Sales Analysis Inquiry (SAI610)

The Sales Analysis Inquiry program gives remote users the ability to inquire into historical sales information based on customer number or customer/item numbers and ship-to. The multiperiod files store sales information on the current period and 26 previous periods. Past purchases can be viewed as month-to-date or year-to-date activity using one of the following formats:

• Accumulated—displays purchases in dollars for the current period, previous period, year-to-date, prior year-to-date, prior year, last six periods and last 12 periods.
  
• Comparison—displays purchases in dollars for the chosen range of periods and includes the percentage difference; display includes purchases in units for customer/item number.
  
• Multiperiod—displays purchases in dollars for the current period and 26 previous periods; display includes purchases in units for customer/item number.
  
• Graph—displays the number of unit purchases in graph format.
  

To run a view the inquiry:

1. Select the type of information to display

Choose from (1) Customer, (2) Customer/Item, or (3) Customer/Item MTD/YTD. Press Enter (CR) to default to 1.

2. Enter Information Display Code

Choose from Accumulated, Comparison, Multiperiod, Graph. Accumulated displays purchase dollars by period breakdown. Comparison displays dollars by comparable periods. Multiperiod displays purchase dollars by period. Graph displays purchases in bar chart format.

3. Enter Information

Enter the appropriate field(s) as determined by the type of display selected.