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# Sales Order to Invoice Lead Time, Oracle ERP Cloud

> Average days from Sales Order creation to Invoice issued. Reflects fulfilment + billing-cycle health. How to read it, why it matters, and how to act on it.

**Metrics type:** [Supporting Metrics](/nerve-centre/overview#metrics-types-explained)  •  **Category:** [Ecommerce Platform](/nerve-centre/connectors#connectors-by-type)

> 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](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/oracle-erp/revenue-gap-vs-commerce) AutoInvoice Pending bucket.

|                    |                                                                                     |
| ------------------ | ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
| **What it counts** | `AVG(invoice_date minus so_creation_date)` for SOs that AutoInvoiced in the window. |
| **Tax treatment**  | n/a (cycle-time metric).                                                            |
| **Time window**    | `30D vsP`                                                                           |
| **Alert trigger**  | `>7 days OR up >2 vsP`                                                              |
| **Sentiment key**  | `so_to_invoice`                                                                     |
| **Roles**          | owner, 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 period | Prior period |
| ------------------------------- | ----------- | ------------ |
| Average SO-to-Invoice lead time | 5.8 days    | 5.2 days     |
| Median                          | 4 days      | 4 days       |
| 90th percentile                 | 14 days     | 12 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

| Card                                                                                                   | Why pair                              |
| ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ | ------------------------------------- |
| [Open Sales Order Value](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/oracle-erp/oerp-open-so-value)                        | Forward book.                         |
| [Sales Orders Blocked](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/oracle-erp/sales-orders-blocked-on-inventory-or-credit) | Why cycle time is rising.             |
| [Revenue Gap vs Commerce](/nerve-centre/kpi-cards/oracle-erp/revenue-gap-vs-commerce)                  | Lead 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:**

| Reason              | Direction | Why                                |
| ------------------- | --------- | ---------------------------------- |
| **Date convention** | Either    | Booking 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.

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### Tracked live in Vortex IQ Nerve Centre

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