Key performance indicators (KPIs) are the elements of your organization’s plan that express what
outcomes you are seeking and how you will measure their success.
Finance KPIs and metrics
Gross Profit Margin: How much revenue you have left after COGS?
Operating Profit Margin: How is your EBIT developing over time?
Operating Expense Ratio: How do you optimize your operating expenses?
Fixed Operating Expenses: What are the fixed costs of your operations?
Variable Operating Expenses: What are the highest variable costs?
Operating Expenses Development: How are your operating costs developing?
Net Profit Margin: How well your company increases its net profit?
Working Capital: Is your company in stable financial health?
Current Ratio: Can you pay your short-term obligations?
Quick Ratio / Acid Test: Is your company’s liquidity healthy?
Berry Ratio: Are you losing money or generating profit?
Cash Conversion Cycle: How fast can you convert resources into cash?
Accounts Payable Turnover: Are you paying expenses at a reasonable speed?
Accounts Receivable Turnover: How quickly do you collect payments?
Vendor Payment Error Rate: Are you processing your invoices productively?
Budget Variance: Is your budgeting accurate and realistic?
Actual vs Forecast Expenses: Are you meeting your expected costs?
Actual vs Forecast Income: Are you reaching your expected revenue?
Return on Assets: Do you utilize your company’s assets efficiently?
Return on Equity: How much profit do you generate for shareholders?
Economic Value Added: Do you generate true economic profit?
Employee Satisfaction: Will your team recommend you as a workplace?
Payroll Headcount Ratio: How do you utilize your labor force?
Sales KPIs and metrics
Sales Growth: Is your business growing steadily?
Sales Target: Are you on track regarding the sales targets?
Customer Acquisition Cost: How much does a new customer cost?
Average Revenue per Unit: What is your average revenue per user?
Customer Lifetime Value: How much do you expect to earn per customer?
Customer Churn Rate: How many customers do you lose?
Average Sales Cycle Length: How do you shorten your sales cycle?
Lead-to-Opportunity Ratio: How about your lead quality?
Opportunity-to-Win Ratio: How many qualified leads result in closing a deal?
Lead Conversion Ratio: Is your conversion ratio stable?
Number of Sales Opportunities: What is your potential purchase volume?
Sales Opportunity Score: Do you prioritize your sales opportunities?
Average Purchase Value: Is your average purchase value sustainable?
Sales Volume by Country: Which are your target countries?
Revenue & Profit per Product: Which are your most profitable products?
Revenue per Sales Rep: How much revenue do your sales rep bring?
Profit Margin per Sales Rep: Is your sales team profitable as expected?
NPS per Sales Rep: Are sales reps offering a good service?
Upsell & Cross-Sell Rates: How do you increase your revenue and ROI?
Incremental Sales by Campaign: Which campaign brings you the best results?
Human resource KPIs and metrics
Absenteeism Rate: Evaluate the engagement of your employees
Overtime Hours: Monitor your employees' workload in detail
Training Costs: Analyze the investments in your employees
Salary Cost By Department: Breakdown your total salary costs
Salary Cost Development By Department: See department salary-revenue ratios
Salary Cost Development By Country: Analyze salary-revenue ratios per country
Employee Productivity: Track the overall effectiveness of your workforce
Talent Satisfaction: Ensure your employees are satisfied in the long run
Manager Feedback Score: See if employees are satisfied with their managers
Cost per Hire: Analyze what it takes to find the perfect fit
Recruiting Conversion Rate: Find the best recruitment method
Time to Fill: Monitor how long you need to find a new employee
Headcount Development: Monitor vacancies and new hires
Average Job Tenure: Analyze how long employees stay in the company
Talent Rating: Assess the quality of your employees
Employee Turnover Rate: See how your retention efforts work
Talent Turnover Rate: Evaluate how many talents you continually change
Turnover Rate By Group: Monitor if your diversity groups are satisfied
Dismissal Rate: Find out if you’re recruiting the right employees
Female to Male Ratio: Understand the gender diversity in your company
Gender Diversity by Role: Track gender share in managerial positions
Gender Ratio By Department: Track gender share across departments
Ethnicity Diversity: Discover how diverse your departments are
Recruitment Breakdown By Ethnicity: Ensure a diverse recruitment process
Part-Time Employees: Watch the evolution of part-time workers over time
Average Time Stay: See how long your employees stay in your company
Marketing KPIs and metrics
Cost per Acquisition: Are your customer acquisition costs viable?
Cost per Lead: How much should you spend per lead?
Sales Target & Growth: Is your sales growing and reaching its targets?
Average Order Value: What is the average shopping cart value?
