Identification of Critical Operational Performance Measures - a Research Note on a Benchmarking Study in the Transportation and Distribution Sector

In this paper the results are presented of an empirical benchmarking study investigating which operational performance measures in the transportation and distribution sector are most important for financial performance. In the existing literature, the selection of operational performance measures is mostly derived from strategy, using interviews and discussions with management. The main contribution of this paper is to show how an application of benchmarking can identify the relative importance of different operational performance measures and to set standards for those measures