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Lead Time In supply chain management, the amount of time between a supplier receiving an order and its delivery to the distributor or customer. This is important for both custom-made products and mass production, and suppliers are expected to know the lead times for their different products. It is particularly important for just-in-time supply chains, in which each step in the supply chain is expected to know precise turnaround time. How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Its proprietary "quick tooling" software reportedly converts mold designs rapidly into machining code to shorten lead times. produces fast turnaround prototypes and low production castings, and one of the tools that allows ICT to achieve lower lead times is Delcam's CADCAM software. Venue Demand Outpaces Supply I Increasing Lead Times |
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