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    Safety Stock indexing

    Let me start by thanking everyone in advance. I am new to the forum and hate jumping on here to ask a question like this that has probably been answered several times over.

    I have a worksheet that I am trying to build to help calculate Safety stock based off of a products ABC classification (on rev and quantity), as welll as, its coefficient of variation. I am having a couple problems that I hoped you may be able to help with.

    First, in column CS I am getting #N/A errors on a vlookup for some of the records. I dont see what is going on because the value that I am looking up is also looked up off of another tab. Is this a metadata issue or am i missing something?

    Next, in column DH I am trying to do an Index Match off of a reference table on tab labeled Explain! I am using the below formula, but some of the values it returns are good and some are not. Also, I am having #N/A values returned because I am matching off of the previously mentioned column CS for one axis of my reference table.

    =INDEX(Explain!$B$15:$K$18,MATCH('CV trial'!DG4,Explain!$B$16:$B$18,0),MATCH('CV trial'!CS4,Explain!$C$15:$K$15,0))

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    Re: Safety Stock indexing

    Well, my colleague was able to answer my first question. I forgot to lock my array in my vlookup in column CS. I am still stumped on the index question though. Any thoughts?

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    Re: Safety Stock indexing

    Perhaps one of the MATCH functions are not able to find value in the given range.Value is not available.

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    Re: Safety Stock indexing

    I do not believe that is it because some cells return values (although they are not always correct) and some return errors (#N/A).

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    Re: Safety Stock indexing

    Try adjusting to:

    =INDEX(Explain!$B$15:$K$18,MATCH('CV trial'!DG4,Explain!$B$15:$B$18,0),MATCH('CV trial'!CS4,Explain!$B$15:$K$15,0))

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    Re: Safety Stock indexing

    Mod-That did it. Looks like I did not understand that the two matches need to intersect. Thanks a bunch!
    Last edited by picassov7; 02-22-2012 at 07:05 AM.

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