Procurement & Supply Chain / Logistics
Freight Cost per Unit ~ (aliases: transportation cost per unit, freight per cwt, freight ratio, cost to serve, freight)
The transportation cost attributed to each unit moved, a logistics-efficiency proxy and a component of landed cost.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
The denominator, and which freight is inside it.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: APICS/SCOR (Logistics cost) · ISM