Multi-Dimensional Reporting

Case Study: Multi-dimensional

Reporting with PivotTables

Product MOTIVATION PREREQUISITES

Microsoft Excel You are a manager of a several None
sales organisations and one of
Level your responsibilities is HINTS
Undergraduate/Graduate monitoring and managing sales No special hints
Beginner activities. You have a number of
OLTP systems to assist with the
Focus recording of day-to-day
BI Reporting transactions.

Author At the end of each month, you

Klaus Freyburger are provided with a report which
Lorraine Gardiner displays each sale. The format
of the report is illustrated below.
Version Although this report provides a
2.0 lot of information, the
information is not in a format
that can easily assist in the type
of decisions you are required to
make. You have decided to
investigate PivotTables as means
of producing more useful
reports.
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Multi-Dimensional Reporting with PivotTables

Task 1: Perform multi-dimensional reporting in Microsoft Excel.

Short Description: The purpose of this exercise is to create a PivotTable in Microsoft
Excel to analyse the data using multi-dimensional reporting. A number of multi-
dimensional navigational techniques will be introduced.

C1.1
Open the Microsoft Excel File, BicycleForPivotV01.xls.

C1.2
Create a PivotTable to determine the total revenue for material groups in each sales
organisation.

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Take screen shot here. It should look like the below results:
Result:

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C1.3
Slice: restrict to internet sales.

Take screen shot here. It should look like the below results:
Result:

C1.4
Drill-Down: show all products for mountain bikes.

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Take screen shot here. It should look like the below results:

Result:

C1.5
Remove Drill-Down for material.

Dice: restrict to first quarter of 2007.

Hint: Add field Date to rows first…

…and use grouping.

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Take screen shot here. It should look like the below results:

Result:

C1.6
Remove all filters.

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Which product provided the most Contribution Margin Ratio?

Hint: Contribution Margin Ratio is defined as Percentage of Contribution Margin
over Net Sales, where Net Sales is Revenue – Discount and Contribution Margin is
Net Sales – Cost Of Good Sold.

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Answer the above question: Which product provided the most Contribution Margin
Ratio?
Take screen shot here. It should look like the below results:

Result:

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