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Is there a simpler way to write this formula for calculating totals?

Hello fellow redditors!

I'm hoping you experts can tell me if I've gone the long way around with a formula, or if my solution is a reasonable one.

The Setup

Let's say I have a flavored ice cream company. I'm trying to figure out the total amount of cocoa I need for each product line.

I have one table, tbl_percentages, with the cocoa percentage required for each flavor:

Line Flavor Required Cocoa Percentage
Ice Cream Chocolate 44%
Ice Cream Chocochip 77%
Ice Cream Cookies n Cream 59%
Ice Cream Brownie 57%
Vegan Chocolate 72%
Vegan Chocochip 51%
Vegan Cookies n Cream 68%
Vegan Brownie 54%
Gluten Free Chocolate 66%
Gluten Free Chocochip 26%
Gluten Free Cookies n Cream 23%
Gluten Free Brownie 36%
Protein Chocolate 63%
Protein Chocochip 73%
Protein Cookies n Cream 27%
Protein Brownie 30%

Table formatting by ExcelToReddit

And another table, tbl_production, with my production orders:

Line Flavor Amount to produce
Vegan Chocolate 269
Vegan Chocochip 61
Vegan Cookies n Cream 149
Vegan Brownie 121
Gluten Free Chocolate 118
Gluten Free Chocochip 382
Gluten Free Cookies n Cream 15
Gluten Free Brownie 281
Gluten Free Chocolate 79
Gluten Free Chocochip 133
Gluten Free Cookies n Cream 171
Gluten Free Brownie 330
Vegan Chocolate 391
Vegan Chocochip 22
Vegan Cookies n Cream 384
Vegan Brownie 70
Vegan Chocolate 267
Vegan Chocochip 345
Vegan Cookies n Cream 299
Vegan Brownie 283
Ice Cream Chocolate 206
Ice Cream Chocochip 346
Ice Cream Cookies n Cream 129
Ice Cream Brownie 189
Protein Chocolate 55
Protein Chocochip 16
Protein Cookies n Cream 370
Protein Brownie 146
Ice Cream Chocolate 19
Ice Cream Chocochip 296
Ice Cream Cookies n Cream 126
Ice Cream Brownie 173
Protein Chocolate 64
Protein Chocochip 390
Protein Cookies n Cream 181
Protein Brownie 143
Protein Chocolate 234
Protein Chocochip 253
Protein Cookies n Cream 200
Protein Brownie 334
Ice Cream Chocolate 354
Ice Cream Chocochip 380
Ice Cream Cookies n Cream 108
Ice Cream Brownie 225
Vegan Chocolate 287
Vegan Chocochip 25
Vegan Cookies n Cream 271
Vegan Brownie 3
Gluten Free Chocolate 16
Gluten Free Chocochip 47
Gluten Free Cookies n Cream 245
Gluten Free Brownie 84
Vegan Chocolate 68
Vegan Chocochip 271
Vegan Cookies n Cream 223
Vegan Brownie 129

What I Did

I want the final calculation to automatically spill and update if I add new lines or flavors.

First, I created a sorted, unique list of the product lines:
=SORT(UNIQUE(tbl_percentages[Line]))

Then, I used this BYROW and LET formula to get the total cocoa for each line:

=BYROW(J14#, LAMBDA(r,

LET(

prodAmounts, FILTER(tbl_production[Amount to produce], tbl_production[Line]=r),

prodFlavors, FILTER(tbl_production[Flavor], tbl_production[Line]=r),

pctFlavors, FILTER(tbl_percentages[Flavor], tbl_percentages[Line]=r),

pctValues, FILTER(tbl_percentages[Required Cocoa Percentage], tbl_percentages[Line]=r),

percentages, XLOOKUP(prodFlavors, pctFlavors, pctValues),

SUMPRODUCT(prodAmounts, percentages)

)

))

It works, but is there a simpler way to do this? I feel like there might be a more direct approach I'm missing.

Thanks for taking a look

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