Sales Insights (Brick & mortar business) Data Analysis Project

1. SQL database dump is in db_dump.sql file above. Download db_dump.sql file to your local computer and import it.

Data Analysis Using SQL

1. Show all customer records

   SELECT * FROM customers;

2. Show total number of customers

   SELECT count(*) FROM customers;

3. Show transactions for Chennai market (market code for chennai is Mark001

   SELECT * FROM transactions where market_code='Mark001';

4. Show distrinct product codes that were sold in chennai

   SELECT distinct product_code FROM transactions where market_code='Mark001';

5. Show transactions where currency is US dollars

   SELECT * from transactions where currency="USD"

6. Show transactions in 2020 join by date table

   SELECT transactions.*, date.* FROM transactions JOIN date ON transactions.order_date=date.date where date.year=2020;

7. Show total revenue in year 2020,

   SELECT SUM(transactions.sales_amount) FROM transactions JOIN date ON transactions.order_date=date.date where date.year=2020 and transactions.currency="INR" or transactions.currency="USD";

8. Show total revenue in year 2020, January Month,

   SELECT SUM(transactions.sales_amount) FROM transactions JOIN date ON transactions.order_date=date.date where date.year=2020 and and date.month_name="January" and (transactions.currency="INR" or transactions.currency="USD");

9. Show total revenue in year 2020 in Chennai

   SELECT SUM(transactions.sales_amount) FROM transactions JOIN date ON transactions.order_date=date.date where date.year=2020 and transactions.market_code="Mark001";

Data Analysis Using Power BI

Key Insight Dashboard

• Sales Overview: This dashboard provides a high-level overview of sales performance, including total sales, sales by region, and sales by product.
• Sales Trend: This dashboard shows the trend of sales over time.
• Top Customers: This dashboard shows the top 5 customers by total sales.

DAX Formula Used to create norm_amount column for USD Currency

= Table.AddColumn(sales_transactions, "sales_amount_normlized", each if [currency] = "USD" then [sales_amount]*75 else [sales_amount])

Profit Analysis Dashboard

• as you can see we dive deep into 2020 year to see the trend and all other profit analysis
• it provides other dimensions analysis for the Revenue by showing the % of each region's customer and market besides the % of Profit Contribution from the Total Profit

DAX Formula Used to create norm_amount column for USD Currency

• Revenue Contribution % = DIVIDE([Revenue],CALCULATE([Revenue],ALL('sales products'),ALL('sales customers'),ALL('sales markets')))
• Profit Margin Contribution % = DIVIDE([Total profit Margin],CALCULATE([Total profit Margin],ALL('sales products'),ALL('sales customers'),ALL('sales markets')))
• Profit Margin % = DIVIDE([Total profit Margin],[Revenue],0)

Performance Insights Dashboard

• as you can see we analyze the performance of 2020 to see the difference between this year and the last one through a combo chart
• More important is identifying every market in which region contributes to our lose in profit

DAX Formula Used to create norm_amount column for USD Currency

• Revenue LY = CALCULATE([Revenue],SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR('sales date'[date]))
• Profit Target = GENERATESERIES(-0.05, 0.15, 0.01)
• Profit Target Value = SELECTEDVALUE('Profit Target'[Profit Target])
• Target Diff = [Profit Margin %] - 'Profit Target'[Profit Target Value]

Resources Download

• 3 dashboards in one PDF here
• Power BI file here but, you must install the sales database as mentioned above to work on your PC.