Lead time and response time in a pull pr
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Ilhyung Kim; Christopher S. Tang
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Article
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1997
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Elsevier Science
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English
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In the late 80s, most manufacturers have shifted their manufacturing strategies from cost and quality to speed. This paper focuses on two performance measures of speed: manufacturing lead time and response time. Manufacturing lead time is the sum of the processing time to convert raw material to fin