Automated Time Schedule

Josh88

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Hi All,

I need to make a quick schedule to calculate shipping and processing times for my business.
My schedule contains multiple stages that differ in their time period, so I would like to have something that can calculate when all tasks need to be completed by in order for my shipping to arrive by the required date.

For example:-
Finalize artwork: (make payment-1 day)
Make payment: (commence printing-3 days)
Commence printing: (finish printing-2 days)
Finish printing: (goods pick up-2 days)
Goods pick up: (commence shipping-3 days)
Commence shipping: (arrival in port-14 days)
Arrival in Port: (customs release-7 days)
Customs Release: 22/12/17

I want to have this built to work backwards so that I can simply designate a date for my goods to arrive and automatically have the dates required to complete the steps until then. If it is possible to have excel skip over weekends this would be even better.

Thanks a lot!!
 

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Excel 2013 32 bit
ABC
1WorkDaysDates
2Finalize artwork: (make payment-1 day)108-Nov
3Make payment: (commence printing-3 days)309-Nov
4Commence printing: (finish printing-2 days)214-Nov
5Finish printing: (goods pick up-2 days)216-Nov
6Goods pick up: (commence shipping-3 days)320-Nov
7Commence shipping: (arrival in port-14 days)1423-Nov
8Arrival in Port: (customs release-7 days)713-Dec
9Customs Release: 22/12/1722-Dec22-Dec
ChrX
Cell Formulas
RangeFormula
C2=WORKDAY(C3,-B2)
C3=WORKDAY(C4,-B3)
C4=WORKDAY(C5,-B4)
C5=WORKDAY(C6,-B5)
C6=WORKDAY(C7,-B6)
C7=WORKDAY(C8,-B7)
C8=WORKDAY(C9,-B8)
C9=B9
 
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looks much easier than I thought!
According to what you made, when i change B9 it will automatically adjust all dates to suit, correct?
Is there anyway to dictate a 5-day work week to excel so that it skips over saturday and sunday?
 
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Workday excludes weekends and any date that is a holiday as indicated by the optional holidays augment.
 
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According to what you made, when i change B9 it will automatically adjust all dates to suit, correct?
Correct
Is there anyway to dictate a 5-day work week to excel so that it skips over saturday and sunday?
As pointed out by Scott T, it already does this.
 
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Thank Fluff and Scott T.
I have just tested it out and received the following results:

[TABLE="class: grid, width: 500"]
<tbody>[TR]
[TD="align: center"][/TD]
[TD="align: center"]A[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]B[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]1[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]9[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]42947[/TD]
[/TR]
[TR]
[TD="align: center"]2[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]11/8/17[/TD]
[TD="align: center"]11/8/17[/TD]
[/TR]
</tbody>[/TABLE]

formula used for B1 is =WORKDAY(B2,-A1)
 
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Format B1 as a date
42947 is 31st July
 
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Glad to help & thanks for the feedback
 
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