Module 03, Team Case Analysis - Performance Lawn Equipment

Part 2:

As noted in the case in Module 2, the supply chain worksheets provide cost data associated with logistics between existing plants and customers as well as proposed new plants.

Assignment:

Ms. Burke wants you to extract the records associated with the unit shipping costs of proposed plant locations and compare the costs of existing locations against those of the proposed locations using quartiles.

Assignment:

Propose a monthly dashboard of the most important business information that Ms. Burke can use on a routine basis as data are updated. Create one using the most recent data. Your dashboard should not consist of more than 68 charts, which should fit comfortably on one screen.

Assignment:

Elizabeth Burke wants some detailed statistical information about much of the data in the PLE database. In particular, she wants to know the following:

1. the mean satisfaction ratings and standard deviations by year and region in the worksheets Dealer Satisfaction and End-User Satisfaction
2. a descriptive statistical summary for the 2012 customer survey data
3. how the response times differ in each quarter of the worksheet Response Time
4. how defects after delivery (worksheet Defects after Delivery) have changed over these 5 years
5. how sales of mowers and tractors compare with industry totals and how strongly monthly product sales are correlated with industry sales Subject: Data Analytics for Business