Merging two Excel files of different size into one

@abhijeet_tiwari wrote:

Hello Everyone,

Recently, I started my short term internship in a Logistics company (it involves shipment and transportation of mails from source to destination all over the world) as a Data Scientist in Paris.

They gave me a Data set in the form of Excel sheet, related to company’s Distribution department. It has two Excel files (worksheets) with the following attributes (columns),

Excel file 1: Decision Criteria

Distribution Country
Network
IMPC Codes
Channel
Distribution Partner
Service Level
Transaction Product
Transaction Format
Product Name
Format

Total number of rows: 2078

Excel file 2: Distribution Cost
Destination Country
Logistics Provider Id
Product Name Id
FormatId
Currency
WeightFrom
WeightTo
CostsPerItem
Cost Per Kg

Total number of rows: 6760

The task is to integrate or merge both the files into one so that if someone want to know the Cost (which is in Excel file 2) of a certain shipment (shipments details in Excel file 1) can obtain an optimized result in the end, i;e the Cost of the shipment.

The problem I am facing;

• The size of both the files are not same.

• If I simply copy and paste the columns from Excel file 2 to Excel file 1 the result would not be optimized.

• I am new in this field of Data Science.

Kindly help me with this by giving some guidelines so that I wont lose my confidence to become a Data Scientist like you. I would be thankful of you.

Please feel free to ask me any question related this problem. I can personally provide all the information and resources that I have.

Thank you.
An aspiring Data Scientist

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