ABC Classification (Pareto Analysis) — SQL-Based Inventory Prioritization
Analyzed 293,569 orders and 2,350 SKUs to identify which products actually drive revenue — and which don't.
Approach:
Built a CTE-based ABC classification in SQL Server, ranking products by cumulative revenue contribution using window functions (SUM() OVER, CUME_DIST(), PERCENT_RANK()), then segmented into three tiers based on Pareto thresholds.
Result:
Category A (20% of products) → 70%+ of total revenue
Category B (30% of products) → 20-25% of revenue
Category C (50% of products) → 5-10% of revenue
Business impact:
This reprioritizes where operational effort should go — tighter stock monitoring and faster reordering for Category A, reduced tracking overhead for Category C. The same logic fed into a related late-delivery root cause analysis on the same dataset.
Stack: SQL Server · Tableau