{"id":358,"date":"2016-01-12T12:52:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:52:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/en.advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/?p=358"},"modified":"2016-01-12T12:52:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T11:52:31","slug":"the-importance-of-metrics-for-logistics-managers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/2016\/01\/12\/the-importance-of-metrics-for-logistics-managers\/","title":{"rendered":"The importance of metrics for logistics managers"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_359\" style=\"width: 710px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a ref=\"magnificPopup\" href=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/metrics.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-359\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-359 size-full\" title=\"Fleet management scoreboard\" src=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/metrics.jpg\" alt=\"Indicators\" width=\"700\" height=\"322\" srcset=\"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/metrics.jpg 700w, https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/3\/2016\/01\/metrics-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 700px) 100vw, 700px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-359\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Metrics for Logistics Managers<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Some of the words that we commonly hear\u00a0in\u00a0meetings\u00a0are KPI\u00b4s, Metrics and Indicators. But I am not so sure\u00a0if people understand the real significance that they have and how\u00a0crucial they are for the success of a <span style=\"color: #000080\"><a style=\"color: #000080\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.driv.in\/en\/how-route-optimization-saves-company-money\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">company<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">&#8211; How do you know that you are doing a good job managing your fleet?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the factor of utilization of your vehicles?<br \/>\n&#8211; What is the cost per unit delivered?<br \/>\n&#8211; How efficient is your company regarding deliveries?<br \/>\n&#8211; How many deliveries do you make a day? How long do you take? What is your fulfillment rate of your deliveries?<br \/>\n&#8211; What indicators do you use to measure how you are managing your department?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Answering the above questions can be a good starting point to elaborate the KPIs you require to measure your performance, so you can show your boss that you are doing a good job. For this, you need to determine what you really want to measure and check if it is useful to increment the efficiency and productivity of your business, because not all that can be measure is actually useful.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">One of the key issues of an organization is to implement systems that can deliver indicators of the performance that are\u00a0held both internally and externally, considering the whole supply chain (Inventory, Storage, Transport, Distribution, Customer service etc).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span id=\"hs-cta-wrapper-bd1be531-a6d8-4c82-883c-81dade6731db\" class=\"hs-cta-wrapper\" style=\"color: #000080\"><span id=\"hs-cta-bd1be531-a6d8-4c82-883c-81dade6731db\" class=\"hs-cta-node hs-cta-bd1be531-a6d8-4c82-883c-81dade6731db\"><a id=\"cta_button_1546224_26431e08-9d95-49fc-9e8c-4e50c173d3b8\" class=\"cta_button \" style=\"color: #000080\" title=\"Watch the demo video\" href=\"http:\/\/cta-service-cms2.hubspot.com\/ctas\/v2\/public\/cs\/c\/?cta_guid=26431e08-9d95-49fc-9e8c-4e50c173d3b8&amp;placement_guid=bd1be531-a6d8-4c82-883c-81dade6731db&amp;portal_id=1546224&amp;redirect_url=APefjpH1mXcRH_baamJps1T1rB5WDQdLHoJWKU9WjUTL2JvvzqVaaIisE5ZVe5YsZf6K6IHAcGQ0B23CNB12aogwz51NEt3eSiE702sWSRcu0WitKHYfMmefPGMoyoNH48_uHklKHwSbpj_TwX4dTNTBCQ7mJVFGN9cnM0JGR-mwOaoywNE_xxOWUo-k1LNjobUJu9UR24LS7EprhRkW3FnWmaABMnb-1YMAqTqewuYRB6o2hML9ql4mrqMo6b1zaNL5Xgk-jbHWwOenpnnETeCbFFqTfJ4AgA&amp;hsutk=546d8efa0e8a8241562f5f211a9a50e3&amp;utm_referrer=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.driv.in%2Fen%2Fthe-importance-of-metrics-for-logistics-managers&amp;canon=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.driv.in%2Fen%2Fthe-importance-of-metrics-for-logistics-managers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Watch the demo video<\/a><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Measuring is important, but knowing how to do it correctly is decisive. Implementing KPIs that measure the efficiency on\u00a0a simple scale is one of the biggest challenges that logistics managers face.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><strong>If it can be measured, it can be improved<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">Metrics helps to identify problems or situations that can be improved and provides information to take actions over them. They help us be more efficient, productive and improve our position against our competitors. The important thing is to be able to implement, monitor and evaluate on an ongoing basis.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\">What metrics do you use to evaluate the performance of your area? Let me know by leaving a comment below.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000080\"><a style=\"color: #000080\" href=\"http:\/\/www.driv.in\/en\/home-3\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">driv.in<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some of the words that we commonly hear\u00a0in\u00a0meetings\u00a0are KPI\u00b4s, Metrics and Indicators. But I am not so sure\u00a0if people understand the real significance that they have and how\u00a0crucial they are for the success of a company. &#8211; How do you know that you are doing a good job managing your fleet? &#8211; What is the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18],"tags":[32,67,68],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/advancedfleetmanagementconsulting.com\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}