Our very own Bryan Jensen recently published an article about proper benchmarking in the July 2025 issue of Modern Materials Handling. He talks about how to properly assess common distribution center benchmarks, such as throughput, accuracy, storage density, and shrink percentages. Use the link below to read the article!

You should pose some very simple questions when evaluating any benchmark, the most important of which is not: “How can I duplicate or surpass that performance?” But: “Does that operation’s benchmark apply to my operation?”

Answering that question first will avoid wasting time chasing after performance benchmarks that are completely irrelevant to your operation and allow for devotion of effort to benchmarks that are bona fide targets for a particular operation and should be pursued to elevate an operation to higher levels of performance.

To be clear, the benchmarks we’re talking about here are distribution center facility operating benchmarks. The most common metrics around productivity are frequently focused on throughput, accuracy, storage density and even shrink percentages.

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