Configure-to-Order & Product Configuration worked example

Configuration Approval Cycle at 29% queue and revision time allowance: a worked example

Push queue and revision time allowance up to 29% and the picture changes. This example computes every intermediate figure at that operating point. planning approval capacity and quote release timing

The inputs for this scenario

  • Configuration approvals required to release: 44 approvals (unchanged)
  • Approval throughput rate: 5.2 approvals / hr (unchanged)
  • Queue and revision time allowance: 29 % (raised for this scenario; the documented default is 25)

Working through the calculation

  • Applying the documented formula (Base configuration approval cycle = configuration approvals required รท approval completion pace) to the inputs above produces each figure below.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 10.92 hr for estimated configuration approval cycle, the number this scenario is built around.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 8.46 hr for base configuration approval cycle.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 29 % for approval queue and revision allowance.
  • At this operating point the engine returns 5.2 approvals / hr for approval completion pace.

How this compares with the baseline

  • Against the tool's baseline example, where queue and revision time allowance sits at 25% and the headline result is 10.58 hr, this scenario comes in 3.2% above the baseline at 10.92 hr.
  • It divides the number of required approvals by the approval throughput rate to get base time, then inflates it by a queue and revision allowance to estimate the realistic cycle in hours. The value of this scenario is the size of the gap it exposes: that gap, priced out over a year, is the budget you can justify spending to close it.

Results at a glance

  • estimated configuration approval cycle: 10.92 hr (headline result)
  • base configuration approval cycle: 8.46 hr
  • approval queue and revision allowance: 29 %
  • approval completion pace: 5.2 approvals / hr

Run it with your numbers

  • Every input above is editable in the live Configuration Approval Cycle calculator, which recalculates instantly and can be shared with the inputs intact.

Last reviewed 2026-05-12.