# Design a One-Page Warehouse Inbound Dashboard
An operational vice president needs a one-page dashboard for warehouse inbound operations to decide how to improve supply-chain efficiency. Propose the metrics and charts, explain how they fit on the page, and show how the dashboard would support an operational decision. State any assumptions about the receiving process or available data.
### What a Strong Answer Covers
- A defined inbound process and decisions the operational VP can make.
- Throughput, delay, backlog, capacity, and quality measures with explicit units and denominators.
- A compact visual hierarchy that exposes bottlenecks and avoids misleading averages.
- A link from a dashboard signal to an investigation or action, with data-quality checks.
```hint Follow inbound work
Distinguish time waiting to be processed from the time spent receiving or putting away goods.
```
### Follow-up Questions
- How could units received per hour improve while inbound service becomes worse?
- How would you compare warehouses with different product and shipment mixes?
Overview: Design an executive warehouse inbound dashboard with throughput, dock-to-stock time, aged backlog, capacity, and quality metrics.
An operational vice president needs a one-page dashboard for warehouse inbound operations to decide how to improve supply-chain efficiency. Propose the metrics and charts, explain how they fit on the page, and show how the dashboard would support an operational decision. State any assumptions about the receiving process or available data.
What a Strong Answer Covers Guidance
A defined inbound process and decisions the operational VP can make.
Throughput, delay, backlog, capacity, and quality measures with explicit units and denominators.
A compact visual hierarchy that exposes bottlenecks and avoids misleading averages.
A link from a dashboard signal to an investigation or action, with data-quality checks.
Follow-up Questions Guidance
How could units received per hour improve while inbound service becomes worse?
How would you compare warehouses with different product and shipment mixes?