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📊 Northwind Sales Dashboard (Power BI)

📌 Project Overview

This project is an interactive Power BI dashboard built using the Northwind dataset to analyze sales performance and operational insights.

The dashboard is designed to help decision-makers:

  • Monitor business performance
  • Identify trends and patterns
  • Detect operational inefficiencies
  • Make data-driven decisions

🎯 Dashboard Structure


🟦 Page 1: Executive Overview

This page provides a high-level summary of business performance for quick decision-making.

🔹 Key Features:

💰 KPI Cards

  • Total Sales
  • Total Orders
  • Average Order Value
  • Total Customers

📈 Monthly Sales Trend

  • Shows sales performance over time
  • Helps identify growth and seasonal patterns

📊 Sales by Category

  • Multi-color visualization for category comparison
  • Highlights top-performing product categories

🌍 Sales by Country

  • Displays geographical sales distribution
  • Identifies top contributing regions

🥇 Top Products

  • Highlights best-selling products
  • Helps understand product-level performance

🎛️ Filters (Slicers)

  • Country
  • Category
  • Employees
  • Order Date

🟩 Page 2: Operational Insights

This page focuses on operational performance and problem identification.

🔹 Key Features:

🚨 KPI Cards

  • Pending Orders
  • Shipped Orders
  • Total Quantity
  • Avg Sales per Customer

🚚 Order Fulfillment Status

  • Donut chart showing Pending vs Shipped orders
  • Provides quick view of operational efficiency

Bottom Performing Products

  • Identifies low-performing products
  • Helps in decision-making for improvement or removal

👨‍💼 Sales by Employee

  • Compares employee performance
  • Highlights top and low performers

📊 Order Size Distribution

  • Shows distribution of order quantities
  • Helps understand customer buying patterns

🔍 Operational Focus

  • Identifies inefficiencies in order processing
  • Highlights areas needing attention

🧠 Business Questions Answered

  • What is the overall sales performance of the business?
  • Which products and categories generate the most revenue?
  • Which countries contribute the highest sales?
  • Who are the top-performing employees?
  • What percentage of orders are successfully shipped?
  • Which products are underperforming?
  • What is the distribution of order sizes?
  • Where are operational inefficiencies occurring?

📸 Dashboard Preview

🔹 Executive Overview

Executive Overview

🔹 Operational Insights

Operational Insights


🛠 Tools & Technologies Used

  • Power BI
  • DAX (Data Analysis Expressions)
  • Data Modeling

🚀 Skills Demonstrated

  • Data Visualization
  • Dashboard Design
  • Business Analysis
  • Data Modeling
  • KPI Development
  • Insight Generation

🎨 Design Highlights

  • Clean white background with modern UI
  • Consistent color palette for KPIs
  • Multi-color category analysis
  • Highlighted key insights using visual hierarchy
  • Interactive filters for dynamic analysis

🙌 Conclusion

This dashboard provides a complete 360° view of business performance, combining both strategic and operational insights.

It enables stakeholders to:

  • Track performance
  • Identify trends
  • Detect issues
  • Make informed business decisions

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