{"id":34731,"date":"2009-09-04T12:00:57","date_gmt":"2009-09-04T10:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ak-online.de\/2009\/09\/short-sweet-logistical-decoupling-point-lek\/"},"modified":"2025-02-10T13:55:56","modified_gmt":"2025-02-10T12:55:56","slug":"short-sweet-logistical-decoupling-point-lek","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/short-sweet-logistical-decoupling-point-lek\/","title":{"rendered":"Short &amp; sweet: Logistical decoupling point (LEK)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The logistics decoupling point (LEK) is the point in a value stream at which the customer order reference is decoupled from the value chain. Downstream of the value stream from the LEK, production is based on customer orders; upstream of the LEK, production is based on stock and anonymous customer orders. Stocks must be held at the LEK.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Our tip:<\/strong> Place the LEK as far upstream as possible; ideally at the point from which the remaining lead time corresponds 1:1 to the delivery time accepted by the market. This ensures that production is optimally aligned with demand and reduces inventories with high added value.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The logistics decoupling point (LEK) is the point in a value stream at which the customer order reference is decoupled from the value chain. Downstream of the value stream from the LEK, production is based on customer orders; upstream of the LEK, production is based on stock and anonymous customer orders. Stocks must be held<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":30232,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1723,1758],"tags":[1737,1772,1745,1726],"class_list":["post-34731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-inventory-management","category-scm-glossary","tag-added-value","tag-logistical-decoupling-point","tag-value-chain","tag-warehouse"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ak-online.de\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}