Allocating Amounts into Bucket

[jasonkch9]

Hi There,

Here is the problem:
Say I have 5 inventory of products (liquids):
Jan Feb Mar
Milk 5 10 1
Water 7 8 40
Orange Juice 10 32 3

Now say I have the following containers:
Container 1 - capacity 1
Container 2 - capactiy 3
Container 3 - capacity 4
Container 4 - capacity 5
Container 5 - capacity 10
Container 6 - capacity 10
Container 7 - capacity 20

The products cannot be mixed, and I want to know if I have capacity to hold those products and what percentage each container is to capacity in every month. So I need an excel method to essentially say:

Jan Feb
Container 1 Milk 100%
Container 2 Water 100% Water 100%
Container 3 Milk 100% OJ 50%
Container 4 Water 80% Water 100%
Container 5 OJ 100% Milk 100%
Container 6 OJ 100%
Container 7 OJ 100%

This is a slight math/excel question. Any help would be appreciated. i think the first step is to organize your capacity by smallest to largest, but not sure what's the next step for it to be most efficient calculation.

 

[AFPathfinder]

So, you need to find out which size of container to use for each product/month? I visualize this like a coin sorter where each coin drops once a certain size is met. I'm sure there are ways to do this with normal Excel functions, but I'd suggest VBA if this is something that will need repeated

Are you able to change the data around to make a table and run pivot tables off that data? Something like this:

Liquid	Month	Amount	Container	Fill %
Milk	Jan	5	4	100%
Water	Jan	7	5	70%
Orange Juice	Jan	10	5	100%
Milk	Feb	10	5	100%
Water	Feb	8	5	80%
Orange Juice	Feb	32	-	0%

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