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Hello,
I am struggling with a tables totals. I am not sure the correct way to calculate this so both the line and total values are correct.
I have two tables; 'Item Ledger' which stores the cost and 'Capacity Ledger' which stores the waste detail.
I am trying to correctly determine the cost of scrap values when they are categorized as "Damages" or "Overages". To do that I am summing the cost of the entire amount [Cost Amount Actual] and dividing it by the total number of units to get a Unit Cost. From there I am just multiplying the two numbers together to get the total cost of waste/scrap.
Waste $ =
VAR scrap = CALCULATE(SUM('Capacity Ledger'[Scrap_Quantity]),'Capacity Ledger'[Scrap_Code] = "Damages" || 'Capacity Ledger'[Scrap_Code] = "Overages")
VAR unitCost = DIVIDE(SUM('Item Ledger'[Cost Amount Actual]), CALCULATE(SUM('Item Ledger'[Quantity]),'Item Ledger'[Entry_Type] = "Output"))
RETURN ROUND((scrap*unitCost),2)
My problem is that when it totals, it is using the average Unit Cost rather than summing each row indepentantly. The total for Waste $ should be 175.86, but I am actually getting 174.94.
I am thinking I need to use SUMX in some fasion, but I am not sure what the correct implementation of this would be. The few things I tried did not work as expected. Does anyone know what I could do differently?
Thanks for reading!
Kevin
Solved! Go to Solution.
You could rename your current measure to something like Waste Line Item then create a measure like
Waste $ =
IF (
ISINSCOPE ( 'Table'[No] ),
[Waste Line Item],
SUMX (
ADDCOLUMNS (
SUMMARIZE ( 'Table', 'Date'[Date], 'Table'[No] ),
"@waste", [Waste Line Item]
),
[@waste]
)
)
where the columns in the SUMMARIZE are the same columns from the left hand side of your table visual.
You could rename your current measure to something like Waste Line Item then create a measure like
Waste $ =
IF (
ISINSCOPE ( 'Table'[No] ),
[Waste Line Item],
SUMX (
ADDCOLUMNS (
SUMMARIZE ( 'Table', 'Date'[Date], 'Table'[No] ),
"@waste", [Waste Line Item]
),
[@waste]
)
)
where the columns in the SUMMARIZE are the same columns from the left hand side of your table visual.
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