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benefits of knowing throughput timethroughput time refers to the total amount of time that it takes to run a particular process in its entirety from start to finish for example a manufacturer can measure how long it takes to produce a product from initial customer order to sourcing raw materials to manufacturing to sale throughput time can be further broken down into components adding these together gives you the total throughput time if you can identify areas where there are backlogs bottlenecks or slowdowns company managers can address these and improve efficiency quicker throughput times increase return on investment roi and profitability throughput analysis is also a form of capital budgeting analysis aiding companies in choosing which projects to undertake using throughput analysis the entire company may be viewed as a single process 