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Power BI custom visuals for supply chain

On-time-in-full, inventory cover and supplier spend: the flow views planners and buyers check before the daily stand-up.

For Supply-chain planners, logistics managers, procurement leads. AI-generated, .pbiviz output, source code yours.

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This is the team view: everything supply chain teams build in Power BI, from visuals to page templates. For a single dashboard job in depth (its visuals, DAX measures and prompts), jump to the 1 supply chain dashboard jobs below.

Supply-chain reporting connects three worlds that rarely share a system: purchasing, inventory and delivery. Planners want to know which items fall below safety stock and how many days of cover remain, logistics wants on-time-in-full by carrier and lane, procurement wants spend concentration by supplier and category. The data comes from ERP, WMS and carrier feeds and is usually joined in a Power BI model with a shared item, site and date dimension. Native Power BI handles the tables and trends; the views that need custom drawing are the flows and thresholds: a Sankey of goods from supplier to warehouse to customer, an inventory heatmap by item and site coloured by days of cover, a bullet chart of OTIF per carrier against the contract target, a spend Pareto with the 80% supplier set marked.

VizForge generates those as Power BI custom visuals from a plain description and packages the .pbiviz for Desktop. The visual binds to the measures your planners already use, so safety-stock rules and OTIF definitions stay in the model. For the page layout, the Design Studio has supply-chain inventory, logistics delivery and procurement spend templates with sample models you can download and open in Power BI Desktop. Units deserve a word too: supply-chain data mixes pieces, cases, pallets and value, so say in the prompt which unit each visual shows.

What supply chain teams need

  • Material flows (supplier → site → customer) are hard to show with bars; a Sankey shows where volume goes
  • Inventory risk is a threshold question per item and site; a table of numbers hides the items below safety stock
  • OTIF must be shown against each carrier's contract target, not a single company-wide line
  • Spend is concentrated: a Pareto shows how few suppliers carry most of it
  • Native visuals don't draw a flow diagram or a threshold heatmap with per-row targets (as of November 2026)

Featured visuals for supply chain dashboards

Each card links to a full reference page with example prompts, data shape, and DAX measures. Generate any of these in under 5 minutes by describing what you want — no code, no developer time.

Sankey Diagram

Goods flow from supplier through sites to customers.

Example: “Sankey of shipped units from supplier region to warehouse to customer region for the selected month, link width by units, links under 1% of …”

Heatmap

Days of cover by item and site.

Example: “Heatmap of days of inventory cover, items as rows (top 50 by demand), sites as columns, red under safety stock days, amber within 20% of it,…”

Bullet Chart

OTIF per carrier against contract target.

Example: “Bullet chart per carrier: OTIF % bar, contract target line per carrier, last quarter as a marker, sorted by gap to target.”

Pareto Chart

Supplier spend concentration.

Example: “Pareto of spend by supplier for the last 12 months, cumulative % line, marker where cumulative spend reaches 80%.”

SPC Control Chart

Lead-time stability by supplier.

Example: “SPC chart of supplier lead time in days per delivery, mean and ±3σ limits, points outside the limits in red.”

Calendar Heatmap

Daily shipments and exceptions.

Example: “Calendar heatmap of late shipments per day for the last 90 days, weekends muted, hover shows carrier split.”

Try one of these prompts

Click any prompt below to start a new visual. The prompt opens in your VizForge workspace pre-filled — edit it before generating, or generate as-is.

Example VizForge prompt

Inventory cover heatmap: top 50 items by demand as rows, warehouses as columns, colour by days of cover with red below the item's safety stock days.

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Example VizForge prompt

OTIF bullet chart per carrier with each carrier's own contract target as the target line and last quarter's OTIF as a dot.

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Example VizForge prompt

Supplier spend Pareto for the last 12 months with the 80% line and the number of suppliers inside it in the title.

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FAQ

Can targets differ per carrier or item?

Yes. Bind the target as a column or measure per row and say so in the prompt; the visual draws each row's own target instead of one line.

How much data can the visual take?

Power BI caps the rows sent to a custom visual (set in capabilities.json, typically a few thousand to 30,000). For item-level views, filter to top-N items in a measure or aggregate by category.

Will it refresh with DirectQuery?

Yes. The visual's update() runs on every refresh and interaction, whatever the storage mode of the model.

Are there free supply-chain templates?

Yes: supply-chain inventory, logistics delivery and procurement spend templates in the Design Studio, each with a sample model.

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Supply Chain dashboard jobs

Each page goes deep on one dashboard: the recommended custom visuals, the DAX measures behind them and ready-to-paste prompts.

Free supply chain dashboard templates

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Data sources for supply chain reports

Where this team's data usually lives, and how to get it into Power BI: connector status, the tables to load and KPIs with DAX.

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Synoptic panels for supply chain

Floor plans and site maps with regions coloured by a measure.

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