7117-IBA Applied Case Study

Due: 21 April 17 22:30

Weight: 20%

REQUIREMENTS

You are a member of a business intelligence team supporting management of ABC Retail Company.
The company uses a computer-based sales system. You are provided with the following data table:

TRANSACTIONS Sample Table of sales transactions. (Refer to Appendix 1)

STATE_LOOKUP States names lookup Table. (Refer to Appendix 1)

The TRANSACTIONS table contains a sample of sales that took place over a period of various
weeks, after all transactions have been posted. The transaction information includes not only date
and time, but also demographic, geographic and product information.

You have been asked to use SAS Enterprise Guide programs to analyse the TRANSACTIONS,
and provide information and insights to management, for store management, potential market
segmentation or new promotional campaigns. You are to produce a management report with
sections dealing with each of the issues on the next page. Your report should cover each issue and
include (where appropriate) a summary of findings.

For each issue, comment briefly on what you found, its significance, and its implications for the
company. You should support your findings with appropriately labelled and totalled reports
generated with SAS (in html format). See Appendix 2 for information on generating reports.

Report headers should identify the company, the time period covered, your name and the title of
the report. All SAS reports should be sorted in a manner, which focuses attention on the high value
items. Submit these SAS reports along with your management report. Also, you are required to
submit your SAS programs used to generate these reports.

Note: All reports of questions (1,2,4, and 5) are to be exported into .html format. For question 3,
exporting to excel should be fine.

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1. Descriptive Analysis

Q1. What's the total amount of money spent per weekend on each shopping week?

Q2. How much money was spent by each age group?

Q3. What is the total quantity sold and total amount of sales of each product in each state? (make
sure to include the State Name. hint: join tables)

Q4. Which 20 products have the highest sales in value where more than 1 item was sold?

Q5. How many unique customers does region W01 have?

2. Creative Insights

Q6. How would you use the results of these reports to enhance this retailers business? (suggest 5
strategies).

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APPENDIX 1

Transactions (Table)
Record Layout

Column name Description Type Sample values

shop_week Identifies the week of the basket Char Format is YYYYWW where the first 4
characters identify the fiscal year and
the other two characters identify the
specific week within the year (e.g.
200735). Being the fiscal year, the first
week doesnt start in January.
shop_date Date when shopping has been made. Char 20060413, 20060412
Date is specified in the yyyymmdd
format
shop_weekday Identifies the day of the week Num 1=Sunday, 2=Monday, ..., 7=Saturday
shop_hour Hour slot of the shopping Num 0=00:00-00:59, 1=01:00-
01:59, ...23=23:00-23:59
Quantity Number of items of the same product Num Integer number
bought in this basket
spend Spend associated to the items bought Num Number with two decimal digits
prod_code Product Code Char PRD0900001, PRD0900003
prod_code_10 Product Hierarchy Level 10 Code Char CL00072, CL00144
prod_code_20 Product Hierarchy Level 20 Code Char DEP00021, DEP00051
prod_code_30 Product Hierarchy Level 30 Code Char G00007, G00015
prod_code_40 Product Hierarchy Level 40 Code Char D00002, D00003
cust_code Customer Code Char CUST0000001624, CUST0000001912
cust_price_sens Customers Price Sensitivity Char LA=Less Affluent, MM=Mid Market,
itivity UM=Up Market, XX=unclassified
cust_lifestage Customers Lifestage Char YA=Young Adults, OA=Older Adults,
YF=Young Families, OF=Older
Families, PE=Pensioners, OT=Other,
XX=unclassified
basket_id Basket ID. All items in a basket share Num 994100100000020, 994100100000344
the same basket_id value.
basket_size Basket size Char L=Large, M=Medium, S=Small
basket_price_se Basket price sensitivity Char LA=Less Affluent, MM=Mid Market,
nsitivity UM=Up Market, XX=unclassified
basket_type Basket type Char Small Shop, Top Up, Full Shop, XX
basket_dominan Shopping dominant mission Char Fresh, Grocery, Mixed, Non Food, XX
t_mission
store_code Store Code Char STORE00001, STORE00002
store_format Format of the Store Char LS, MS, SS, XLS
store_region Region the store belongs to Char E02, W01, E01, N03
store_state Identifies store location by state code Char NSW, VIC, NT, QLD

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State_Lookup (Table)
Record Layout

Column name Description Type Sample values

State_code Identifies the state code Char NSW, VIC, NT, QLD etc.
state_name Identifies the state name Char New South Wales, Victoria etc.

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APPENDIX 2

Assignment Submission Requirements

This assignment requires students to produce a management report addressing specified issues. This
management report should be produced as an MS Word document. SAS reports should accompany
this management report. These reports should be .htm files with filenames (reference numbers, e.g.
Q1.htm) corresponding to each issue. The management report, .htm files and Base SAS programs
should be submitted zipped together as one file, along with the assignment cover sheet as
instructed.

The SAS reports should be output in each case to an .htm file (use the reference number as the
filename, e.g. Q1.htm). When using Base SAS, you use the ODS statement to send your output to a
designated file in a html format. See Program EX2AA.SAS (Workshop 3).

Use a consistent layout for your SAS reports:

Header: ABC Retail Company

Transactions: Sample ##
Sales Transactions Analysis

Report Q1: Total Product Sales per Region

Footer: Course Code, Student Number, your name

Additional Notes

Students are expected to submit a good quality management report, suitable for submission to the
Director. They should address each issue, referring to their findings (e.g. number of items sold,
total number of customers, significance of findings) and the associated SAS reports.

Reports should be consistently labelled, identifying the Company, period covered, student name(s)
and report title. Columns should be formatted. Reports should be sorted high value items where
appropriate.

Students should comment on the significance of their findings, individually and in combination.

The management report should start with an Introduction explaining the scope of the project, have
a section for each issue, and end with a Summary of findings and an overall Conclusion.

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7117IBA Applied Case Study Criteria Sheet
Student Name: .Student No.: .
(Please write in block letters here. This sheet will be the second page of your assignment following the Assignment Cover Sheet.)

Criteria Unsatisfactory Low Pass Pass Above Average Excellent Marks

Analysis and Provided information Identified relevant Identified and analysed Relevant information from the /6
Judgment from the case. information from the case. relevant information from the case was identified and
No logical argument There was some evidence case. analysed comprehensively.
was presented leading of logical argument There was good evidence of Strong evidence was shown of
to a satisfactory leading to a conclusion. logical argument leading to a logical argument that led to
conclusion. and supporting a conclusion. and supported a conclusion.
Communication Failed to submit a Submitted a management Submitted a management Submitted a management report /4
management report. report and wrote in a clear report with Introduction, with Introduction, appropriate
Wrote in an unclear and and structured manner appropriate sections, and sections, and overall summary
unstructured manner with satisfactory spelling, overall summary and and conclusions.
with unsatisfactory punctuation, and grammar. conclusions. Wrote in a clear, Wrote in a clear, logical and
spelling, punctuation, Acknowledged sources. logical and structured manner structured manner with correct
and grammar. with good spelling, spelling, punctuation, grammar
Did not acknowledge punctuation, grammar and and referencing.
sources. referencing.
Technology Demonstrated little Demonstrated some Demonstrated good Demonstrated a high level of /10
Application competence in applying competence in applying competence in applying SAS competence in applying SAS
SAS software to SAS software to produce software to produce software to produce
produce professional professional quality, professional quality, professional quality,
quality, consistently consistently presented and consistently presented and consistently presented and
presented and correct correct output to meet correct output to meet project correct output to meet project
output to meet project project objectives. objectives. objectives.
objectives.
Total Marks /20