1 INTRODUCTION
Planning is the process of assigning individual tasks to resources at a certain point in time. Originally, planning was a manual task, performed by a human chain planner. Over the last decades information systems have increasingly taken over this role in industries conside such as road-logistics, in practice however the human planner has still a considerable role. In order to make the transition from planning input to planning output, a planning system- manual or computerized must employ the proper objectives to derive to an optimal planning. To gain insight in this area, we consider the Key Performance Indicators(KPI) literature. KPIs are typically used in a post-ante context: to evaluate the past performance of a company. We reason that KPIs could be utilized in the planning phase as well; ex-ante.