Google-sheets – Help with a Google Sheets formula for Inventory Tracking

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Wanted to get some help with finding the correct formula to input into a cell in google sheets.

I need to determine when we are getting low on product and when it is recommended to order more.

I have everything except the last part. I need a formula that basically says this… If cell A contain a "-" then cell B outputs with "Order more"

Where a negative number would require the words order more to come up.

Secondly, another formula similar to the idea above except for low inventory. Like, if Cell A is a value between 0-100 then Cell B outputs "Keep Watch"

Lastly, how could you combine these two ideas??? So anything under 0 gets the text "order more" and anything between 0-100 gets the text "Keep Watch"

Is this possible?

Thanks in advance!

Best Answer

Try =if(A2<0,"Order More",IF(AND(A2 >=1, A2 <= 100),"Keep Watch",""))

Partial short answer

The formula in I4 has some syntax errors

Use of the wrong quotation character
Use of equal sign after commas

Also, the formulas in I3 and I4 have some programming errors:

Wrong references
"Unnecessary complexity"

Explanation

Syntax errors

Quotation marks

Modern applications use a large number of characters some of them are visually very similar like "(U+0022 QUOTATION MARK), ” (U+201D RIGHT DOUBLE QUOTATION MARK) and ʺ(U+02BA MODIFIER LETTER DOUBLE PRIME) but for technical purposes, like enclosing strings in spreadsheet formulas, " (U+0022 QUOTATION MARK) should be used. It's worth to say that some text processors like Microsoft Word could automatically replace " by ” so when using and external application as a helper to write complex formulas the related feature should be turned off.

Equal sign

The equal sign could be used as an operator in spreadsheet formulas at the beginning of a formula or as a comparison operator, but not after the function arguments separator (comma or semicolon, according to the spreadsheet locale settings)

Programming errors

Yes, writing a spreadsheet formula makes people to be programmers but usually they are called analysts or just spreadsheet users.

Wrong references

The formula in I4 include references to columns that don't exists (M4,K4,S4,L4)

Unnecessary complexity

The formulas in I3 and I4 use COUNTIF to do a comparisons and the add operator to check if all the required conditions are met. The same could be done in a simpler way by using comparison operators and the boolean functions. While complex ways to do things could work, when something fails, one thing to try is to reduce the complexity.

The following formula is equivalent to the I3 formula but "simpler" (from a "programming" point of view):

=IF(AND(D3<"9:31",E3>65,F3>65,G3>11,H3<"10:01"),"P","F")

Google-sheets – Complicated formula nesting issue in Google Spreadsheets pt2

The formula used to correctly display the data is as follows:

=IF(B3=ʺEODʺ,IF(AND(D3<ʺ12:30ʺ,E3>50,F3>50,G3>6,H3<ʺ12:30ʺ),ʺPʺ,ʺFʺ),IF(B3=ʺSOʺ,IF(AND(D3<ʺ12:30ʺ,E3>50,F3>50,G3>10,H3<ʺ10:30ʺ),ʺPʺ,ʺFʺ),IF(B3=ʺSBʺ,IF(AND(D3<ʺ13:00ʺ,E3>50,F3>50,G3>6,H3<ʺ12:00ʺ),ʺPʺ,ʺFʺ),IF(B3=ʺNDʺ,IF(AND(D3<ʺ12:30ʺ,E3>50,F3>50,G3>6,H3<ʺ12:30ʺ),ʺPʺ,ʺFʺ),IF(B3=ʺAWʺ,IF(AND(D3<ʺ12:00ʺ,E3>42,F3>50,G3>4,H3<ʺ12:00ʺ),ʺPʺ,ʺFʺ))))))

It should be noted that the formula was not typed by me personally, it was added to a copy of my sample spreadsheet. When attempting to copy and paste from the copy into my spreadsheet, there was an unknown error with the transfer and although the formula appeared to be written identically, it would not work.

I hand typed it character by character and it then worked correctly.
I don't have an explanation for this but should anyone run into a similar issue, there's the fix.