| key performance indicator |
A measurement, or metric, used by ValueSAP for evaluating a company's business strategy, performance, or technology.
KPIs express abstract company objectives in financial or physical units for comparative purposes.
For example, in the area of the SAP Advanced Planner and Optimizer (APO), data pertaining to the various planning processes such as demand planning or production planning is collected, measured and transformed into physical or financial information that can be used to compare results and measure the company's performance according to known benchmarking criteria.