NEW SMARTKPIS.COM REPORT RANKS THE TOP LOGISTICS AND DISTRIBUTION KPIS OF 2011-2012
May 30, 2013, Melbourne, Australia – The KPI Institute, the global authority on Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) research and education announces the launch of a new report in its 2011-2012 edition of its popular Top 25 series of reports. The series is based on research conducted through www.smartKPIs.com, which contains over 20,000 Key Performance Indicator examples, making it the world’s largest source of thoroughly documented KPIs.
Logistics and Distribution is an important business development area in most organizations across the world. Logistics and Distribution managers are required to have a clear vision and to deliver results under strict deadlines, whether inside the organization’s premises or delivery of shipments outside the premises of the organization. Logistics and Distribution is the combination of movement of goods and warehousing operations, responsible for storing and delivering products. It involves the physical distribution of the company’s products to other distributors or directly to end customers. The KPIs in this area monitor the time efficiency of the distribution, as well as the quality of movement and warehousing operation of the goods.
The “Top 25 Logistics and Distribution KPIs of 2011-2012” report compiles the most popular 25 KPIs used by the Logistics and Distribution function. Out of more than 470 Logistics and Distribution KPIs available on smartKPIs.com, the 25 most viewed by the members and visitors of smartKPIs.com were selected and analyzed in detail in this report.
Logistics and Distribution KPIs are grouped into subcategories such as: Logistics Costs, Transportation, Delivery Quality, Order Processing, Warehousing and Material Handling. From these subcategories, Logistics Costs, Transportation and Delivery Quality were the most popular of Logistics and Distribution in 2011. This might illustrate that optimizing the logistics costs while improving transportation methods and increasing customer satisfaction is an area of interest for many organizations.
The top 5 Logistics and Distribution KPIs of 2011-2012 in this report are:
- % On-time delivery
- % Order fill rate
- % Recovery yield rate of returned products
- % Delivery deadlines met
- % Perfect order delivery rate
Among the benefits of this report, it is important to mention the international perspective it offers on the most popular KPIs for Logistics and Distribution Management. The Top 25 Logistics and Distribution KPIs of 2011-2012 report is a valuable resource in promoting the informed use of KPIs or refreshing the existing performance measurement and management practice in any organization.
According to Aurel Brudan, The KPI Institute’s CEO “The Top 25 Logistics and Distribution KPIs of 2011-2012” report is a synthesis of what smartKPIs.com is all about: it provides an overview of how Logistics and Distribution KPIs are used in practice today, by combining input from the online community with analysis and insights from our research team.”
ABOUT SMARTKPIS.COM
http://www.smartkpis.com is the leading online platform for performance management knowledge integration, hosting the largest database of thoroughly documented KPI examples available on the web today. It offers high quality resources and collaboration functionality for the community of members, assisting them in making smart decisions regarding their performance management initiatives. Registration is free and enables research, learning and interaction as part of a growing community of members from over 190 countries and territories.
ABOUT THE KPI INSTITUTE
The KPI Institute is a research, publishing and educational provider specialized in developing better practice in the use of KPIs. It developed the KPI Management Framework and runs five main research programs, dedicated to performance management, the Balanced Scorecard, KPIs, analytics and organizational strategy. Over the last 8 years, The Institute assisted over 5,000 organizations in finding solutions to their KPI needs.
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