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KPIs: your key transport figures on one page

A short guide to the KPIs report: volume, cost, transit time, on-time performance and CO₂e by month, transport mode and lane.

What this report is for

The KPIs report gathers your most important transport figures on one page. Use it for monthly follow-ups and management reporting, or to answer questions like:

  • Are we shipping more or less, and is it getting more expensive?

  • How fast and how reliably do our shipments arrive?

  • Which transport mode drives our cost and emissions?

  • How do our heaviest lanes perform?

Filters

  • Period (top right): default is the last 12 months.

  • Mode: air, road or sea.

  • Lane: one or more routes (pickup country – delivery country).

  • Currency: filter shipments by the currency they were priced in.

  • Data as of: when the data was last updated.

The cards at the top

Card

What it shows

Shipments

Shipments registered in the period.

Transport cost

Cost of priced shipments. The subtitle shows how many shipments have a price.

Avg transit time (d)

Average days from pickup to delivery.

On-time delivery

Share of delivered shipments that arrived on time.

On-time pickup

Share of shipments picked up on the planned date.

The line under each value compares with the average of the previous 24 months. Green = better (lower cost, shorter transit, higher on-time), red = worse.

Tip: compare on-time pickup and on-time delivery. If pickup is on time but delivery isn’t, the delay happens in transit, not at your warehouse.

Cost and transport mode

Transport cost by month shows cost per month, split by air, road and sea. Look for months that stand out, and whether one mode is growing. The first and last months may be incomplete.

Share of shipments → Share of transport cost → Share of CO₂e. Read the three donuts from left to right; together they tell one story:

Air is 28% of your shipments… but 82% of your transport cost… and 94% of your CO₂e.

Moving even a small part of air volume to road or sea can lower both cost and emissions considerably.

Your heaviest lanes

The two charts at the bottom show the same 10 lanes: the ones where you ship the most weight. They’re in the same order, heaviest at the top, so you can read across from one chart to the other.

  • On-time delivery, 10 heaviest lanes: share of delivered shipments on time per lane. The subtitle names the weakest lane.

  • Average transit time (d), 10 heaviest lanes: average days from pickup to delivery. The subtitle names the slowest lane.

How to read them together:

On-time

Transit

What it usually means

High

Long

A long route that runs as planned, for example TW-TR: 7.3 days, but 100% on time. No action needed.

Low

Short

Short trips that still arrive late, for example SE-NO: 1.3 days, but only 11% on time. Check carrier, service and planned delivery dates.

Low

Long

Slow and unreliable. The strongest candidate for a carrier review.

Because the lanes are sorted by weight, problems at the top of the charts affect the most goods. Start there.

A lane without a bar (for example TW-TW on transit time) has no transit data for the period.

The subtitles also show how many shipments have the data needed (ETA for on-time, pickup and delivery dates for transit), so you know how complete each figure is.

Common questions

Why doesn’t transport cost cover all shipments?

Some shipments aren’t priced yet. The share is shown in the card’s subtitle.

Why does a lane have no bar?

There’s no data for that measure on that lane in the selected period.

Why are the first and last months lower?

The period may start or end in the middle of a month.

Can I export the data?

Hover over a chart → ⋯ → Export data.

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