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Business Summary

Provides detail on how inventory, price and assortment changes drive market shifts. This dashboard will guide you to the best optimization tool to sharpen your insights further.

Business Summary Dashboard

Business Summary Basics

How to Read

This waterfall chart shows how item price, units sold, new items, deprecated items, and stockouts affect overall value sold. The impact of each of these categories is compared to the prior time period (last month, last year, last quarter, etc).

How to Use

This chart illuminates why sales may be up or down for a given time period by breaking down total sales down into distinct factors. By filtering for categories, brands, or regions relevant to your business you can identify what factors (price changes, lost sales due to stockouts, etc) are essential to your growth.

Key Metrics

Price Impact

Quantifies the impact of item price on $ sales (only includes items present in both comparison periods) and normalizes for the impact of changes in price that comes from assortment changes

Quantity Impact

Measures how much units sold changes affected total sales amount (controlling for price)

New SKUs

The sales impact from products that were not present in the previous time period.

Discontinued SKUs

The negative sales impact from products not present in the current time period that were present in the previous time period

Lost Sales Due to Stock outs

Estimates sales value lost due to being out of stock.

Other Impacts

Captures any changes that are not attributable to any of the above drivers.

ASP

The average selling price of an item

Methodology: ASP = $ Sales / Units Sold

Median ASP

The median ASP of a group of items