# The Grid

3 sessions in this series

In this series, get comfortable navigating the Phocas grid to confidently analyze, report, and leverage your data to drive business success.

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## Grid 101

Now on-demand

Master the Phocas Grid to track KPIs, compare performance, and uncover opportunities for sales and inventory optimization.

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**Phil Braniff**  
Customer Success Consultant

**Katie Horgan**  
Product Marketing Manager

In this session, learn how to:

- Confidently navigate the Grid to freely explore data and drive business success
- Easily identify gaps and opportunities across your customer channels by comparing sales against budget and previous period
- Track your KPIs against budget at multiple levels (e.g. by sales rep, customer, branch/location)

## Advanced search + Phocas extras

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Expanding on Grid 101, we'll introduce advanced features that enable deeper data analysis to support better decision making.

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**Imani Timpanaro**  
Customer Success Consultant

**Katie Horgan**  
Product Marketing Manager

In this session, learn how to:

- Uncover sales and inventory opportunities by identifying low-margin products, inactive customers, and slow-moving stock to drive targeted actions
- Refine analysis by filtering data streams, adding calculations, and setting up alerts to stay on top of key sales and inventory changes
- Enhance focus and reporting by locking dimensions for consistent customer or product views, using nested tables for deeper insights, and ensuring correct user access with impersonation

## Custom reporting + gap analysis

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Customize calculations, apply edits, and arrange columns to uncover deeper insights into sales and inventory—enhancing performance and improving stock control.

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**Carl Jones**  
Customer Success Consultant

**Katie Horgan**  
Product Marketing Manager

Using custom and matrix mode, learn how to:

- Customize the way you display columns in the grid for more detailed analysis
- Build custom calculations to identify opportunities and track sales + inventory performance
- Adjust reports with dynamic offset dates to keep your sales and inventory data up to date