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What is Lead Time? Definition & How to Shorten It

Unleashed

There are many definitions for lead time in supply chain management. Lead time is a vital business metric that directly impacts customer satisfaction, workflow efficiency, and delivery time accuracy. It’s a valuable metric for identifying bottlenecks, improving efficiency, and optimising specific operational steps.

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The Intelligent IBP Manifesto – key principles for a new planning paradigm

Supply Chain Trend

Introducing Intelligent IBP Let’s start with a definition. This definition should become clear once you go through the principles. In February 2022, I wrote the first of a five blog series using the name Intelligent IBP. Decision quality will become a performance metric in IBP.

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“Culture eats strategy for breakfast”: The argument for creating an analytics culture

NC State SCRC

Handfield and Universidade Federal do Espirito Santo’s Dr. Marcos Paulo Valadares de Oliveira showed that an open analytics culture (OAC) strongly correlates with improved supply chain performance metrics. Supply Chain Metrics!?!? – Why should managers who work outside of “Supply Chain” care about this study?