Key Performance Indicators for Food and Drink Supply Chains

Abstract:

This document is a Benchmarking Guide written by the Department for Transport on 'Key Performance Indicators for Food and Drink Supply Chains'.

As far back as 1992 the Department of the Environment supported a project on improving vehicle aerodynamics through the Energy Efficiency Best Practice programme. This was followed by the establishment of a discrete transport efficiency programme in 1994, which by 2005 had evolved into the Freight Best Practice Programme.

The 2007 Survey is a natural progression in a line of similar work all aimed at providing operators with accurate, reliable measures by which their own performance can be compared with the results achieved by others. For the first time the remit has been extended to include the drinks sector, and there is a commitment to carry out a further survey in 2009.

The overall aim of this Survey, and previous ones, was to:

For the 2007 Survey the activities of almost 9,000 vehicles - tractors units, trailers, and rigids - were closely monitored and recorded. These vehicles were operating in the food and drinks sectors, and covered the movement of product from producers to the ultimate point of sale. The data gathered enabled the operational efficiency of those vehicles to be analysed, and measures of that efficiency, i.e. Key Performance Indicators were established.

Comparisons with previous surveys will show general trends and highlight the way that the supply process for food has changed in the last decade or so. However, there were differences in the fleet mix between 1998, 2002 and 2007, both at sector and sub-sector level, and so it is impossible to be sure that the results represent an absolute 'like for like' comparison.

1. Introduction
2. The Key Performance Indicators
3. Conclusions
4. Glossary of Terms

Publication Year:

2007

Publisher:

Department for Transport

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Author(s):

DfT