Supply Chain Dashboard

What is a Supply Chain Dashboard?

Are your supply chain operations running on spreadsheets? If you're struggling to connect data from different sources and manually updating reports, it’s easy to miss crucial insights. A supply chain dashboard brings all your key metrics together in one place, giving you a real-time, visual overview of your operational health. This clarity helps you spot inefficiencies, manage inventory better, and make faster, data-driven decisions.

This dashboard is essential for leaders and managers in any company that handles physical goods, from growing consumer goods brands to established construction and materials firms.

• For small businesses, it’s the next step after outgrowing spreadsheets, automating manual work and reducing errors.
• For mid-sized companies, it provides a single source of truth that aligns procurement, inventory, and sales teams, ensuring everyone is working from the same up-to-date information.

Key supply chain KPIs to track

A powerful supply chain dashboard moves beyond simple data points to track Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) that reveal the true health of your operations. Here are a few essential KPIs to get you started:

• Units Per Transaction (UPT): This metric calculates the average number of items sold in each transaction. Monitoring UPT helps you understand purchasing behaviour, measure the success of promotions, and identify opportunities for cross-selling and up-selling.
• Inventory Turnover: This KPI measures how many times your company has sold and replaced its inventory over a specific period. A high turnover rate is generally a good sign, indicating strong sales. A low rate may point to overstocking or challenges with a particular product line.
• Inventory to Sales Ratio: This ratio compares the value of your on-hand inventory to the value of total sales. It's a critical indicator of inventory management efficiency. A balanced ratio ensures you have enough stock to meet demand without tying up too much capital in unsold goods.

Tracking these KPIs on a dashboard gives your team a centralized, always-connected view of performance. When your data is in one place, beautifully presented, and automatically refreshed, you can stop wasting time on manual reporting and start focusing on strategic decisions that drive growth. Build your first dashboard with Klipfolio Klips and get everyone on the same page.