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Product Category Spend

The Product Category Spend report provides a detailed view of spend for a selected product category. It enables you to analyze how product spend within that category is distributed across cost pools, products, towers, and cost centers.

This report is accessed by drilling down from the Spend by Category chart in the Product Portfolio dashboard and is scoped to a selected product category.

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KPIs


Spend (YTD)

Total year-to-date product spend

Prior Year Spend (YTD)

Year-to-date spend in the prior year.


Variance (YTD)

Difference between current year spend (YTD) and prior year spend (YTD).

Total Prior Year Spend

Total spend for the prior year.


Potential Savings

The total savings opportunities identified across all products that have not yet been realized.

Realized Savings (YTD

The total savings achieved year-to-date across all products.


Charts and tables

Selecting any data point in a chart allows you to drill down into a more detailed view of the selected element.

Cost Pools

The Cost Pools chart shows the cumulative year to date spend and prior year to date spend broken down by TBM Cost Pool.

Click on any cost pool column to drill into the related GL transactions.

Products

This chart shows the cumulative YTD spend and prior year spend broken down by products.

Click on a product to drill down to the transaction level spend.

Towers

The Towers chart shows the cumulative year to date spend and prior year to date spend broken down by TBM Tower.

Click in any tower to drill into related GL transaction.

Top 20 Cost Centers

This chart shows the cumulative YTD spend and prior year YTD spend broken down by cost centers.

Click on a cost centers to see a drill down to the transaction level.

Product Category Spend Details

The Product Category Spend Details table shows the product category spend trend for month-on-month. Spend is shown as YTD spend, prior year spend and variance for each month.

Click on any row to drill into the transaction level spend for the month.


Data sources

The table below outlines the charts available on this page and the corresponding data cubes from which each chart retrieves its data.

Chart name

Data cube

Cost Pools

Spend

Products

Spend

Towers

Spend

Top 20 Cost Centers

Spend

Product Category Spend Details

Spend