Inventory Control
The county I work for uses a network and MS OUTLOOK (for emailing). Once a
month, each outlying EMS station fills out a supply reorder, saves it, signs onto the network and attaches the workbook to the email and sends it to the supply officer. I am trying to figure out the best way to set up an inventory control and have the master inventory "file" look at each workbook that is downloaded and saved (on the supply officer's end) and adjust all the inventory. From my little bit of programming knowledge with excel, I have some ideas but was wondering if anybody might be able to throw some other ideas my way. Basically, my idea consist of having a MASTER inventory control spreadsheet for the supply officer. Each station (7 in all) will have a workbook with 12 worksheets predefined with the reorder setup. Unless someone monkeys with worksheet names, etc., the MASTER spreadsheet would look at each workbook and find the correct supply order and pull the numbers and adjust the totals. Any ideas are appreciated on this. Thanks, Les |
Inventory Control
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... The county I work for uses a network and MS OUTLOOK (for emailing). Once a month, each outlying EMS station fills out a supply reorder, saves it, signs onto the network and attaches the workbook to the email and sends it to the supply officer. I am trying to figure out the best way to set up an inventory control and have the master inventory "file" look at each workbook that is downloaded and saved (on the supply officer's end) and adjust all the inventory. From my little bit of programming knowledge with excel, I have some ideas but was wondering if anybody might be able to throw some other ideas my way. Basically, my idea consist of having a MASTER inventory control spreadsheet for the supply officer. Each station (7 in all) will have a workbook with 12 worksheets predefined with the reorder setup. Unless someone monkeys with worksheet names, etc., the MASTER spreadsheet would look at each workbook and find the correct supply order and pull the numbers and adjust the totals. Any ideas are appreciated on this. Thanks, Les As much as I love Excel, you'd really be better off studying a bit about relational databases, and using Access instead of Excel for your project. An inventory control system *can* be designed in Excel, but there will be moments when you have great ideas that a spreadsheet cannot handle. These "gotcha" moments can be avoided by using the right tool to start with. The link below discusses relational database theory (a bit). If it mentions particular software, it's not important. You can implement these ideas in any number of database products. http://r937.com/relational.html |
Inventory Control
A lot of service providers love to do this.
Try them. "WLMPilot" wrote in message ... The county I work for uses a network and MS OUTLOOK (for emailing). Once a month, each outlying EMS station fills out a supply reorder, saves it, signs onto the network and attaches the workbook to the email and sends it to the supply officer. I am trying to figure out the best way to set up an inventory control and have the master inventory "file" look at each workbook that is downloaded and saved (on the supply officer's end) and adjust all the inventory. From my little bit of programming knowledge with excel, I have some ideas but was wondering if anybody might be able to throw some other ideas my way. Basically, my idea consist of having a MASTER inventory control spreadsheet for the supply officer. Each station (7 in all) will have a workbook with 12 worksheets predefined with the reorder setup. Unless someone monkeys with worksheet names, etc., the MASTER spreadsheet would look at each workbook and find the correct supply order and pull the numbers and adjust the totals. Any ideas are appreciated on this. Thanks, Les |
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