I'm having major issues with circular reference in a production planning tool I have created and can't work out the problem. Is the anyone out the how I can send the spreadsheet to explain where am going wrong.
In simple terms I am trying to sort the below example by machine/previous operation finish date/recommended operation start day to give me an optimum start finish date for each work order/operation except on a much bigger scale. When I sort I get circular references because dates are dependant. I have tried using iterations but that just gives even worse result. Is there something different I should be doing?
Work Order
Operation
Machine
Cycle Days
Recommend Operation Start Date
Previous Operation Finish Date
Actual Operation Start Date
Actual Operation finish Date
1
1
A
0.5
01/01/2018
=vlookup of previous operation finish date
=either previous operation finish date or date of finish date of previous operation on machine
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