Excel Dynamic Dashboard Friday Freebie: Watching Inventory Valuation Trends

Excel Dynamic Dashboard Friday Freebie: Watching Inventory Valuation Trends

Using the Option Button Form Control To Build a Dynamic Inventory Valuation Trend Dashboard

This week I decided to build an Excel Dynamic Dashboard using the option button.  Reviewing inventory valuation trends using historical data is a great way to oversee and monitor how much inventory you are carrying in your facility at any given moment.  It can also act as an indicator of whether or not you are meeting inventory reduction initiatives and targets.  In this dashboard I decided to use the option button as a means of allowing the user to select a period (year) which will in turn display the inventory valuation trend for that time frame.  I also included the average value of the inventory within the dashboard which also updates dynamically based on the user’s selection. (more…)

Excel Dynamic Charting: Comparing Product Categories By Total Units Sold

Excel Dynamic Charting: Comparing Product Categories By Total Units Sold

Let’s Do this Backwards

Excel dynamic charting is a great way to quickly answer questions without having to go through rows and rows of data.  I’ve decided to start backwards this time by providing you guys with the final product/dashboard before giving you the tutorial on how to build it.  This is a great way to learn.  I haven’t hidden any of the formulas so feel free to play around with this to see if you can figure out what’s going on behind the scenes. (more…)