Cash-to-cash Cycle Time is a value metric used to measure how efficiently a company manages its working capital assets. This metric is a generally accepted Supply Chain metric within many industries and is used to benchmark supply chain asset management performance. The Cash-to-Cash Cycle time is measured by converting into days the supply of inventory in stock and the number of days outstanding for accounts receivable and accounts payable. The inventory days of supply is added to the days outstanding for accounts receivable. The accounts payable days outstanding is subtracted from this total to determine the cash-to-cash cycle time. The longer the cash-to-cash cycle, the more current assets needed (relative to current liabilities) since it takes longer to convert inventories and receivables into cash. In other words, the longer the cash-to-cash cycle, the more net working capital required.