30 Minute Problem solving using Excel: Maximizing Profit - a Practical How-to for non-Gurus

Precision ordering, scheduling, and cost controls can help to reduce the percentage of businesses that fail. This book utilizes a "here with you" how-to approach to provide a framework that will allow the business decision maker to rapidly improve decision making using Linear Programming Techniques.

This book is not intended to overwhelm the user with formulas and reference material. Rather it provides real world examples, and shows how construct a simple decision making spreadsheet. It then shows how to change it for other situations.

This volume focuses on product mixes, such as how many of what item to build or sell. Many times, the most commonly selected answer (build the item with the highest margin, or lowest labor cost) is not the profit maximizing choice.