Situation
A manufacturing operations team consolidated production figures from many departmental Excel files into one weekly pack. File layouts drifted, missing sheets were common, and the compile sat with one or two people who knew the informal rules. Training others on formulas did not stick when source formats kept changing.
Approach
A representative approach is an Excel VBA (or Office Script) consolidation that pulls agreed source folders, validates required sheets and columns, writes a formatted pack with charts, logs exceptions, and optionally emails the result. Source owners keep their workbooks; the automation owns the merge contract.
Expected operational changes
Implementation scenario. Not presented as a verified client success metric pack.
- Weekly pack generation becomes a repeatable run instead of a personal rebuild
- Validation failures surface missing or malformed sources before distribution
- Analysts spend time on exceptions and interpretation, not copy-paste