Procurement & Supply Chain / Operations
Purchase Order Cycle Time ~ (aliases: PO cycle time, requisition-to-order, req-to-receipt, procure-to-pay P2P cycle)
How long the purchasing process takes, from request to order placed, to goods received, or all the way to supplier paid.
The fork, why two teams get different numbers
Which endpoints.
In the Metric Library
- The full fork, both definitions worked all the way through
- The trap that makes the number lie, on a real export
- Every formula variant, spelled out
- The reconciliation anchor, what to tie it to and when to refuse
Reference: ISM · APICS/SCOR