The Product Portfolio dashboard provides a consolidated view of total product spend across the organization. It presents spend by month, top 20 products, cost pools, cost centers, product category, and towers.
This dashboard delivers real-time visibility into product-related costs, enabling you to understand where spend is concentrated, how it compares to the prior year, and how it is distributed across the TBM taxonomy.
Scope
This dashboard includes:
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Year-to-date (YTD) Product Spend
What is this dashboard used for?
The Product Portfolio dashboard provides a high-level financial overview of total product costs. It is used to:
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Monitor total product spend performance
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Compare current year spend against prior year
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Identify high-cost products
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Understand cost distribution across TBM dimensions
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Support financial reporting and variance analysis
What questions does this dashboard answer?
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What is my total product spend year-to-date?
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How does current YTD spend compare to prior year YTD?
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Which products are driving the highest spend?
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How is product spend distributed across Cost Pools, Towers, and Cost Centers?
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Are there unusual trends or anomalies in product spend?
Key benefits
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Quickly spot the biggest cost drivers across the product portfolio
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Understand where product spend is being allocated (cost pool, cost center, tower)
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Track YTD movement and variance vs prior year
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KPIs
Charts and tables
Selecting any data point in a chart allows you to drill down into a more detailed view of the selected element.
Monthly Spend
The Monthly Spend chart shows the month-on-month trend and the cumulative year to date spend. Spend is shown as total spend and prior year spend for each month. The cumulative dotted spend line predicts spend for future months based on historic spend.
Click on any spend column to drill into the month and see the spend broken down for the month.
Top 20 Products
The Top 20 Products chart shows the top 20 products by spend from most to least spend. Spend for each product is shown as YTD, prior year YTD and variance.
Click on any product to drill further into the Product TCO dashboard.
Cost Pools
The Cost Pools chart shows the cumulative YTD spend and prior year YTD spend broken down by cost pool.
Click on any cost pool to drill further into the Cost Pool Product Spend report.
Top 20 Cost Centers
The Top 20 Cost Centers chart shows the top 20 cost centers from most to least spend. Spend for each cost center is shown as YTD and prior year YTD.
Click on any cost center to drill further into the Cost Center Product Spend report.
Spend by Category
This chart shows the product spend broken by category. Spend is shown as YTD, prior year YTD, and variance.
Click on any product to drill into Product Category Spend report.
Towers
The Tower chart shows the cumulative year to date and prior year spend broken down by TBM Tower.
Click on any tower column to drill further into the Tower Product Spend report.
Data sources
The table below outlines the charts available on this page and the corresponding data cubes from which each chart retrieves its data.
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Chart name |
Data Cube |
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Monthly Spend |
Spend |
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Top 20 Products |
Spend |
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Cost Pools |
Spend |
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Top 20 Cost Centers |
Spend |
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Spend by Category |
Spend |
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Towers |
Spend |
Drill down reports