Analyse spend trends by time period

The Trend by period charts under Analysis display bar graphs to illustrate spend trends weekly, monthly (grouped by invoice start date), and quarterly for the selected data set.

  1. On the VTR menu, click Analysis.
  2. On the Analysis page, click Filter and choose the location and time period you want to view. You may filter all the way to the Service Owner for the finest granularity of details. see Filter the analysed spend data set.
  3. At the top of the page, click Trend by period.

    4. The Trend by period page displays your spend or consumption by the data type you have selected.

  4. To view further granularity of data, double-click a slice of the pie. Below is an example of Location>Europe>France. Hover over the pie slice to see the actual values.


  5. Notice the bar char on the right shows the relative consumption by Quarter. The minimum spend and the maximum spend over that period appears at the top of the chart. Below, the charts display the same information broken down by Month and by Week.

  6. For any of these trending views, you can toggle between the bar chart and a grid view. The grid view provides a pivot display of Item type and Sub-type spend by the time period selected. For more information on the data that appears here, see Definition of spend types.

  7. To export this pivot table, click the export tool in the upper left of the panel. See Export spend details.