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idelatorre
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Posted - 2005-03-21 : 14:37:14
Hi Everyone
My problem is creating a cube with a very complex measures, I did it by hand and on a relational table using oracle for a custom dashboard my company bought, now I need to create an Analysis Services Cube and Reporting Services Client to let analysts create more in-depth reports.

The problem is this, we have a very complex metric with 4 levels in its product hierarchy:

Business Unit
->Product Line
-->Part Number
--->Production Station

The measure is FTY,at the station level it means the percentage of pieces that went through the station without failing, the formula for station is 1 - pieces_rejected/pieces_tested.

Now, this would be great if I could group all the pieces tested and rejected for a particular partnumber, and apply the same formula but to obtain the FTY of a partnumber I have to multipy the FTY of each of its stations, example:

Part Number 12345-001-00 FTY=0.8 * 0.5 * 1.0 = .4
->Welding Station PiecesTested=100 PiecesRejected=20 FTY=0.8 (80%)
->Assembly Station PiecesTested=1000 PiecesRejected=500 FTY=0.5 (50%)
->Test Station PiecesTested=100 PiecesRejected=0 FTY=1.0 (100%)

For the Product Line FTY we have to average all of its part numbers and for the Business Unit we create an average of its product lines.

I don't know how to design my FTY measure so that it will take into account that there is a different calculation for each step in the product drill down.

Any ideas guys/gals?

I will thank you a lot!

Ignacio
   

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