Designing a Sales dashboard in Excel
DESCRIPTION
Use Excel to analyze the sales based on various product categories.
Description:
The dataset in file E-Commerce Dashboard dataset.xlsx contains sales data for different product
categories. The following are the features in the dataset:
Order ID Unique Order ID of a product
Order Date Order Placement Date
Ship Date Shipment Date of the placed order
Aging Used to Create Histogram Bin
Ship Mode Shipment mode of placed order
Product Category Product Category
Product Name of the Product
Sales Sales Amount
Quantity The amount or number of a material
Discount A deduction from the usual cost of something
Profit A financial advantage or benefit
Shipping Cost The amount required to ship the placed order
Order Priority Precedence of placed order
Customer ID Unique Customer ID
Customer Name Name of the Customer
City Unique City Name
State Unique State Name
Country Unique Country Name
Region Especially the part of a country
Months The month of placing the order
The following project tasks are required to be performed in Excel:
Use the saved Sample E-Commerce database
Prepare a table of Sales and Profit month-wise in a working sheet
Prepare the sales table region-wise in the working sheet
Create User Control Combo box for Product Category
Create a Column Chart of the month-wise table and region-wise table
Link the table with a combo box
Create a dashboard
Tools required: Microsoft Excel, Data Analysis Add-in
Expected Deliverables: Design a sales dashboard that analyzes the sales based on various
product categories. The company wants to add user control for product category so that users can
select a category and can see the trend month-wise and product-wise accordingly.
Project Task Screenshot and codes -
Prepare a table of Sales and Profit month-wise in a working sheet
Sales - =SUMIFS('Sales Data'!$H:$H,'Sales Data'!$U:$U,Working!$B4,'Sales Data'!$F:$F,$R$3)
Profit - =SUMIFS('Sales Data'!$K:$K,'Sales Data'!$U:$U,Working!$B4,'Sales Data'!$F:$F,$R$3)
Prepare the sales table region-wise in the working sheet
Sales - =SUMIFS('Sales Data'!$H:$H,'Sales Data'!$T:$T,Working!$F4,'Sales Data'!$F:$F,$R$3)
Create User Control Combo box for Product Category
Link the table with a combo box
Create a Column Chart of the month-wise table and region-wise table
Monthly Profit & Sales - =SERIES(Working!$D$3,Working!$B$4:$B$15,Working!$D$4:$D$15,2)
Regional Sales - =SERIES(,Working!$F$4:$F$16,Working!$G$4:$G$16,1)
Create a dashboard