Several management decisions that would benefit from the information in the dashboards include: Plant and equipment reliability: when to perform maintenance on machinery or replace equipment altogether Inventory management: determine optimal stock levels at each plant and move inventory from one plant to another if necessary Safety: is one plant suffering more safety violations than others or does one plant have an exceptional safety track record that others could emulate Energy consumption: What are the peak periods of energy consumption? What is causing the greatest amount of consumption? Would it be better to replace energy-hogging equipment or keep it?