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Total Failed Fulfillments Metric

Essential knowledge

Intended Audience:

Business User

Author:

Movyn John

Changed on:

20 Oct 2025

Overview

Learn about the Total Failed Fulfillments Metric in Fluent Analytics

Key points

  • Failed fulfillments require manual intervention and delay delivery
  • May indicate inventory accuracy, system, or training issues
  • Different failure types require different corrective actions

What it measures

Number of fulfillments that failed during the fulfillment process.

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When to use this metric

  • Identify systemic operational problems
  • Monitor the impact of process changes on failure rates
  • Assess location-specific quality issues
  • Track progress on operational improvement initiatives

How to interpret

  • Good performance: Failed fulfillments should be a low %
  • Potential issues: Increasing failure rates indicate process or system problems
  • Benchmark guidance: Should trend toward zero; patterns need root cause analysis

Technical details

Formula: 

COUNT(fulfillments) where status = {STATUS_FAILED} within the selected time period

Configuration:

  • STATUS_FAILED: Status definitions for failed fulfillments (default: REJECTED)