Performance evaluation on logistics performance

From time to time, some students would adopt dissertation  topics that are related to evaluation of corporate logistics performance. Based on NEVEM-workgroup (1989), I provide some discussion items on this topic:

1. Definitions in logistics management
• What is logistics
• The control cycle
• Basic ideas on performance indicators
2. Structuring of logistics
• Hierarchy of objectives
• A classification of structuring
• Horizontal structuring
• Vertical structuring
• Organisational structuring
• Situational dependency
• Steering instrument
3. Norms setting and objectives quantification
4. Performance indicators determination
• Concern for coherence
• Responsibility area and functions considerations
• Organization structure considerations
• Objectives determination
• Fundamental measurements per objective considerations
• Situational dependency considerations
5. Measurement tools
6. How to work with performance indicators
7. Performance indicators for production organisations
8. On logistic input-output model

Reference
NEVEM-workgroup (1989) Performance indicators in logistics, IFS Publications/ Springer-Verlag