Microsoft Excel is a simple but powerful spreadsheet software program that lets small businesses project, track and review information, including manufacturing data. Excel lets you create custom ...

The Aberdeen Group says that 92 percent of all manufacturers use spreadsheets for production planning and scheduling. I spoke with See’s Candy, a chocolate manufacturer with about 200 wholly-owned ...

You’d think that an industry like manufacturing had its own software stack, but in a lot of cases, a huge amount of getting-things-made is managed through Excel spreadsheets. The thing is, ...