A warehouse can be measured a hundred ways. Five numbers usually carry every decision worth making.

Stock accuracy

The share of SKUs where the shelf and the system agree. Below 98 percent, every other number is a guess.

On-time orders

Not how fast, but how often the promise held.

Pick accuracy

One wrong item costs two shipments and one customer.

Age of returns

How many days a returned item sits before it is sellable stock again.

Space utilisation

A warehouse at 95 percent sounds efficient until an inbound shipment has nowhere to go.

A number that has never changed what anyone did that day is decoration, not a metric.