Having a sound order management strategy goes a long way to ensuring your business is succeeding. This means that your customers are happy and their level of satisfaction is high.
But how do you measure this?
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Luckily, there are some key order management performance metrics that can help you answer this question with in-depth information.
Here are 7 order management performance metrics you should measure to ensure your brand’s overall success.
The cost per order, also called cost per purchase, is the total calculated cost it takes to fulfill an order.
Some common and overlooked order costs include:
A high cost per order can chip away at your profit margins and jeopardize the long-term viability of your company if it goes unchecked. So how do you combat high cost per order? One tactic that companies use is putting in place minimum order quantities.
The second order management performance metric that’s important to track is fulfillment accuracy rate. This refers to the rate customers orders are filled without any errors. Now we know it’s both impossible and unrealistic to reach a 100% order accuracy rate, but your rate should be as close to 100% as possible. Having a low fulfillment accuracy rate will mean that your business needs to review its current fulfillment processes and address the issue before you fall behind your competitors.
Rate of return is an order management performance metric that calculates the percentage of shipped items that are returned back to you. Having a high rate of return can mean a number of different things for your brand. It can mean that your product quality is low, or your customers weren’t happy with what they received because it didn’t meet their expectations. Having a high return rate also means that your staff have to spend more time processing returns and that can bring on more additional costs for your company.
Order fulfillment is defined as the complete process from point of sales inquiry to delivery of a product to the customer. Your order fulfillment cycle time shows how good your brand is at fulfilling your customers orders in as short of a time period as possible. Getting your products to your customers as quickly as possible goes a long way in ensuring customer satisfaction.
Perfect order rate is an order management performance metric that measures how many orders you ship without incident. Incidents can include damaged products/goods, delayed shipments, and inaccurate orders. If you have a low perfect order rate, your order fulfillment process and shipping methods need to be reviewed immediately. A perfect order rate of 90% is typically seen and that means only 10% of orders have some sort of issue. Now 10% might not seem like a lot, but minimizing these errors will go a long way in keeping your customers happy.
On-time shipping rate is calculated by dividing the total number of orders delivered by the number of deliveries that arrived after the promised delivery date. This KPI shows how smoothly your order fulfillment and shipping process works. If it takes a longer amount of time to get your goods processed and shipped out, customer dissatisfaction may arise.
Ever since the COVID-19 pandemic first started, shipping delays have impacted almost every industry due to supply chain bottlenecks. Even now in 2022, this problem is still evident. For example, Amazon Canada customers are facing shipping delays due to lockdown measures impacting the Chinese city of Shenzhen. Shenzhen is China’s tech hub and just recently got out of a seven-day lockdown that has disrupted global supply chains. Work has resumed in Shenzhen, but as we saw last year with the Suez Canal blockage, it could take weeks or even months for industries to catch up.
Scrap rate is a KPI that can be calculated by taking the number of scrapped orders and comparing it to the total number of returns. A high scrap rate means that when your products are returned by customers, your business is losing a lot of money that can’t be recovered. The time spent on the product and shipping costs are all gone at this point. Changing how your goods are packaged can help greatly with bringing down your scrap rate.
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With our comprehensive platform and easy-to-use interface, we aim to solve the recurring inventory and sales order problems of manufacturers, wholesalers, and retailers.
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