Logistics performance is within a certain period of operation of the logistics enterprises operating efficiency and operator of logistics performance, logistics performance is a business based on customer requirements in the organization of logistics in the process of occupation and labor consuming and labor created by the comparison with the value of logistics .
Logistics control objective is to track the performance of poor planning and operations to identify opportunities to improve efficiency and effectiveness. Although the traditional functional areas of logistics is still applied to measure the prospects, but in today's competitive environment, there is a direction of being more and more attention has been paid. This direction is considered necessary to complete the total cost of customer orders, which can more effectively identify and assess the cost interchangeable. Logistics performance measurement is divided into internal performance measurement indicators, external indicators of performance measurement and performance metrics. Focus on internal performance measurement process of the activities and operations and goals with the previous comparison. As the source of management information easier to understand and facilitate the collection, so often used.
Internal performance measure is to focus on all customer service activities for improving the performance, motivation and reward employees are necessary. But this is to demonstrate the efficiency of internal processes, not very good, especially from the customer's point of view to examine the effect of an external process. Therefore, we must consider the external performance metrics.