A method for translation supply chain analytics includes receiving operational variables of a translation process from a translation supply chain. The method further includes determining a cognitive leverage and a productivity factor for post editing of matches of a plurality of match types generated by the translation supply chain based at least in part on the operational variables from the translation supply chain. The method further includes generating linguistic markers for the matches of the plurality of match types generated by the translation supply chain, based at least in part on the cognitive leverage and the productivity factor for the post editing of the matches of the plurality of match types. The method further includes performing statistical analysis of the linguistic markers for the matches of the plurality of match types. The method further includes generating one or more analytics outputs based on the statistical analysis of the linguistic markers.