Bar Chart: Function of a Variable for Visualize Relationships With Customer Order Cycle Time

Use Bar Chart: Function of a Variable to visualize a function of total or average customer order cycle time by one categorical variable.

This example applies to the Supply Chain Module. For more information, go to www.minitab.com/supply-chain-module.

Example

Customer order cycle time is the number of days between a customer order and delivery of the product.

In this worksheet, Order Time is the graph variable. Region is the categorical variable.

C1 C2-T
Order Time Region
18 Northwest
12 Northwest
16 Midwest
15 Midwest

How-to

  1. Choose Solutions Modules > Functions > Supply Chain KPIs, then select Launch.
  2. Under Cycle Time, select Customer order cycle time.
  3. Select Visualize relationships with customer order cycle time, then click OK.
  4. Select Bar Chart: Function of a Variable, then click OK.
  5. From Function, select the function of the cycle time that you want to graph.
  6. In Graph variables (desktop app) or Y-variable (web app), enter the column that contains the cycle time data.
  7. In Categorical variable, enter the column of categorical data that defines the groups.
  8. Click OK.
Tip

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