The document outlines a business intelligence solution for the sales and distribution domain, targeting top management with a proposed dashboard and reporting tools using Power BI. It discusses key visual types, challenges in solution design, and future expansions including customer and employee sales analytics. The presentation concludes with a demonstration and a Q&A session.

1. Presented by
- Renuka Fernando
- Jayathma Chathurangani
- Piyushani Sewwandi
Facilitator - Mr. Dinesh Priyankara
Sales First - BI Solution
Software Engineering Teaching Unit
Faculty of Science
University of Kelaniya
Sri Lanka

2. OUTLINE
● Business Requirements
● Proposed Solution
● BI Platform
● BI Visual Types
● Challenges
● Future Expansions
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3. BUSINESS REQUIREMENTS
➔ Domain - Sales and Distribution
➔ Audience - Top Management and Sales Department
➔ Target - Sales
● Year to date
● By Year
● By Month
● By product category
● By product sub category
● By location
- Cost (Production and Logistics)
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4. PROPOSED SOLUTION
Dashboard
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5. PROPOSED SOLUTION (Contd..)
Reports
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6. PROPOSED SOLUTION (Contd..)
Reports
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7. BI PLATFORM - POWER BI
● Visual functionality and presentation aspect
● Security and reliability
● Printing and exporting formats
● Whether they offer actionable KPIs and dashboards
● Customization capability
● Does integration with the solution require lot of resources, time and effort?
● Whether it is free or not and if a commercial tool,
● Is the technical support and documentation provided with the tool is satisfactory
● Time and cost required for training
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8. BI VISUAL TYPES - DASHBOARD
● Cards with KPI - YTD sales for the current year
● Clustured Column Chart - Sales amount along with last year sales amount by month
● Basic Map - Sales amount by country
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9. BI VISUAL TYPES - REPORTS
● Cards with KPI - YTD sales for the current year in annual sales, YTD
sales for the current month in monthly report
● Donut Chart - Sales by product category
● Clustered Column Chart - Last year and current year sales by month, Sales
amount sales YTD and Sales YTD by month
● Basic Map - Sales amount by Country
● Stacked Column Chart - Sales, total product cost and tax amount by currency, &
Sales, total product cost and tax amount by day
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10. CHALLENGES
● Solution design - Must Have, Want to Have and Nice to Have
● Selecting the visual types
● Collaborative working
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11. FUTURE EXPANSIONS
● Sales amount by customer location with customer details
● The employee sales region by employee name
● Sales amount by shipping company and date
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12. Demonstration
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13. Questions
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Thank You