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Lead Time
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Lead Time

Total time from customer order (or material arrival) to delivery, including all waiting.

Examples

  1. 01Lead time is 14 days, of which only 45 minutes are value-adding.
  2. 02A VSM shows that raw material waits 9 days before the first process.
  3. 03A customer service team measures lead time from complaint to answer.

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