Daily Purchases (Power BI Report)
APPLIES TO: Generally available in Business Central 2024 release wave 2 (version 25.1).
The Daily Purchases report provides a comprehensive overview of your purchase activities on specific days. By highlighting days with a higher volume of purchases, you can identify trends and patterns in your purchasing behavior. You can also use this report to analyze purchase data across different years, quarters, or months, and get valuable insights into purchasing trends over time.
Use the report
This report helps purchasing managers and purchasing teams to optimize purchasing schedules and track daily purchase activities.
Purchasing managers can analyze data to allocate budgets and staff, ensuring that your team can handle the purchasing volume. Use this report to identify the busiest days of the week and make sure that your team is adequately staffed on those days. For example, the report might show that Wednesdays are your busiest days. You can allocate more staff and budget to ensure that your team can handle the workload.
Purchasers track daily purchases and ensure they stay within budget. Use this report to monitor daily purchase activities and identify purchases or days that might exceed the budget.
Key Performance Indicators (KPIs)
The Daily Purchases report includes the following KPIs and measures:
Click on the link for a KPI to learn more about what it means, how it is calculated, and what data was used in the calculations.
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Data used in the report
The report uses data from the following tables in Business Central:
- Value Entry
- Purchase Line
- Item
Try the report
Try the report here: Daily Purchases
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See also
Track KPIs with Power BI metrics
Power BI Purchasing app
Ad hoc analysis of purchasing data
Built-in purchasing reports
Purchasing analytics overview
Purchasing overview