ROI: How efficiently are you spending your marketing dollars?
Customer Lifetime Value: Are new customers profitable in the long-run?
Website-Traffic-to-Lead Ratio: How does your website convert?
Lead-to-MQL Ratio: How does the marketing qualify your generated leads?
MQL-to-SQL Ratio: Which requirements has the sales team for your leads?
Goal Conversion Rate: How well are you hitting your business objectives?
Average Time to Conversion: How fast your visitors convert?
Landing Page Conversion Rate: What pages and content are performing best?
Cost per Click: Are you getting the most bang for your buck?
Bounce Rate: Do your visitors find what they are looking for?
Engagement Rate: How well do users respond to your content?
Click Through Rate: Are your ads and content resulting in attention?
Customer service KPIs and metrics
Average Response Time: Measure the time your customers are on hold
First Call Resolution: Avoid customers calling back for the same issue
Average Resolution Time: Monitor the time it takes to solve an issue
Cost Per Resolution: Track the costs of solving issues
Customer Churn: Ensure your customers keep doing business with you
Top Support Agents: Find out who is your star agent in the team
Number of Issues: Monitor the number and nature of issues over time
Total & Solved Tickets By Channel: Keep track of ticket’s status
Abandon Rate: Learn how many customers leave without a solution
Customer Satisfaction: Get insights on what your clients' think about you
Net Promoter Score: Evaluate the power of your referrals
Customer Effort Score: Get valuable feedback on the customer experience
Customer Retention: Evaluate how many customers are coming back
Net Retention Rate: Calculate how much business growth you generate
Service Level: See if you deliver the services as you committed to
Support Costs vs Revenue: Monitor support costs in percentage of revenue
Revenue Churn: Track how much revenue you’ve lost from existing customers
MRR Growth Rate: Keep an eye on your recurring revenue at all times
Procurement KPIs and metrics
Compliance Rate: Understand if suppliers fulfill your requirements
Number of Suppliers: Track your level of dependency towards your suppliers
Purchase Order Cycle Time: Know who to address your urgent orders to
Purchase Price Variance: Track standard vs actual purchasing price
Purchase Order Coverage: Monitor if invoices match to purchase orders
Supplier Quality Rating: Analyze the quality of your suppliers
Supplier Availability: Measure suppliers’ capacity to respond to demand
Supplier Defect Rate: Evaluate your suppliers’ individual quality
Vendor Rejection Rate & Costs: Examine your quality management strategies
Lead Time: Understand the total time to fulfill an order
Emergency Purchase Ratio: Track the number of your emergency purchases
Purchases In Time & Budget: Monitor purchasing time & budget
Cost of Purchase Order: Control the internal costs incurred by each purchase
Procurement Cost Reduction: Streamline the tangible costs savings
Procurement Cost Avoidance: Avoid potential extra costs in the future
Maverick Spend: Monitor your non-contracted spending
Spend Under Management: Track and optimize your expenditures
Procurement ROI: Determine the profitability of investments
IT KPIs and metrics
Total vs. Open Tickets: Do you measure the ticket churn over time?
Projects Delivered on Budget: Can you keep your budget within limits?
Average Handle Time: How do you keep your tasks under control?
New Developed Features: How many features do you continually develop?
Number of Critical Bugs: How many bugs do you regularly encounter?
Server Downtime: Do you know why and when downtime happens?
Backup Frequency: How frequently do you back up your data?
Cyber Security Rating: How is your overall security strategy?
Amount Of Intrusion Attempts: What frequency & type of threats do you face?
Mean Time To Detect: How long it takes you to detect an attack threat?
Mean Time to Repair: How efficiently you deal with unexpected events?
Phishing Test Success Rate: Are your employees aware of potential threats?
Unsolved Tickets per Employee: Do you monitor employee’s effectiveness?
Reopened Tickets: Are you handling your tickets efficiently?
IT Support Employees per End Users: Do you have enough IT support?
Accuracy of Estimates: Do you estimate your team’s time correctly?
IT ROI: How profitable are your investments?
IT Costs Break Down: Are you able to identify your costs’ breakdown?
IT Costs vs. Revenue: Do you compare your IT expenses to your revenue?
Team Attrition Rate: Do you manage to keep talented employees?
Healthcare KPIs and metrics
Average Hospital Stay: Evaluate the amount of time patients are staying
Bed Occupancy Rate: Monitor the availability of hospital beds
Medical Equipment Utilization: Track the utilization of your equipment
Patient Drug Cost Per Stay: Improve cost management of medications
Treatment Costs: Calculate how much a patient costs to your facility
Operating Cash Flow: Monitor the financial health of your facility
Net Profit Margin: Ensure your facility remains profitable
Patient Room Turnover Rate: Balance the turnover with speed and quality
Patient Follow-up Rate: Measure the care for your patients over time
Hospital Readmission Rates: Track how many patients are coming back
Patient Wait Time: Monitor waiting times to increase patient satisfaction
Patient Satisfaction: Analyze patient satisfaction in detail
Claims Denial Rate: Ensure medical costs are covered
Treatment Error Rate: Make sure you provide the right treatment
Patient Mortality Rate: Prevent patient mortality under your care
Staff-to-Patient Ratio: Ensure you have enough staff to care for patients
Canceled/missed appointments: Keep track of patients’ appointments
Patient Safety: Prevent incidents happening in your facility
ER Wait Time: Identify rush hours in your emergency room
Costs by Payer: Understand the type of health insurance of your patients
Logistics KPIs and metrics
Shipping Time: Spot potential issues in your order fulfillment process
Order Accuracy: Monitor the degree of incidents
Picking Accuracy: How many orders are picked without errors?
Delivery Time: Track your average delivery time in detail
Pick & Pack Cycle Time: Track the time it takes to pick and pack your orders
Order Cycle Time: Monitor the time it takes to ship an order
Equipment Utilization Rate: Is your equipment enough for your workforce?
Trailer Utilization Rate: Monitor the percentage of trailer space being utilized
Transportation Costs: Analyze all costs from the order placement to delivery
Dwell Time: Reduce the time drivers are waiting to drop off or pick up orders
Inventory Carrying Costs: Track all related costs of storing unsold inventory
Warehousing Costs: Optimize the expenses of your warehouse
Pick & Pack Costs: Monitor all costs related to your pick & pack process
Operating Ratio: Track the profitability of your operations
Use of Packing Material: Optimize your materials usage
Number of Shipments: Understand how many orders are shipped
Inventory Accuracy: Avoid problems because of inaccurate inventory
Inventory Turnover: Track how many times your entire inventory is sold
Inventory to Sales Ratio: Identify a potential overstock
Manufacturing KPIs and metrics
Production Volume: Track the quantities that you are able to produce
Production Downtime: Analyze and optimize your maintenance
Production Costs: Monitor the costs implied in the production
Overall Operations Effectiveness (OOE): Evaluate your operational efficiency
Overall Equipment Effectiveness (OEE): Assess the scheduled efficiency
Total Effective Equipment Performance (TEEP): Track overall effectiveness
Capacity Utilization: Maximize the use of your capacities
Throughput: Measure your production capabilities
First Pass Yield: Monitor your production quality
Scrap Rate: Track the amount of failed units
Defect Density: Track the damaged items right away
Rate of Return: Measure how many items are sent back
On-time Delivery: Ensure your products are delivered on time
Right First Time: Understand the performance of your production process
Asset Turnover: Acknowledge your assets in relation to your revenue
Unit Costs: Track and optimize your units costs over time
Return on Assets: See how profitable your business is relative to its assets
Maintenance Costs: Evaluate your equipment costs in the long run
Revenue Per Employee: Measure the success of your workforce
Retail KPIs and metrics
Website Traffic/Foot Traffic: Evaluate your marketing and ads’ efforts
Average Transaction Size: Analyze the purchasing behavior of customers
Average Units per Customer: Get insights on customer behavior trends
Total Volume of Sales: Track your sales numbers over time
Sell-through Rate: Compare the inventory received and sold
Back Order Rate: Measure the ability to fulfill customer orders
Rate of Return: Evaluate the number of orders returned to you
Customer Retention: Learn how to keep customers in the long run
Retail Conversion Rate: Improve your retail conversions
Total Orders: See the evolution of orders placement
Total Sales by Region: Evaluate how much you sell and where
Order Status: Track and analyze your orders in real-time
Perfect Order Rate: See how many orders are delivered without incidents
Return Reason: Get insights on why customers return their orders
GMROI: Track the relation between investments and returns
Monthly Revenue Per Employee: Evaluate the value of your employees
FMCG KPIs and metrics
Out of Stock Rate: Measure your ability to meet customer demand
Delivered On-Time & In-Full: Monitor the delivery performance
Average Time To Sell: Track how long you need to sell your products
Sold Products Within Freshness Date: Take care of expiration dates
Cash-to-Cash Cycle Time: Analyze your cash cycle time in detail
Supply Chain Costs: Understand supply chain costs by category
Supply Chain Costs vs Sales: Compare your supply chain costs against sales
Carrying Cost of Inventory: Assess the costs your inventory holds
On-Shelf Availability: Measure the impact on your sales
Margin by Product Category: Identify your most profitable products