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Niko
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8 years ago
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Visualizing warehouse and product structure

Hi everyone! I'm reasonably new for powerBI and I've been thinking if I could model our companys warehouse more convenient way with powerBI. I've attached couple pictures how does it look when pul...
  • fhill's avatar
    8 years ago

    For me, the confusion is how you have your assembled parts and component parts in the same table for QoH.  This isn't impossible to work with, but I had to create some fake names below (A, A01, A02) to help me seperate the data for visuals.

     

    Screen Shot 1 - Your two raw tables:

     

     

    Screen shot 2:  You have to define a Relationship very specificically to tell Power BI how to account for the duplcication of data between the two tables.  Part has to link to Com_Part with a 1:Many relationship!  **** This is the key to all other data analysis. ****

     

    Screen Shot 3:  Now you can create a table with Part and Com_Part and Qoh from the 2 different tables and Power BI knows how the 'Relate' to each other:

       

     

     

    Screen Shot 4:  With the Quantity Part Assembly value changing sub-part by sub-part my first thought of how to use the data was to look for parts with possibly a HIGH QoH, but because you need X of them to make a Bigger Part, there might be a actionable value to looking at the number of Bigger Parts you "could assemble" with your QOH of Sub-Parts.  

     

    Potential Assembly = SUM(QOH[QoH]) / SUM(Part_Breakdown[Qty_P_Ass])

     

     

    Screen Shot 5:  Finally trying to look at the bar graphs you requested.  You can 'stack' you Axis now with Part and Com_Part to get drill thru, but I wasnt' able to make it look like I think you had intended.  Play with your values from here and see if you can get anything actionable out of your real data!

     

    Hope this helps,

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