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Anonymous
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Scenario planning for purchasing from different suppliers

Hi,

I am trying to work out what total purchasing costs will be depending on which supplier I purchase from. This means that the purchase price isn't in the fact table like it would normally be in a calculated column. There is a different product price for each supplier.

 

So the tables I have are:

- a product table with each product in once, with columns for product category and size

- a price table linked to the product table with the price of each product for each supplier

- a purchase table linked to the product table for how much I need to purchase of each product

 

I'm wanting to do a row by row calculation as if it were a calculated column but in a measure, with the calculation being:

supplier's product price * quantity

 

Does anyone have any tips on how they have dealt with this issue before?

 

Many thanks,

 

Paddy

2 ACCEPTED SOLUTIONS

@Anonymous 

Please see these results

 

Screenshot 2020-10-23 230153.png

 

Here is the PBIX you can Download

 

Hope this helps

Thanks

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Hi,

You may download my PBI file from here.

Hope this helps.

Untitled.png


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

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Ashish_Mathur
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Hi,

Share some data and show the expected result.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
ChandeepChhabra
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@Anonymous - Quick Question - How would you decide the price when each supplier can have a different price for the product. So when you say

Cost = Qty * Price (which price is it?)

 

Unless you have the bifocation of purhcase quantity by supplier, there is ambiguity in solving this problem. 

Anonymous
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Hi @Ashish_Mathur @ChandeepChhabra 

Many thanks for your replies. I am trying to see which supplier I should source certain groups of bottles of sauce from. The product groups are 'size' and 'recipe', so I want to see the impact of sourcing either a whole size of bottle from each supplier.

Fact table:

Product

Purchase Quantity

1

100

2

50

3

200

4

300

5

500

6

200

7

20

Product Table:

Product

Size

Recipe

1

125g

Lemon

2

125g

Sweet

3

125g

Hot

4

250g

Lemon

5

250g

Sweet

6

250g

Hot

7

500g

Lemon

Product Prices table:

ProductSupplierPrice
1SUP1£5.10
1SUP2£5.50
1SUP3£4.20
2SUP1£4.90
2SUP2£4.50
2SUP3£5.60
3SUP1£3.60
3SUP2£3.20
3SUP3£5.00
4SUP1£6.00
4SUP2£5.30
4SUP3£5.20
5SUP1£6.50
5SUP2£5.70
5SUP3£5.00
6SUP1£4.90
6SUP2£5.20
6SUP3£4.30
7SUP1£7.50
7SUP2£7.20
7SUP3£8.40

 

Then it would come to the pivot for the results by supplier and receipe/size

 SUP1 SUP2 SUP3 
 Total QauntityTotal CostTotal Qauntity Total CostTotal Qauntity Total Cost
Hot400£1,700.00400£1,680.00400£1,860.00
Lemon420£2,460.00420£2,284.00420£2,148.00
Sweet550£3,495.00550£3,075.00550£2,780.00

It is possible to merge the price and fact tables so that I have a calculated column like below, but this wouldn't be the best solution long term as I might add other elements to the data model such as calendar, and I would keep needing to merge tables together.

ProductSizeProductSizeRecipeSupplierPriceQuantityTotal Cost
1125g1125gLemonSUP1£5.10100£510.00
1125g1125gLemonSUP2£5.50100£550.00
1125g1125gLemonSUP3£4.20100£420.00

Any help would be much appreciated. Many thanks, Paddy

Hi,

You may download my PBI file from here.

Hope this helps.

Untitled.png


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/
Anonymous
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Hi @Ashish_Mathur yes this works great, many thanks for your help, I appreciate it.

Paddy

You are welcome.


Regards,
Ashish Mathur
http://www.ashishmathur.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/excelenthusiasts/

@Anonymous 

Please see these results

 

Screenshot 2020-10-23 230153.png

 

Here is the PBIX you can Download

 

Hope this helps

Thanks

Anonymous
Not applicable

Hi @ChandeepChhabra , that works great, thank you for your help.

Paddy

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