Usually this is very hard because the tasks and the job often subtly shifts in somewhat unpredictable and unforeseen ways and there is no neat clean abstraction that you can just implement as an application. Too hererogeneous, too messy, too many exceptions. If you develop some clean elegant solution, next week there will be something that your shiny app doesn't allow and they'd have to submit a feature request or whatever.

In Excel, it's possible to just ad hoc adjust things and make it up as you go. It's not clean but very adaptable and flexible.