Retail – Store Performance Dashboard

What is a Store Performance Dashboard for a Retail Company? Store performance reports are considered operational dashboards and are used by corporate offices and regional managers to analyze store sales and to benchmark performance. Some of the main functionality in this type of dashboard is that it it compares actual and budget revenues and profit across stores. It also shows the monthly trend for these two metrics. The two pie charts displays the top 5 and bottom 5 store locations. The dashboard also shows square foot per store and revenue per square foot per store. You find an example of this type of dashboard below.

Purpose of Store Performance Dashboards Retailers use Store Performance Dashboards to make it easy for managers to analyze and benchmark KPIs across a chosen group of store locations. When used as part of good business practices in a retail operations department, a company can improve its decision-making related to store management, products and other performance variables as well as reduce the chances that executives don’t have good visibility to the large variations in store performance as soon as numbers are available.

Who Uses This Type of Dashboard? The typical users of this type of dashboard are: Retail executives, CFOs, regional managers, store managers. Other Dashboards Often Used in Conjunction with Store Performance Dashboards Progressive retail operations departments sometimes use several different Store Performance Dashboards, along with general sales forecasts and budgets, sales dashboards, profit & loss reports and other management and control tools.

Where Does the Data for Analysis Originate From? The Actual (historical transactions) data typically comes from management systems or enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems like: Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) Finance, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Sage Intacct, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SAP ByDesign, Acumatica, Netsuite and others. In analyses where budgets or forecasts are used, the planning data most often originates from in-house Excel spreadsheet models or from professional xFP&A solutions.

Built for retail finance teams and aligned with Solver's xFP&A platform, this Solver dashboard template connects directly to your ERP data via the Solver Data Warehouse, enabling near real-time analysis with minimal setup. Designed for QuickStart deployment, it can be activated rapidly so your team can focus on analysis and decisions — not data preparation.

What is the Retail – Store Performance Dashboard in Solver? The Retail – Store Performance Dashboard is a pre-built xFP&A dashboard template in Solver designed for retail organizations. It delivers key financial and operational metrics in a single, easy-to-use interface — purpose-built for retail finance workflows.

Who uses this Solver dashboard template? Cfos, fp&a managers, and retail finance teams in retail organizations rely on this Solver dashboard template to replace manual spreadsheet-based processes with automated, near real-time analysis. It is especially useful during month-end close, budget cycles, and board reporting.

Where does the data come from? Data is sourced automatically from your ERP system through the Solver Data Warehouse, which integrates with platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central, Dynamics 365 Finance, Acumatica, Sage Intacct, and other leading ERP solutions. Once connected, the template updates in near real-time with no manual data entry required.

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