# A regional Home Depot office issues approximately 1500 PO's per 40 hour work week to its suppliers. Through data collection, it is determined that the average value add time for a PO is 30 minutes. Assuming a Home Depot has world-class business processess, what is the lead time for any given PO to be issued? How many PO's would we expect to be in process at any given time?

A regional Home Depot office issues approximately 1500 PO's per 40 hour work week to its suppliers. Through data collection, it is determined that the average value add time for a PO is 30 minutes. Assuming a Home Depot has world-class business processess, what is the lead time for any given PO to be issued? How many PO's would we expect to be in process at any given time?
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$\frac{1500P{O}^{\prime }s}{40hours}=37.5\frac{P{O}^{\prime }s}{hour}\approx 38\frac{P{O}^{\prime }s}{hour}$ So you're making approximately 38PO's in a work week.
1PO=30 minutes on average
$\frac{38\frac{P{O}^{\prime }s}{hour}}{30minutes}\approx 1.3$ hours for any given PO to be issued
At any given time you should expect at 1 PO to be inprocess