Problem
A commercial company imports raw material from suppliers based in diverse geographies. Manufacturers use measures of area and length outside the metric system, such as feet, square feet, yards, and square yards. In order for the company to know exactly the quantity (in area or linear length) of the raw material it needs for an order, it was necessary to make a set of calculations to conversion of area units that invariably resulted in errors and that required of a couple of hours of work.
Solution
An Excel spreadsheet was created with its own fields to launch all variables, allowing a quick calculation with presentation of the conversions for the metric system and also with conversions of the metric system for other measurement systems.
Result
The purchasing manager is capable of concluding the operation in a couple of minutes, leaving him free time for other important activities. In addition to this productivity gain, the number of calculation errors has also been reduced, and now it is very rare.
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