2 AP Cloud Service Dashboard
The Dashboard is a graphical user interface that provides an at-glance view of Key performance indicators of a business. As soon as you log in to the application, you are welcomed by the dashboard that briefs you about the health of the business, KPIs, and key items for each product category. The dashboard provides key statistics at your fingertips. You can use the dashboard to quickly analyze the health of the business, make note of your top-ranked and low-ranked items, review any alerts, and launch the affected workbooks directly to investigate the alert scenarios and resolve the alerts.
Different KPIs are important for different planners and are based on the product you are working on. If planner A wants to review trends by Gross Margin, planner B would want to review trends by Sell Thru and so on. Hence, the flexibility to select the required metrics is given to you before your online day ends so that the overnight batch picks up the parameters set to realign the dashboard to begin the next online day.
You are expected to set the KPIs to review the dashboard from the Dashboard Parameters view that is available from Assortment Services and then Planning Services.
The dashboard is laid out in these three sections: