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Supply Chain Management KPIs: Metrics Inventory Performance (Udemy.com)

Key Performance Indicators: Measure & Improve the Performance of your Supply Chain and Inventory Operations Management

Created by: Laurence Gartside

Last updated November 2025

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What you will learn

  • Essential Supply Chain and Inventory Management KPIs
  • Key Areas of Supply Chain Performance
  • Specific Formula and Calculation Method for each KPI
  • The Fundamentals of Supply Chain Performance and Improvement
  • Metrics for Output, Inventory, Cashflow, Delivery, Quality, Lead Time, Costs and More

How it compares

Against the other 1,210 rated Udemy courses in Business on CourseDuck:

  • Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 46% of them
  • Reviews741#538 of 1,211 by number of reviews
  • Length2.9 hoursshorter than 49% of them
  • Last updatedNovember 2025more recently than 52% of them

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Course Description

The performance superpower: KPIs!

Key Performance Indicators are essential to anyone creating high performance in their supply chain. Whether you’re a logistics manager organising international shipments or an business looking to streamline your warehouse and retail performance, KPIs are one of the most effective business strategies for increasing profits, cashflow and customer satisfaction. This course is for anyone who takes their business skills and professional development seriously.

A good supply chain can deliver high output and high satisfaction while maintaining tight control on costs. KPIs give you a constructive method to track your performance, make better business decisions, identify improvement opportunities and monitor your progress.

This detailed and comprehensive course will help you to identify which key areas of supply chain management you need to have metrics for. Upskill yourself for a bigger role in driving better performance, higher profits and happier customers while keeping your employees safe, satisfied and productive.


Supply Chain KPIs:

This course provides you with a wide range of specific KPIs, practical tools and techniques to plan and structure your supply chain KPIs

From looking at how to effectively measure output for your business, to monitoring cashflow and balancing inventory levels, we’ll also explore how each of these fit into the higher business objectives of the company. We’ll talk about flexibility being an essential factor in a business’s success and how you can use time, capacity and inventory to build it into your operations, allowing you to cope with unexpected changes and disruptions.

Together we’ll cover the key areas of supply chain performance including how to create an integrated set of KPIs that complement each other, running a robust supply chain & how to present the data clearly using dashboards. We’ll cover vital supply chain issues like Costs of Goods Sold, Cash to Cash Cycle Time, Forecast Error and how wastage, dead stock and shrinkage can effect your profit. This course will make you and your team feel confident using this essential information to spot and react quickly to trends, make better business decisions and launch improvement initiatives.


About Laurence Gartside

Laurence Gartside is a management consultant and business operations coach with a master’s degree in manufacturing, engineering and management from the University of Cambridge. He has consulted for numerous major companies around the world and runs his own training company, Rowtons Training.


In this course, you will learn:

  • Practical tools and techniques that will improve every aspect of your supply chain

  • How to create complementary metrics that will work together to ensure the best possible outcomes

  • How to make sure your KPIs fit into the higher business objectives of the company

  • Tools to help you present your data in a clear and engaging way

  • How to monitor the output of your business

  • Easy ways to report on the critical financial aspects of the company - net profit, ROI and cashflow

  • To have a good overall picture of your supply chain

  • Why flexibility in your supply chain could make or break your business

  • How to reduce delays, decision tiers and uncertainty to ensure your supply chain is as efficient as possible

  • Know how wastage, dead stock and shrinkage could be holding your business back

  • Understand how customer lead time & On Time in Full (OTIF) percentage effect customer satisfaction

  • Learn how to effectively measure Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO), Days Sales Outstanding (DSO) and Days Payable Outstanding (DPO) to keep your cashflow healthy


Get your supply chain back on track with a set of KPIs that will increase profits, cashflow and customer satisfaction and transform your business TODAY!


Full Course Contents

  1. Introduction

Course Overview

Make a Difference with KPIs

Beer or Study?


2. Supply Chain Performance

Business Perspective - Metrics

Supply Chain Perspective

What We Want From a Supply Chain


3. Output and Inventory KPIs

KPIs - Introduction

Output

Inventory Levels - Simple Average

Inventory Levels - High Sampling

Cost of Goods Sold - COGS

Inventory Turns / Turnover / Velocity

Inventory Turns and Days Inventory Outstanding (DIO)

