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Same Store Sales metric
Hi everyone,
I am looking to analyze Same Store Sales in Power BI, but am having trouble getting it to work correctly (or know IF it is working correctly).
I would like to have this metric calculated in a measure that also allows dynamic time period selections (e.g., year, quarter, month). I have gotten as far as being able to evaluate current period performance vs the same period in the prior year using SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR in DAX, which does work dynamically with year/quarter/month slicers, however, I need to be able to calcuate the growth for only the sample set of customers that had sales in the period of the prior year. Ultimately I would like to visually plot the growth rates by period.
Below are the measures I am using, based off of the stored [Sales] numbers/data.
1) Measure to return Sales numbers from the same period in the prior year (SPPY):
[Sales SPPY] = CALCULATE([Sales],SAMEPERIODLASTYEAR([Date])
2) Measure to calculate the growth only for the customers that had Sales in the same period in the prior year:
[Sales Same Store SPPY Growth %] = CALCULATE(If([Sales SPPY] > 0,[Sales] / [Sales SPPY] - 1,BLANK()))
Has anyone else calculate this measure before, possibly in a different manner? I am evaluating against a large data set so I can't say for sure if the above calculating correctly. Any help or suggestions on how to approach this metric would be much appreciated!
Thanks!
2 Replies
- v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Hi JosephOutlaw,
I tested your formulas with my dataset, it worked fine. What could be the problems?
Best Regards!
Dale
- v-jiascu-msft
Microsoft Employee
Hi JosephOutlaw,
Could you please mark the proper answer as solution or share the solution if it's convenient for you? That will be a big help to the others.
Best Regards!
Dale