Calculation of inventory forecast coverage

[Anonymous]

Hi Everyone,

I was making a visualization model for forecasting analysis and one of the measure is forecast coverage for various items. Following is a sample data.

Item No	On-hand Inventory	M+1	M+2	M+3	M+4	M+5	M+6	M+7	M+8	M+9	M+10	M+11	M+12	Forecast Coverage (Day)
S1	500	50	120	100	80	170	210	130	110	140	162	90	70	148.42
S2	1,500	100	100	100	100	200	200	100	150	150	150	150	200	334.40
S3	2,500	1,500	1,700	2,100	1,500	1,400	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	48.28
All SKUS	4,500	1,650	1,920	2,300	1,680	1,770	410	230	260	290	312	240	270	73.09

Assuming number of days in each month is 30.4, formula= (number of months covered - 1)*30.4 + (remaining inventory/ demand in last covered month)*30.4

Overall coverage shall be the value calculated from total on-hand inventory and overall forecasted demands in each month, instead of average value.

I have made a unpivoted table and calculated cumulative sum of forecasted demand with reference to following post. 

https://community.powerbi.com/t5/Desktop/Weeks-of-inventory-forecast-coverage/td-p/725459 

But I cannot figure out how to make the calculation in term of days. Thank you so much for any solution provided!

[edhans · Accepted solution]

@Anonymous you really need a date table for this.
First I had to make some assumptions. The on hand was current month, then M+1 meant next month, M+2 meant 2 months from now, etc. Then I converted those to dates by unpivoting. Full code here:

let
    Source = Table.FromRows(Json.Document(Binary.Decompress(Binary.FromText("i45WCjZU0lEyNDAAksYgwsRAKVYHKGwEZBtBhE1BwiZKsbEA", BinaryEncoding.Base64), Compression.Deflate)), let _t = ((type nullable text) meta [Serialized.Text = true]) in type table [Item = _t, OH = _t, #"M+1" = _t, #"M+2" = _t]),
    #"Unpivoted Other Columns" = Table.UnpivotOtherColumns(Source, {"Item"}, "Attribute", "Value"),
    #"Extracted Text After Delimiter" = Table.TransformColumns(#"Unpivoted Other Columns", {{"Attribute", each Text.AfterDelimiter(_, "+"), type text}}),
    #"Changed Type" = Table.TransformColumnTypes(#"Extracted Text After Delimiter",{{"Attribute", Int64.Type}, {"Value", Int64.Type}}),
    #"Added Date" = 
        Table.AddColumn(
            #"Changed Type", 
            "Date", 
            each 
                Date.AddMonths(
                    Date.EndOfMonth(
                        DateTime.Date(
                            DateTime.LocalNow()
                            )
                        ), (if [Attribute] = null then 0 else [Attribute])
                ),
            Date.Type
        ),
    #"Removed Other Columns" = Table.SelectColumns(#"Added Date",{"Item", "Date", "Value"})

in
    #"Removed Other Columns"

That turns this:

into this:

I couldn't use your original data. It was just one long string of text. See links below for putting data in usable tables.

Then I added a date table to Power Query using this code, and changed the SOURCE line to be just Jan 1, 2021-Dec 31, 2021.

Finally, by creating a few relatively simple measures, I was able to create a Table Visual that looks like this:

Now we can count exact days in the month and do whatever you need. Rather than post those measures, just get my PBIX file here. It has everything in it.

If you need further help, please provide good data and expected results per info here:

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