Materials is the root cause of at least 80% of missed delivery commitments. The only way to effectively drive consistent on-time delivery performance is by ruthlessly focusing on materials. Fortunately, material processes are very data-driven and can be successfully managed with a just a handful of crucial KPIs. The 4 crucial KPIs are:
1. Late Buy Actions
2. Items in Compression
3. Late Vendor POs
4. Push/Pull/Cancel Messages