

Lagging vs Leading Indicators in Logistics (And Why Everyone Tracks the Wrong Ones)
Most logistics teams are driving their supply chain by staring in the rear-view mirror. Everything looks calm back there. The road you already travelled is straight. The bumps feel manageable. You can even point at the skid marks and explain exactly why they happened. Meanwhile, up ahead, traffic is stacking, a storm is rolling in sideways, and someone just slammed the brakes three cars in front of you. That’s what relying on lagging indicators feels like. Your KPIs are techn
Danyul Gleeson
4 days ago8 min read


The KPIs That Predict Failure Before Customers Notice
Most supply chains don’t fail like a Hollywood explosion. There’s no dramatic music. No slow-motion chaos. No one diving over pallets while alarms scream. They fail like a fridge that’s quietly dying in the corner of your kitchen. At first, it’s subtle. The light still comes on. The door still seals. The milk is… mostly cold. You shrug and think, “It’s probably fine.” Maybe the door was open. Maybe it’s just a warm day. You adjust nothing and carry on. A few days later, you’r
Danyul Gleeson
6 days ago8 min read


Your Logistics KPI Dashboard Is Probably Making Things Worse
Let’s start with an uncomfortable truth. If your logistics KPI dashboard hasn’t changed what your team did this week, it’s not helping. It’s narrating the damage after the fact. Most dashboards look impressive. They feel “robust”. They get nodded at in meetings. And yet missed deliveries keep happening. Costs keep creeping. Everyone keeps firefighting. That’s not because KPIs don’t work.It’s because most dashboards were built to report, not to decide. And in 2026 and beyond,
Danyul Gleeson
Jun 179 min read


Why Most Logistics Dashboards Don’t Change Decisions
Most logistics dashboards are like a weather app that proudly tells you it’s raining…while you’re already soaked, standing on the side of the road, wondering whose idea it was to wear white shoes today. They’re not wrong. They’re just spectacularly late. You open the dashboard and it serves up numbers with confidence. Charts with opinions. Trend lines that suggest reflection. It explains what happened, when it happened, and how bad it got. Sometimes it even adds a tasteful sh
Danyul Gleeson
Jun 158 min read








