In 2016, WAN-IFRA did a benchmarking project on assessment of environmental KPI‘s (e-KPI) for newspaper production, where a total of 14 KPI‘s were benchmarked . The project covered KPIs from environmental and production metrices. Altogether a total of 31 printing plants from India had participated in the project. This project was done under strict non- disclosure agreement to ensure the security and privacy of data & reports of the participants.

In continuation of the previous benchmarking project, this financial year WAN-IFRA propose an extension project “Benchmarking Newspaper Production KPI“ and will focus solely on newspaper production KPI‘s . In the extension project of benchmarking we added updated KPI‘s and international metrics for measurement and analysis of KPI‘s.

WAN-IFRA’S Bench marking project will give the following advantages.

• Benchmarking is based on consumption of resources and hence could give a clear picture of over utilisation or waste.
• It measures limited number of KPI‘s only- Easy to measure
• Only most important production KPI‘s are measured to have a clear direction on product cost.
• Easy access to data. SAP system could provide data for most KPI.