Individual Assignment for Jayant You are a new business analyst at Global Bike Inc. You are responsible for detecting any warning signs, trends, or indication that the business is changing. In order to do so, you know that you first need to understand what has happened in the past. You have been provided with data regarding sales and cost of goods sold (COGS) for the years 2011 – 2014. You would like to explore the data using data visualizations to determine trends and patterns in the data. For each question, please provide your answer along with necessary explanation & screen capture of your evidence. 1. 2. 3. 4.
Launch SAP Lumira (NOT SAP Predictive Analytics) Click on File, “Import to Folder”. Select “Jayant” file you downloaded from this email. Once confirmation message (“Document successfully imported”) displayed, Click “Yes” to open the file. 5. Go to the Visualize tab. Question 1: Seasonality at GBI? Use line chart. (30 points) a) Is there any seasonality at GBI? (15 points) b) What is the day of the month with the highest sales? What are the revenues on this day? (15 points) Question 2: Gross Margin ratio? Use Column chart. (30 points) a) Can you tell which customer has higher gross margin ratio? (10 points) b) Which sales org has the lowest gross margin ratio? (10 points) c) What, if anything does the additional variable tell us? (10 points) Question 3: Use Tree Map for Question 3.a and 3.b (25 points) a) Which US customer has highest gross margin? (15 points) b) Which US customer has the highest net sales? Is this what you would expect? (10 points) Question 4: What does the animation tell you about the relationship of all these variables by month? Use Bubble chart. (15 points) In order to understand how the various measures change over time, create an animated bubble chart by doing the following: Choose bubble chart. Add “GM in USD” to the X-axis. Add “Disc in USD” to the Y-axis. Add “Net Sales in USD “to the Size. Add “Customer” to Legend Color. Add “Month” to Animation. Run your animation by clicking on the play icon.