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Chapter 4 Strategic lead-time management This chapter： Explores the ‘cost of time ’ and the drivers of time-based competition; shortening product life cycles, customers’ desire for reduced inventories and the dangers of being forecast dependent in an increasingly volatile marketplace. 探讨时间成本和时间竞争的驱动力；正在不断缩短的产品生命周期，客户减少库存的要求，在动荡的市场环境下过分依赖预测的种种风险。 Examines the concept of lead time, the order-to-delivery cycle, its components and the need to consider the wider context of the order –to-cash cycle. 分析前置时间、订单周期的概念及其构成要素，从更大范围来考察订货变现周期。 Looks at how the reduction of lead times can impact on the goals of logistics pipeline management. 研究缩短前置时间是如何影响物流渠道管理目标的。 Outlines some of the ways in which inadequate systems design can lengthen lead times and engineer cost rather than value into the logistics process. 概括了一些不恰当的系统设计方法，它们延长了前置时间，并增加了设计成本，却对物流过程的增值贡献不大。 introduces the concept of the lead-time gap, offering a number of suggestions for lead time. 介绍前置时间差的概念，提出一些缩短前置时间的建议。 Compendium 1.Time-based competition 2.The concept of lead time 3.Logistics pipeline management 4.Logistics value engineering 5.The lead-time gap 6.Summary 1.Time-based competition Time is money. Customers in all markets, industrial or consumer, are increasingly time-sensitive. Question 1 What are the pressures leading to the growth of time-sensitive markets? (1) Shortening life cycles The concept of the product life cycle: For many products, there is a recognizable pattern of sales from launch through to final decline. The product life cycle 2.Customers’ drive for reduced inventory one of the most pronounced phenomena of recent years has been the almost universal move by companies to reduce their inventories. Question 1 What is the difference between traditional and modern ways to service customers who require just-in-time deliveries? Many companies still think that the only way to service customers who require just-in-time deliveries is for them, the supplier, to carry the