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Average days from Sales Order creation to Invoice issued. Reflects fulfilment + billing-cycle health.

At a glance

Average days from Sales Order creation to AutoInvoice posting. Captures the fulfilment plus billing-cycle health. The cycle time that drives Revenue Gap vs Commerce AutoInvoice Pending bucket.
What it countsAVG(invoice_date minus so_creation_date) for SOs that AutoInvoiced in the window.
Tax treatmentn/a (cycle-time metric).
Time window30D vsP
Alert trigger>7 days OR up >2 vsP
Sentiment keyso_to_invoice
Rolesowner, finance, operations

Calculation

Calculated automatically from your Oracle ERP Cloud data. See the At a glance summary above for what the metric tracks and the worked example below for a typical reading.

Worked example

A US Fortune 500 distributor on Oracle ERP Cloud. 30D window 14 Mar 26 to 12 Apr 26.
This periodPrior period
Average SO-to-Invoice lead time5.8 days5.2 days
Median4 days4 days
90th percentile14 days12 days
Five things to notice:
  1. 5.8 days average vs 7-day alert threshold. Healthy.
  2. vsP up 0.6 days, below the 2-day jump. Watching but not alarming.
  3. Median 4 days = half the orders flow through in 4 days.
  4. 90th percentile 14 days = the long tail of complex orders / B2B holds.
  5. Drill into long-tail for the orders dragging the average up.

Sibling cards merchants should reference together

CardWhy pair
Open Sales Order ValueForward book.
Sales Orders BlockedWhy cycle time is rising.
Revenue Gap vs CommerceLead time drives AutoInvoice Pending.

Reconciling against the vendor’s own dashboard

Where to look in Oracle ERP Cloud:
OTBI → Order Management + Receivables custom analysis joining SO and Invoice dates
Why our number may legitimately differ:
ReasonDirectionWhy
Date conventionEitherBooking vs creation vs scheduling.
Cross-connector reconciliation: Internal Oracle metric.

Known limitations / merchant FAQs

Net-30 customers, why are they here? Net-30 is the customer payment terms; SO-to-Invoice is the operational cycle. Net-30 starts when invoice issues. B2B vs DTC? DTC: 1-3 days typical. B2B: 5-15 days typical. Multi-BU? Yes via filter.

Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

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