Bar Chart: Counts of Unique Values for Visualize In-full Delivery

Use Bar Chart: Counts of Unique Values to compare reasons for partial deliveries from suppliers across two or more categories.

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

Example

In-full delivery is the proportion of orders that are delivered completely in the first shipment. To calculate in-full delivery rate, divide the total number of in-full deliveries by the total number of deliveries.

In this worksheet, Problem, Type, and Supplier Location are the categorical variables to plot.

C1-T C2-T C3-T
Problem Type Supplier Location
Backorder Porcelain Foreign
Multiple Warehouses Ceramic Domestic
Damaged Item Ceramic Domestic
Other Vinyl Domestic

How-to

  1. Choose Solutions Modules > Functions > Supply Chain KPIs, then select Launch.
  2. Under Delivery, select In-full delivery.
  3. Select Visualize in-full delivery, then click OK.
  4. Select Bar Chart: Counts of Unique Values, then click OK.
  5. In Categorical variables (2-4, outermost first), enter the column that contains the reasons for the partial shipment and one to three additional columns of categorical data. The first variable is the outermost on the scale and the last variable is the innermost.
  6. Click OK.
Tip

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