Return Matching Data from Most Recent Date

[Tubolard]

Hello,

In my sample workbook I would like to take the serial number from my first worksheet (Column A) and attach the last location from my second worksheet (Column B). I want to be able to check the whole range for matches and return only the location with the most recent last order date.

Worksheet 1

Serial Number	Last Location
1010
1020
1030
1040

Work sheet 2 

Serial Number	Last Location	Last Order Date
1010	A	01/05/2023
1020	B	5/20/2023
1020	C	7/15/2023
1030	A	1/15/2023
1040	D	01/05/2023
1010	F	8/20/2023

If I had the correct formula I would return 

Serial Number	Last Location
1010	F
1020	C
1030	A
1040	D

I thought I would achieve this with Maxifs or a combination of Filter and Max but I have had no luck. Not sure what the best approach would be here for a larger sample size. Any help would be appreciated, thank you!

[#2 · Accepted solution]

@Tubolard 

In B2 on Worksheet 1:

=FILTER('Worksheet 2'!$B$2:$B$7,('Worksheet 2'!$C$2:$C$7=MAXIFS('Worksheet 2'!$C$2:$C$7,'Worksheet 2'!$A$2:$A$7,A2))*('Worksheet 2'!$A$2:$A$7=A2))

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=INDEX('Worksheet 2'!$B$2:$B$7, MATCH(1, ('Worksheet 2'!$C$2:$C$7=MAXIFS('Worksheet 2'!$C$2:$C$7, 'Worksheet 2'!$A$2:$A$7, A2))*('Worksheet 2'!$A$2:$A$7=A2), 0))

[#3]

@Tubolard 

If your data always has the dates from old to newest at the bottom in sheet 2, you could use XLOOKUP and have it search last-to-first:

=XLOOKUP(A2:A5,SerialNumber,LastLocation,,,-1)

[#4]

This variation is able to handle a situation where the dates in Sheet2 may not be in 'perfect' order.

=LET(
    sorted, SORT(data, {1, 3}),
    SN, TAKE(sorted, , 1),
    LastLoc, INDEX(sorted, , 2),
    XLOOKUP(A2:A5, SN, LastLoc, , , -1)
)

[#5]

Thank you! This was the approach I was looking to take but ended up unsuccessful with. Your response works well!

[#6]

Thank you Patrick, both of your responses would work in this scenario as well!