Microsoft Excel - I have a set of data that I would like translated into a dashboard with optimal usability.

Asked By Jessica Talbert on 13-May-15 06:05 PM
The set of data I have is sales by SKU (retail, so pieces of clothing) by week and the number of units sold in how many stores. I want to create a macro that takes that data and organizes it on a separate "dashboard" that my business partners can play with.

The data needs to be organized by the Sku, which months the sku sold in, and the # of stores it sold in. For our purposes, we have a name for each month, because we call them "flows", such as Summer 1, Summer 2 Summer 3 (May, June, July). We also have names for the # of stores, we call them store groups. If something sold in 150 stores, the store group would be L1, 110 stores it would be L2, 84 stores it would be L3.

I'd like for our business partners to copy paste the data into a tool, and have the dashboard display the information by department (such as mens denim- would have a certain number of SKU data underneath it), and show how many skus sold in each month, and what level (store group) it sold in.

I have an example of one someone else built but their code is buggy. I want to recreate.
Harry Boughen replied to Jessica Talbert on 14-May-15 10:13 PM
Hello Jessica,
What you are asking is quite a task and almost impossible to assist without actual data and layouts and existing code.
You might be better to start from scratch and I would recommend that you have a look at this page
http://www.chandoo.org/wp/excel-dashboards/
https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&ved=0CCEQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fchandoo.org%2Fwp%2Fexcel-dashboards%2F&ei=_VBVVdv2DpPX7Abh9YKACg&usg=AFQjCNFLms245vl5-Zanslv43sgSxWLsXg&bvm=bv.93564037,d.ZGU
to get you started.
If you have some specific problems with code or formulae then by all means ask with sufficient detail and perhaps we can help.
Alternatively, be prepared to pay somebody to produce the application that you require.
Regards
Harry