Sales Insights App - Before you get started
Objective
Motivation
The Sales Insights App is a valuable tool for finance leaders seeking to make faster, data-driven decisions based on real-time sales performance. In many organizations, accessing detailed, product-level sales data—particularly segmented by discount types or regions—often requires navigating complex systems or waiting for manually generated reports. This app eliminates those barriers by offering an intuitive, interactive interface that visualizes key sales metrics at a glance. Through simple product selection, users can instantly view year-to-date sales trends, discounted vs. non-discounted sales breakdowns, and regional performance comparisons, all presented through easy-to-read charts. This empowers CFOs, finance analysts, and sales leaders to quickly spot anomalies, evaluate the effectiveness of pricing strategies, and identify high- or under-performing regions. By surfacing operational insights in a self-service format, the app enhances agility in forecasting, planning, and financial oversight—core responsibilities of modern finance teams. Built with SAP Build, the solution exemplifies how low-code tools can dramatically reduce development time while delivering impactful analytics solutions that align business and financial strategy.
Application Overview
The Sales Insights app, built using SAP Build, provides users with an interactive interface to view and analyze product sales data. Designed for simplicity and clarity, the app offers the following core functionalities:
- Product Selection
- A dropdown menu allows users to select a product from a predefined list.
- Once a product is selected, the app dynamically updates the sales data visualizations.
- Sales Overview Dashboard
- Year-to-Date Monthly Sales Volume is displayed via a line chart, enabling users to observe monthly trends and fluctuations in total sales volume.
- A Sales Type Comparison is visualized using a pie chart that breaks down the percentage of discounted vs. non-discounted sales for the selected product.
- Regional Sales Breakdown
- A dedicated button navigates the user to a secondary screen that presents a Bar chart comparison of discounted and non-discounted sales across different regions (East, Central, and West).
- This breakdown provides regional insight into pricing strategy effectiveness and customer response.
The app enables users to quickly evaluate sales performance and pricing impact, making it a useful tool for sales managers and business analysts.
Exercise Overview
For this exercise you will work with an incomplete version of the app. The workbook instructions will guide you on the steps required to make the app fully functional. You will experience how SAP Build can be used to quickly deliver internal applications via low-code approach.
Prerequisites
- Your username and password
- You have access to the SAP Build lobby