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I'd like to multiply quantity of units produced or forecasted for a particular month by the appropriate standard hours - the result measure will be called 'Earned Hours'.
Normally a sumx and related formula should work, but the thing is that we have to apply current standard hours to future months in the formula.
Table 1: Production_Forecast
Scenario | Period | Model | Quantity Produced or Planned |
Actual | 201901 | A | 5 |
Actual | 201901 | B | 6 |
… | … | … | … |
Actual | 201911 | A | 3 |
Actual | 201911 | B | 4 |
Actual | 201912 | A | 7 |
Actual | 201912 | B | 8 |
Forecast | 202001 | A | 5 |
Forecast | 202001 | B | 4 |
… | … | … | … |
Table 2: Standard Hours
Period | Model | Department | Standard Hours |
201901 | A | Backshop | 5 |
201901 | A | Final Assembly | 2 |
201901 | B | Backshop | 6 |
201901 | B | Final Assembly | 1 |
… | … | … | |
201912 | A | Backshop | 7 |
201912 | A | Final Assembly | 2.5 |
201912 | B | Backshop | 8 |
201912 | B | Final Assembly | 3 |
So what is the result you are looking for?
The measure should add results from two calculations:
1) For months tagged as "Actual" - multiply quantity produced by the related hours for particular month (Excel sumproduct formula): quantity from Jan 2019 times standard hours from Jan 2019, quantity from Feb 2019 times standard hours from Feb 2019
2) For months tagged as "Forecast" - multiply quantities from all months by the last available standard hours (Dec 2019 standard hours in the example shown)
Here is the model:
and PBIX file: Earned Hours.pbix
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