Choosing five warehouse KPIs your team will open every Monday

Most warehouses we visit already track more than twenty measures. Few of those measures appear in the Monday standup. The gap is not a lack of data visualisation; it is a lack of ownership.

Start with the decisions the standup must make: release overtime, open a second put-away lane, escalate a carrier, or freeze a SKU for recount. Attach one measure to each decision. If a measure does not change a decision, park it on a monthly pack.

Five measures cover most southern Vietnam sites we support: order cycle time, inventory accuracy, dock dwell (split clocks), lines picked per productive hour, and perfect order rate outbound. Adjust names to match your existing definitions rather than inventing new jargon.

Print the five on one page. Digital boards help, yet a paper sheet on the supervisor desk still travels better through humid dock offices than a login-gated screen.