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Overview

This report allows you to choose several time periods to view year-over-year sales and inventory comparisons for each period in a single report. Additionally it provides inventory data for the most recent time available.  This report is very useful as a webquery web query as it can provide the equivalent data of multiple reports in a single request. This report allows drill-down capability to market and item-level details.

Note: The inventory data in this report is for the most recent time period, not for the time ranges you select.

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titleClick-Through Interactivity

Notice in the above screenshot there are several columns which are blue in colorwhere the text is blue. One of the big benefits of the web reporting is the ability to embed a number of rich interactions with the report results, right interaction links with more detailed results from inside the a report. Usually , a left-most column that is clickable (blue text) indicates a drill-down capability which will open a new report for the specific item or category with a higher greater level of data granularitydetail. Holding Hovering your mouse over the link should provide you with a hint of what the link can do as well. Links in other columns often will provide you with pop-up graphs to enhance your understanding of the data in that row/column as well.



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Multi-Period Category Sales & Inventory Analysis

Multi-Period Item Sales & Inventory Analysis By Market

Multi-Period Item Sales & Inventory Analysis By Store

Default Columns In This Report

  • Category
  • Item #
  • Description
  • Sales Metrics Repeated Columns (for each time period chosen)
    • Units CY
    • Units PY
    • Sales CY
    • Sales PY
    • Units %
    • Sales %
  • Inventory Metrics
    • Units CY
    • Units PY
    • CY Cost$
    • PY Cost$
    • % Change
    • On Order

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titleColumn Definitions

Many of the column names are common between reports. We also use abbreviations to save space. To learn about the meaning of a specific column click on the link below for the glossary of column terms.

Report Columns / Terms Glossary