Improving Data Visibility with Descriptive Statistics: How to visualize the Product-Volume-Variability-Velocity Matrix

How great would it be to see your product portfolio in terms of volume, variability, and velocity at a glance on one chart?

Remember the last blog on descriptive statistics describing the Volume/Variability Matrix?

• For views of inventory, the data element Item-Location (SKU) becomes your meaningful element. Take a 12-month data stream and measure standard deviation and mean. Divide the standard deviation by the mean and call it COV (coefficient of variation). Segregate your SKUs by a hurdle rate for your business, say 0.50. If the variability of the SKU is greater than 50% of the mean, call it HIGH VARIABILITY. Now you have a descriptive statistic for that SKU. Get fancy and call those SKUs below a COV of 0.50 LOW VARIABILITY. Create a hurdle rate for volume and you’ll soon have a four-quadrant system showing: High Variability/High Volume; High Variability/Low Volume; Low Variability/ Low Volume; and Low Variability/High Volume.

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