High quality of product or process tends to result in high costs and long lead times. There is also a tendency towards repeatable processes, and thus to a low degree of flexibility............
The shorter the delivery lead times, the higher the costs: to achieve short delivery lead times, stock or over-capacity is a must. Short lead times can result in reductions in quality and flexibility (for example, scope of variants)..............
A high degree of flexibility in achieving customer value, through scope of variants for example, leads either to long delivery lead times (as little inventory can be stocked) or, due to unusable inventory of product variants, to high costs............
Low costs, due to high capacity utilization and simultaneous avoidance of stock, result in long delivery lead times and reductions in quality and flexibility in the range of goods..........