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Reducing Your Internal Logistic Cycle Time
Reducing Your Internal Logistic Cycle Time
Using cycle time as a performance metric can reveal insights into efficient and inefficient
supply chain processes. Both internal and external factors contribute to the length of
cycle time. Some of the controllable factors for improving cycle time are capacity
constraints, labor, manufacturing congestion, inventory surplus, quality of the product,
and schedule flexibility and management.
international suppliers operations and logistics cycle time
involves a sequence between five stages, from suppliers to the final customer.
Each of these stages has its own cycle, which is a sequence of operations and
transactions taking place between stages.