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15. Final Project: Blinkit Maharashtra Monthly Report

15.1 Project Brief and Data

Brief. Blinkit and Amazon Now (fictional data) want one monthly report for Ganeshotsav month, September 2026, covering the six cities. The report is for Ravindra Bagale (regional lead) and the six city managers. It must answer:

  1. What were Net Sales, Delivered Orders, AOV and Cancellation Rate for the month?
  2. Which city and which area contributed most? Which is below target?
  3. How did daily sales move during Ganeshotsav (festival spike expected from 14-09-2026, the start of the festival in this fictional data)?
  4. Which categories (Dairy, Fruits, Sweets, Pooja Items, Snacks…) sold most per city?
  5. Are deliveries within the 12-minute promise in every city?

Input files (you create them with fictional rows):

File / sheet Rows (suggested) Columns
Raw_Orders 300–500 Order ID, Order Date, City, Area, Store ID, Product, Qty, Amount, Delivery Mins, Status, Customer, Phone
Stores 12 (2 per city) Store ID, Platform, City, Area, City Manager, Manager Email
Products 25 Product, Category, Unit Price
Targets 6 City, Monthly Target

Use only these people: Ravindra Bagale, Shraddha Bagale, Ruhi Bagale, Shahrukh, Amir, Salman, Zoya, Ravina, Raja, Rani, with @example.com e-mails. Areas: Pune (Kothrud, Hinjewadi, Baner, Hadapsar, Wakad), Nashik (College Road, Gangapur Road), Nagpur (Dharampeth, Sitabuldi), Kolhapur (Rajarampuri, Tarabai Park), Solapur (Hotgi Road, Murarji Peth), Sambhaji Nagar (CIDCO, Nirala Bazar).

Steps to prepare the raw data (deliberately messy)

  1. Type or generate the rows; then damage about 10% of them on purpose: extra spaces, "pune/PUNE", "Aurangabad" for Sambhaji Nagar, text amounts like "Rs. 450", US-style dates, 5–8 duplicate rows, a few blank Delivery Mins, phone numbers with +91 and spaces.
  2. Keep a copy of this untouched sheet as Raw_Orders and never edit it.
  3. Write the five questions above on a Notes sheet with KPI definitions (Module 13.1).

Worked example – a few raw rows.

Order ID Order Date City Amount Status
blk-9001 14-09-2026 pune Rs. 450 delivered
BLK-9002 09/14/2026 Aurangabad 1,299 Delivered
BLK-9001 14-09-2026 pune Rs. 450 delivered

Ravindra Bagale's Tip

Many students take already-clean data for their project – then in the interview they have no answer to "what challenges did you face?" Deliberately create messy data and write down every problem and its fix on a Notes sheet. That is the real "story" of your project.

Practice task

Create the four input sheets with fictional data for September 2026 and introduce at least eight different data-quality problems into Raw_Orders. List each problem on the Notes sheet.