pydatafaker.business.create_po_table

pydatafaker.business.create_po_table(vendor_id, mean_po_amount=1000000, sd_po_amount=250000, n=100)[source]

Create a table of fake purchase orders (PO).

Parameters

  • vendor_id (list) – A list of vendor ids to randomly assign to employees.

  • n (int, optional) – The number of additional POs to create in excess of 1 PO for each vendor. By default 100.

  • mean_po_amount (int, optional) – Mean value for normal distribution, by default 1_000_000.

  • sd_po_amount (int, optional) – Standard deviation value for normal distribution, by default 250_000.

Returns

A dataframe containing: po_id, vendor_id, and po_amount

Return type

pandas.DataFrame

Examples

>>> from pydatafaker import business
>>> business.create_po_table(['vendor_1', 'vendor_2'], n=3)
    po_id vendor_id  po_amount
0  po_00001  vendor_1     913350
1  po_00002  vendor_2     852461
2  po_00003  vendor_2    1355507
3  po_00004  vendor_1    1064312
4  po_00005  vendor_1    1017772