Usage Summary

The usage summary is accessed through the "Usage" tab on the carousel and provides a single location to summarise consumption across all commodities.

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Normalised Usage Summary Table - All Commodities

Object type	Summary table
Purpose	To summarise latest total consumption for each commodity (or group) by commonly used time periods.

Defaults
Reporting intervals	Current (calendar) month Current year (previous 11 calendar months and current month) Current financial year (financial year to date) Last month (previous calendar month) Last full year (previous 12 calendar months)
Reporting items	Total consumption for commodity (or commodity group)

Configurable in session
None

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Projected Usage Summary Table - All Commodities

Object Type	Summary Table
Purpose	To summarise total projected usage for each commodity (or group) by commonly used time periods. Useful for identifying where actual consumption differs from expected consumption.

Defaults
Reporting intervals	Current (calendar) Month Current year (previous 11 calendar months and current month) Current financial year (financial year to date) Last month (previous calendar month) Last full year (previous 12 calendar months)
Reporting items	Total projected consumption for commodity (or commodity group)

Configurable in session
None

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Monthly Commodity Group Usage

Object Type	Unit chart
Purpose	To chart monthly consumption by commodity for a commodity group.

Defaults
Reporting interval	Monthly
Plot Type	Bar
Dates	Relative
Start date	Current month -48
End date	Current month

Configurable in session
Start date
End date

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Monthly Consumption Trends by Commodity Group

Object Type	Unit chart
Purpose	To summarise monthly consumption trends by commodity type for a commodity group.

Defaults
Reporting interval	Monthly (accumulated annually by financial year)
Plot type	Line
Dates	Relative
Start date	Current month -48
End date	Current month

Configurable in session
Start date
End date

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Share of Usage for a Commodity Group

Object yype	Pie Chart
Purpose	To chart how commodity group consumption is shared across a category.

Defaults
Reporting interval	Annual
Plot type	Pie
Dates	Relative
Category	Business unit
Threshold	5%

Configurable in session
Start date
End date
Category
Threshold

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Period Normalised Usage All Commodities

Object Type	Data table
Purpose	To summarise total consumption (by month or other period) for the previous year by commodity.

Defaults
Reporting intervals	Month
Reporting items	Total period normalised consumption for commodity
Start date	Current year -1
End date	Current month +2

Start date

Configurable in session
End date

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