Flows
The routes money takes through the business, and where each one is slow.
Order to cash, procure to pay, hire to pay. Each is a route with stages, and each stage has a duration.
Where a route is slow is where cash is trapped. A quote taking six days to become an invoice is six days of delay before the clock even starts.
Where everything sits
How to work this page
The total tells you there is a problem. The stages tell you where.
Almost every slow route has one stage where things wait for a person. That stage is the whole problem.
The fastest quartile of your own transactions shows what is achievable in your business, which beats any benchmark.
Improvement shows in the same view, which is what makes it worth doing.
On a phone
Every figure from the desktop appears here, stacked rather than reduced. Tables scroll inside themselves so the page never moves sideways, and figures keep their separators and their alignment at every width.
Questions people actually ask
It varies enormously. Your own trailing distribution is the honest comparison and it is what is shown.
Yes, separately. Time you control and time they control are different problems and blending them hides which is which.