is full
of formulae and any change in one area will ripple through the whole
modle and impact the bottom line. The model works fine so far to
simulate the performance down to contribution level (meaning
calculation of profit after taking account of promotion, warehousing &
distribution costs). Guess what my model looks like now - has more than
1 million formulae and more than 100MB in size and take more than 30
minutes to do a full-scale recalculation (if successful at all)! But my
company wants me progress to EBIT level, which means I need take in more
& more data and build more formula and store more data. I know I've
reached the critical point beyond which will be out of Excel's
capacity. I remember I saw an article on Internet about the superiosity
of Access to Excel regarding financial modelling. But I just could find
it now by all means.

My questions: could anyone show me how to do modelling in Access? I
mean those dynamic things in Access as in Excel. Can I have a sample
Access DB for financial modelling? Or is there any other software that
can handle industrial level modelling like mine?

Any comment is welcome.

Cheers

Huyeote


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