The assembly time for a car was very short compared to the total order-to-delivery time. Only about 26 h of the average 18 weeks are actually spent in the physical assembly process. The average waiting times of customer orders are: seven days for the order entry process, 10 days at the order bank to manage allocation issues between retailers, 10 days at master production planning for the next month, 14 days at car sequencing, and the remaining time for vehicle distribution to dealers in Germany. However, the distribution channel and the dealer network is not used for late-configuration activi