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Create a results dashboard - Microsoft Excel Tutorial
From the course: Excel Supply Chain Analysis: Managing Simulations Using VBA
Create a results dashboard
- [Instructor] After you write your simulation output to an Excel table, you can summarize those results using a dashboard. A dashboard worksheet provides a high level overview for your data, giving you a summary that you can use to guide operations and further analysis. I'll demonstrate how to do that. And I'll work with the 02_04 dashboard workbook. You can find that in the exercise files collection. So here I have a fairly straightforward dashboard. And over on the left, you see that I have demand for each of my three cities and I'm calculating the average, the maximum and the minimum. If I go back to the demand worksheet, you can see that I have demand for Portland, demand for Oregon City and demand for Beaverton. Also, I have the total, whether demand was greater than capacity and also the number of units that went unfulfilled. So I will use each of these measurements in my dashboard. I'll switch back to the dashboard…
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