Overview
A Dashboard is a visualization tool that displays important data through various charts and graphs, providing an overview of key metrics in architect. A good comparison is checking a car’s gauges, it is a good way to determine the health of a car. In our case, it is used to find the health of the supply chain when differing scenarios are run.
Gains’ will provide three important dashboards that will be catered to your data:
Shipment Consolidation
Route Analysis
Route Detail
To view these created dashboards:
Navigate to Architect with the URL provided to you by Gains
Select Dashboards in the left pane
You will see the three dashboards that were built on your data
Shipment Consolidation
Route Analysis
Route Detail
Instructional Guide Introduction
We have created a guide that will introduce the work environment of Gains Architect
It will demonstrate common uses and provide instructions on how to use the software
If you haven’t done so already, Navigate to Architect with the URL provided to you by Gains
Exercise: Depot Summary
General Overview
In this next Chart, we will be able to display the number of routes assigned, cube delivered, customers served, and shipments delivered for each Base Scenario
We will take it a step further and include a dropdown on the Base Scenarios so that we are able to see the same statistics for each Output Scenario that branch from those Base Scenarios
Creating a Dashboard
After you have logged into Gains Architect, click on Dashboards in the left pane
Select + Create New Dashboard
In the top right corner of the screen select + Visualization
From there select the option SQL Server Data Source
Picking the Depot Summary Dashboard Preset
In the text box, type “DepotSummary”
Select the bubble next to DepotSummary
Then, hit Select Data
Explaining the Different Sections
Now you are presented with several options to format dashboards
Label: This represents the categories that are being compared.
Values: Numerical data points that are displayed in the visualization. This is the quantitative information that is being analyzed.
Category: Distinct classification of datapoints within each category from the label section. It is used to organize related data points together for comparative analysis.
Data Filters: Features that allow users to apply specific constraints. By using data filters, users can manipulate and control the displayed data to gain deeper insights and make more informed decisions
Changing the Chart Type
First, we will change the chart type
Select the Column dropdown
This is the chart that it defaults to
Now, select the Pivot chart
Dragging Fields to Sections
Now you can begin to drag Fields to the different Sections
Fields are on the very left of the screen and the Sections are to the right of the Fields
Drag BaseScenario to Add Rows + in the Rows section
Underneath that, drag OutputScenario to Add Hierarchy + in the Rows section
Drag RoutesAssigned to the Values section
Drag CubeDelivered to the Values section
Drag CustomersServed to the Values section
Drag ShipmentsDelivered to the Values section
Explaining Hierarchy
Because we put the Output Scenarios field in the hierarchy container, we can see all Output Scenarios from each Base Scenario
To do this, select the dropdown next to the base scenario(s)
Saving the Chart
Finally, we will save the chart to the dashboard
To do this, select the check mark in the top right corner
Saving the Dashboard
To save the Dashboard, select the check mark in the top right corner
