topic Re: SKU Distribution Trend? in DAX Commands and Tips

SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:15:06 GMT

Hi all!

I'm working with a client with about 4,000 SKUs in a given year. However, it is a very seasonal business, so only about 1,500 SKUs are in store at any given time. What I need to know is how often the SKU distribution changes - every day, every week, every month? Etc.

My first thought was to do a distinct count of SKUs and then trend that over time, because it is unlikely I'll have exactly the same amount of SKUs each season. But that isn't perfect - ideally I'd have some kind of a matching function and let it tell me when it stops matching, but I'm not sure how to do that with that many SKUs. Any help is appreciated!

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:32:37 GMT

Thigs

Can you please calrify further: "ideally I'd have some kind of a matching function and let it tell me when it stops matching"

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:37:22 GMT

Sure thing, and thanks for the help!

Ideally, I'd have some kind of function that would look on a specific day, say day 2, and see how many of the SKUs are the exact same as in the previous day (day 1). If more than 90% of the SKUs were a match, it would return something like "match", if less than 90% were a match it would return something like "Change". Then I would calculate on average how many changes happened during a period, say during 90 days.

While I know there are matching formulas, I'm not sure how to make one that only looks at the previous day, and I'm not sure how to tell it "hey, if it matches 90%, we're good".

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 18:51:15 GMT

Thigs

It depends. Let's say we're looking at day level, then we can retrieve the VALUES of the SKU's of the current date.
Suppose the dates are continuous (there are other solutions if not) then the previous date would be the current date - 1. We can use this date to CALCULATE the VALUES of SKU's of the previous date. Then simply we can DIVIDE the COUNTROWS of the INTERSECT between the two VALUES over the COUNTOWS of VALUES of the current date. Would that make sense to you?

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 19:06:20 GMT

Thigs

Her is an example

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/DAX-Commands-and-Tips/Count-of-carried-Keys-Stories-from-one-sprint-to-another-sprint/m-p/2461871#M66672

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:12:54 GMT

Hi! Ok, this looks helpful but I'm still confused.

I created a summary table with the date and SKU of each. Now, for this formula, do I need to make a column so it iterates, or a measure?

To me, it seems like I'd do -

Match Percent = CALCULATE(VALUES('SKU Distribution Table'[SKUs]),'SKU Distribution Table'[Date Only] = DATEADD('SKU Distribution Table'[Date Only] -1)

Or something like that to get the values of the date prior.

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Mon, 18 Apr 2022 21:42:22 GMT

Thigs

I hope by summary table you mean table visual. Then you can create a measure. To retrieve the table of previous SKU's you need to use CALCULATETABLE.

DATEADD might not work being time intelligence function therefore you can use

CALCULATETABLE(VALUES('SKU Distribution Table'[SKUs]),'SKU Distribution Table'[Date Only] = MAX('SKU Distribution Table'[Date Only]) -1)

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:35:20 GMT

I'm getting this error -

Here is a screenshot of my table -

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 14:39:26 GMT

Thigs

You have added a column. Go back to the query editor and send some screenshots. It should not a problem to fix it.

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:30:57 GMT

SKU Count is just a count of SKUs - at first I thought that was what you meant by values.

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:40:41 GMT

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:43:03 GMT

Please filter out null

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 16:44:01 GMT

I just tried that, it didn't help

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 17:25:57 GMT

Thigs

Sorry I got distracted by something else.

What is the code you have used. Can you please share? It is a measure orca calculated column?

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 19:16:24 GMT

No worries, thank you SO much for your help!

Matching Percent = CALCULATETABLE(VALUES('SKU Distributions'[SKU]),'SKU Distributions'[Date Only] = MAX('SKU Distributions'[Date Only]) -1)

SKU is simply a list of SKUs. Date Only is a list of dates (with the time stamp removed). Should it be a calculated column? I figured it was a measure since each row in the table is not one date - each row is a date + a sku.

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 19:46:31 GMT

Thigs

This is only part of the complete measure

Matching Percent = VAR CurrentSKUs = VALUES ( 'SKU Distributions'[SKU] ) VAR PreviousSKUs = CALCULATETABLE ( VALUES ( 'SKU Distributions'[SKU] ), 'SKU Distributions'[Date Only] = MAX ( 'SKU Distributions'[Date Only] ) - 1 ) RETURN COUNTROWS ( INTERSECT ( PreviousSKUs, CurrentSKUs ) )

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Tue, 19 Apr 2022 20:35:10 GMT

Ok, so if I'm reading this correctly, this gives me the number of SKUs that are the same as the previous day. Then I need a percent, so I would divide by PreviousSKUs? Or do I need a new variable?

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 00:59:30 GMT

Yes no need for new measure

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

Thigs — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 13:18:12 GMT

I tried this this morning - it is back to giving me the error about not expecting multiple values. Here's what I changed the measure to (old one was working perfectly)

Matching Percent =

VAR CurrentSKUs =

VALUES ( 'SKU Distributions'[SKU] )

VAR PreviousSKUs =

CALCULATETABLE (

VALUES ( 'SKU Distributions'[SKU] ),

'SKU Distributions'[Date Only]

= MAX ( 'SKU Distributions'[Date Only] ) - 1

)

VAR NumRows = COUNTROWS ( INTERSECT ( PreviousSKUs, CurrentSKUs ) )

RETURN

DIVIDE(NumRows, PreviousSKUs)

Re: SKU Distribution Trend?

tamerj1 — Wed, 20 Apr 2022 14:36:47 GMT

You missed the COUNTROWS of "PreviousSKUs