Timeka’s Tanning Salon, Inc Solutions

1. A written description of your analysis of the case, describing the key features and discussing the assumptions you have made.

Timeka’s Tanning salon is located in San Francisco, California. It provides customers with access to latest tanning beds, tan enhancing products and design features.

Company is manually maintaining the salon daily sales record. At the end of each week Miss. Lorenzo, the owner of Timeka’s Tanning Salon prepares a weekly sales activity report summarizing the data contained in the 7 daily sales activity reports.

Problems with the existing systems:

The data entry is very cumbersome and as the analysis is done weekly so the owner is not able to analyze the daily variations of sales activities. It also forgoes the opportunity to immediately improve on the daily fluctuations and fall in the sales activities.

Timeka Tanning Salon’s Requirement:

Miss. Lorenzo, needs an efficient system for tracking and analyzing her salon’s daily sales activities. The workbook should enable her to track and analysis salon’s activities efficiently.

It should help her to compare results of sales activities which can help her to improvise upon the services and fulfill the customer’s requirements.

2. What features did you add to make the workbook more functional?

- Freeze multiple rows and column in our spreadsheet.

- Automatic calculation of total daily revenue, top selling items.

- Pivot table, graphs, pie charts as per the customer’s requirements to analyze various sales data, top selling items and services.

3. How is workbook beneficial to your client?

- Easy entry and maintenance of sales data.- Daily analysis will be easy.- Time efficient and clear data presentation.- Easy comparison and tallying of data.- Less chances of calculation error.

4. What additional information should be included in the workbook to make it more useful?

- Workbook should have a color coding of the total sales data of each services and have a particular color level if the sales falls below a predetermined lowest limit. This will help the client to improve on services which is decreasing and enhancing the standards of the services.