Inventory Turns Examples

Control Charts

Inventory Dollar Days and Throughput Dollar Days


4. Cashflow KPIs

Cashflow

Cash to Cash Cycle Time - Intro

DIO - Days Inventory Outstanding - Reminder

DSO - Days Sales Outstanding

DPO - Days Payable Outstanding

Cash to Cash Cycle Time - Example and Summary


5. Time KPIs

Measuring Time

Customer Lead Time / Order Fulfilment Cycle Time

Throughput Time


6. Supporting KPI Topics

Supporting KPI Topics - Introduction

Integrated / Complementary Metrics

Supply Chain Robustness, Flexibility and Risk

How to Improve a Supply Chain

Nearly There


7. Delivery and Satisfaction KPIs

Favors for the Delivery Man

More KPIs - Introduction

Fill Rate

Sell Through Rate

Stock-Outs

Lost Sales Due to Stock-Outs

On Time In Full % (OTIF)

Customer Satisfaction


8. Variation and Uncertainty KPIs

Measuring Variation & Uncertainty

Forecast Error - An Introduction

Forecast Error


9. Waste & Cost KPIs

Waste & Costs - Introduction

Wastage

Dead Stock

Holding Costs of Inventory

Shrinkage


10. KPI Dashboards

Presenting KPIs and Dashboards


11. Conclusion

Wrap Up

Conclusion and Connection


12. Bonus and Appendix

How to Get Your Certificate

What’s Next - Further Reading

Bonus Lecture



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Instructor Details

Laurence Gartside

Helping You Level-Up Your Business Operations


Consultant and Training in Business Operations Management


Through my company, "Rowtons Training", I provide concise and practical training in Industrial and Corporate Business Operations.


Specialising in Helping High-Volume Operations & Manufacturers to Increase Throughput, Capacity and Deliver Results


-Operations Management

-Business Performance Improvement

-Capacity Analysis and Increase


I work with senior management teams, supervisors, consultants, engineers and operators to improve their business systems; bringing structure, practical analysis and direct action to help your team make a big impact, fast.


My Udemy Training Courses:

- Operations Management A-Z

- Lean Manufacturing A-Z

- Supply Chain Management A-Z

- Logistics Management: International Freight and Shipping

- Inventory Management A-Z

- Safety Stock Inventory Calculation

- KPIs: Key Performance Indicators

- Supply Chain KPIs and Performance

- Demand & Capacity Management


In my courses, I teach the most valuable subject knowledge, in the least time, that you can really "use" to enhance your own career and business. All wrapped up with a few goofy jokes, silly stories and inappropriate examples!


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Reviews

4.5

741 ratings on Udemy

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By Antonio Macias on 11/13/2025

The course provides a general overview of Supply Chain metrics, and I loved the way the formulas are shown, simple and easy to digest. It will not work for a highly specialized learner, this is more of an introduction, I found it adequate for my purposes.

By John Adam Walker on 8/25/2025

Im in supply chain and this information is a good base for what im hoping is upcoming for my professional interests. Interesting to take into consideration that paying suppliers back at a longer rate is an increase in cashflow.

By Mohamed adel taha on 9/16/2024

it is easy and clear, only what is important that if there are some of files like excel sheets for examples to be more educational

By Mayank Kumar on 4/16/2024

It was a good guided KPIs understanding, Needed more practical explanation for a better understanding and using it in a day to day operations

By Eric Tremblay on 3/29/2024

I enjoyed this class, learning and applying KPI's is part of being a Power BI professionnel. What is a good KPI ? What is needed ? What is important ? I also enjoyed the teacher's delivery, the downloadable reference material and humour. Great work. Eric (Montreal, Canada)

By Sabine Rattay on 11/11/2023

Thank you so much for this great course on Supply Chain Management KPIs. It was a valuable overview and good summary presented in a lively manner. Now it is time to put into practice what I have learned.

By Abir Benchrouda on 7/13/2023

Une initiation au kpi Top! La présentation est trop riches de maniere à ce que je ne peux plus suivre et prendre des notes .. J'aurais aimé des ressources téléchargeables plus riches qui aident à mémoriser le cours. Apres tout on a payé ce cours alors ce n'est pas grave si plus d'explications y soient que je peux appliquer dans mon travail..

By Milena Marinov on 2/21/2023

Professional and very well built. The material is presented with examples and is easy to follow. I am enjoying every bit of the course.

By Alexis Murdoch on 7/30/2022

I love the detailed explanations and further given depth of each topic. I'm learning for work and your videos have boosted my overall understanding of my duties + future.

By Michelle Caranguian on 6/14/2021

The course was very informative and is also a good refresher. It is well paced, well explained, great overview and good value when breaking things down as well. The instructor is clearly knowledgeable and explains things quite coherently. The videos/lectures are broken down into easy-to-digest chunks and I got to learn a lot of new concepts. Would definitely recommend to anyone looking to form a knowledge base on supply chain management.

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