Setting Up a Weekly Retail Trade Report for a Multi-Brand Retailer
One agreed definition set and a Monday report that replaced four competing spreadsheets.
Weekly Retail Reporting Challenge
Four teams produced four weekly spreadsheets with different definitions of the same KPIs, and Monday meetings started with reconciliation.
- Four competing weekly reports
- No written KPI definitions
- Two days of manual preparation every week
What Was Done to Set Up the Weekly Trade Report
KPI definitions agreed
One sheet, signed off by all teams.
Power BI trade report
Built around the Monday meeting agenda.
Reporting calendar and owners
Who prepares, checks and presents.
Weekly Trade Report Results in Numbers
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weekly report
KPIs with an owner
Tools Used in the Reporting Project
Power BI trade report
Weekly refresh and market views.
Excel definition sheet
Formulas, sources and owners.
Related Service: Setting Up Retail Analytics Processes
Reporting calendar, ownership and definitions that make numbers agreed once and reused everywhere.
The report got simpler once everyone agreed what it was for.
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