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What does TAT (turnaround time) mean in logistics?
Short answer
The elapsed time to complete a defined cycle, such as a truck’s round trip from loading back to loading, or a vehicle’s time from gate-in to gate-out at a plant.
Indian logistics teams track plant TAT and trip TAT to find where time is lost: queuing, loading, documentation, transit or unloading. Always state which start and end events a TAT uses. Ask our desk how this applies to your consignment.
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The numbers behind this answer
- Also called
- TAT, turnaround
- Category
- Operations & tech
- Related terms
- Dwell time, Detention, ETA (estimated time of arrival), OTIF (on time in full)
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