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Technology: VB, Access
Time Frame: January 1996 - March 1996

The following images are from FlexCab, a category management program developed in Visual Basic and Access. The client needed a way for a supermarket chain to be able to examine their sales volumes on many different levels.
FlexCab takes all the product sales information and breaks up the products into divisions and then into categories. These categories are displayed with their respective statistics for the given sales period.

One feature the client needed was the ability to show this information in a graphical format. FlexCab's graphs make it easier for the user to see an enormous amount of data in an easy to understand view.

In addition to showing chain-wide information, FlexCab also can break up the data on a store level. This enables the user to see how products are selling in different stores in different locations. It also is a good way to measure the success and marketing of individual stores compared to the chain's performance.

Nielsen data can be displayed for any product so the user can see how his stores are doing selling the product compared to the rest of the nation.

Of course a supermaket chain can't carry every product that exists. But wouldn't it be nice to see how much revenue you could expect if you decided to carry a new product? FlexCab makes this possible by including Nielsen data in its database. Based on the product's sales across the nation, FlexCab can estimate what the sales would be for your chain if you carried the product.

The MDI interface of FlexCab allows the user to open multiple windows. This allows them to look at graphs and spreadsheets for multiple stores at the same time. FlexCab gives the user all the tools he will need to determine how the chain and stores are performing.

This screen shows off some of the charting and graphing capabilities.

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