The Recommended Orders tab offers insights into the ordering activity of your selected location or group of locations. Within the Recommended Orders tab, you can access detailed KPIs which will help you evaluate your ordering performance, track order downloads to the ERP system and identify trends. Keep a keen eye on the variance metric, as it reveals whether users trust the app's recommendations or have performed manual overrides to fine-tune the inputs.
What should I do first?
Click on the location drop down to select a location you wish to view KPIs for.
You may select to view the KPIs for all locations, specific physical locations or consolidated regions.
Click on the timeframe drop down to select how much history you wish to have displayed on the report.
Key performance indicators
View KPIs for the selected location at the top of the view. These are described below.
Total orders - The number of recommended orders generated by the users for the location or group of locations being viewed over the timeframe being viewed.
Downloaded - The count of orders being sent to the ERP system or desktop from the app.
Trend - The percentage increase or decrease over the period.
Supplier orders - The count of supplier orders being sent to the ERP system or desktop from the app.
DC orders - The count of DC orders being sent to the ERP system or desktop from the App.
Order value - The sum value of amended orders downloaded to the ERP system. .
Variance - The difference between the computer generated recommended order value and the user-amended value being downloaded. A large variance indicates users do not trust the app generated recommendation and is overriding it instead of correcting the inputs.
Graphs
There are useful graphs within this tab, and these are explained below.
Daily orders created (downloaded) - This graph displays the total daily number of orders being downloaded from the app.
Daily orders by source (downloaded) - This graph displays the daily number of supplier orders and DC orders being downloaded from the app.
Top ordering locations (# orders placed) - This graph displays the top locations in terms of number of orders placed by them.
Top ordering locations - This graph displays the top locations in terms of order value placed by them. It compares the computer recommended order value to the user amended order value.
Top suppliers (# orders placed) - This graph displays the top suppliers in terms of number of orders placed against them.
Top suppliers - This graph displays the top suppliers in terms of order value placed against them. It compares the computer recommended order value to the user amended order value.
Top DCs (# orders placed) - This graph displays the top DCs in terms of number of orders placed against them, not by them.
Top DCs - This graph displays the top DCs in terms of order value placed against them, not by them. It compares the computer recommended order value to the user amended order value.
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