Logistics measures a lot and decides little, because the numbers arrive aggregated at month end when they are no longer useful. The view that helps is the one showing today what is going wrong, while you can still call somebody.
Ninety five per cent on time looks excellent until you look at where the other five per cent sits. If it concentrates on one important customer or one lane, that is not a good result with some exceptions, it is a serious problem hidden inside an average.
This is the number that connects operations directly to margin. A vehicle leaving half empty has already eaten the profit on the trip. Measuring it by lane and by day of the week almost always reveals recurring patterns that planning can address.
A vehicle full by volume and light by weight is full, but an indicator based only on weight declares it empty. Looking at only one of the two dimensions leads to bad loading decisions, and it is a very common mistake in sector dashboards built by people who do not know the sector.
Almost nobody calculates it with accessorials included: waiting time at loading, failed deliveries, redeliveries, storage. Those are the lines that turn an apparently profitable customer into one that loses money, and they are also the only ones you can renegotiate with an argument in hand.
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