Reporting analytics

Case Study: Inventory Analysis in Tableau

Iason Prassides

Content Developer, DataCamp

Analysis workflow

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Case Study: Inventory Analysis in Tableau

Objectives

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  • Which items would be best for renewing or increasing inventory?
  • How would you understand this by category?
  • What is the influence of the countries?
Case Study: Inventory Analysis in Tableau

Preliminary results

  • Glow a Flytrap leads in sales
  • Doughnut lip gloss sells faster
  • Set of 6 soldier skittles has increased in sales
  • All three belong to class A

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Case Study: Inventory Analysis in Tableau

Telling a story

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Focus your presentation on good inventory management practices:

  • Smart purchasing
  • Stock management
Case Study: Inventory Analysis in Tableau

Building a dashboard

Example of a finished dashboard created for Acropolis Retail.

Case Study: Inventory Analysis in Tableau

Dataset update

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Case Study: Inventory Analysis in Tableau

Next steps

  Image of a treemap data visual showing the total revenue for 2021 by category.

Image of a column chart data visual showing the total revenue for 2021 by ABC class.

Case Study: Inventory Analysis in Tableau

Let's practice!

Case Study: Inventory Analysis in Tableau

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