Business Analytics With Excel
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E-Commerce Sales Dashboard
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DESCRIPTION

Background 

E-commerce is fast gaining ground as an accepted and used business paradigm. More and more business houses are implementing
web sites providing functionality for performing commercial transactions over the web. It is reasonable to say that the
process of shopping on the web is becoming commonplace.

Objective

An Online E-Commerce Company wants to design a Sales dashboard to analyze the sales based on various product categories. 
The company wants to add user control for product category, so users can select a category and can see the trend month-wise
and product-wise accordingly.  

Domain:  E-Commerce

Dataset Description

We will be using E-Commerce Dashboard.xlsx Dataset attached.

* E-Commerce Dashboard which covers Orders data for various Product Category;
Within this file you will find the following fields:

Field 	                                          Description

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	                                      Obtain 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 
Segment	Product                               Segment(i.e.Home Office/Corporate/Consumer etc.)
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

Analysis Tasks

Use the Saved Sample – E-Commerce database.    
     Create a histogram to analyze a number of shipping days.
     Prepare a table of Sales and Profit month-wise in one sheet, named it as ‘Working Sheet’.    
     Prepare the sales table region-wise in the working sheet.    
     Create a User Control Combo box for Product Category.
     Create Column Chart of a month-wise table and region-wise table
     Link the table with combo box.    
     Create a dashboard.
     
Sample Step Create Histogram for Shipping Days(Aging)
To create a histogram, click the Data Tab, Under Analysis Group (Right Corner), Click Data Analysis. 
Now, select Histogram and click ok. A histogram dialog box will appear.

In the histogram dialog box, first, click the Label’s Checkbox as we have labels in our data. 
After that, In the Input reference box select the range (“Sales Data!D1: D51291”) of our data and in the 
Bin Range Reference box select (“Working!K3: K7”).In the Output section, select range “Working!N3” for a binning table,
click Histogram checkbox and then ok.

Note: Sample output is given, please make it a meticulous as per the project statement.