01
Order intake and procurement
Orders, RFQs, and supplier paperwork captured from email and portals, checked against your records, and held for review when something doesn’t match.
01Done
RFQ in
Drawings and specs pulled from the inbox
Back-office systems · Phoenix, Arizona
The bottleneck isn’t on the floor.
Lead Time Labs builds back-office systems for small and mid-sized industrial companies that check their own work: mismatches, missing data, and exceptions are flagged for a person before anything moves forward.
Line viewJob 1042 · Office → Floor → Office
Step 03 / 06Review
Office
Floor
02Done
Quote
Priced and routed for review
03Review
Order entry
Price differs from quote. Held for a person to review.
04Queued
Production
Job released with the right paperwork
05Queued
Ship
Packing list and tracking sent
06Queued
Invoice
Matched to PO and receipt
Illustrative workflow · one job, inquiry to invoice, with a person reviewing the exception
RFQ in
DoneQuote
DoneOrder entry
ReviewProduction
QueuedShip
QueuedInvoice
QueuedIllustrative workflow · one job, with a review step
ActivityChecks · Review
03PO held: price mismatchReview
02Quote drafted for reviewDone
01RFQ parsed from inboxDone
01 / About
Quotes, orders, and invoices are part of the lead time too.
Lead Time Labs builds systems for the necessary white-collar back-office work inside small and mid-sized industrial companies: the intake, procurement, and invoice work every job passes through before and after it reaches the floor, with a person reviewing anything that doesn’t check out.
The firm is founded and led by Jordan King and based in Phoenix, Arizona.
FounderLead Time Labs
Jordan King
- Role
- Founder and lead
- Base
- Phoenix, Arizona
- Background
- Procurement data analytics, SAP
- Education
- B.S. Business Data Analytics, W. P. Carey School of Business, ASU
Who it serves
- 01Specialty construction
- 02Wholesale and food distribution
- 03Small to mid-sized manufacturing, including metal fab and CNC shops
- 04Freight and logistics
- 05Other procurement-driven businesses
02 / Services
Systems for the work between the order and the invoice.
Built on proven workflows that stand up quickly, with validation checks and a manual review step wherever a mistake would cost you.
02
AP and invoice matching
Supplier invoices matched against purchase orders and receipts. Price, quantity, and missing-receipt exceptions are held for a person to approve.
03
Field and production operations
Job status, time, and material updates from the field and the floor, validated and moved into the systems the office works from. Gaps are flagged for review, not guessed.
Featured project · CNC and precision shops
Quote-to-Cash Systemization Project
A fixed-price, 90-day implementation of the RFQ-to-ERP quoting workflow for CNC and precision shops.
- Quoting playbook
- Paperless Parts training
- Quoting dashboards
- Follow-up templates
GuaranteeFixed price
15hrs
At least 15 hours of manual work removed per week, with the entire system documented and your team trained, within 90 days.
Day 0306090
90-day implementation
Featured service · Available on its own
SOPs and knowledge capture
If the only copy of a process lives in one person’s head, it stops when they’re out and leaves when they do. Knowledge capture puts it in writing, so the work keeps moving without them.
- 01Interviews with the people who hold the knowledge
- 02Current processes documented as they run today
- 03Written step-by-step procedures
- 04Checklists for the floor and the office
- 05SOPs for the exception and review steps
- 06Updates when workflows change
Book a free Shop Systems AuditOn its own or alongside any project.
Every project starts with a free Shop Systems Audit of where your team’s hours are going.
Book a free Shop Systems Audit03 / Results and experience
Procurement analytics experience, applied to the industrial back office.
Jordan King’s background is procurement data analytics and SAP inside large organizations.
Procurement process redesign
40%
less manual work
Streamlined 5 internal procurement processes for contract operationalization and reporting, for thousands of users.
GuaranteeQuote-to-Cash project
15hrs
of manual work removed per week, minimum
With the entire system documented and your team trained, within 90 days. Guaranteed on the Quote-to-Cash Systemization Project. See the project
Experience
- Honeywell AerospaceProcurement data analytics, via Experis
- GenpactProcurement data analytics
- SAPDeep expertise
- LLM evaluationEvaluation work on large language models
Education
- B.S. Business Data AnalyticsW. P. Carey School of Business, Arizona State University
- Machine Learning certificateUplevel
Stack
- Python
- pandas
- SAP
- Power BI
- Power Automate
- n8n
04 / How it works
Start with a free audit. Stand up quickly.
- 01
Free audit
A free Shop Systems Audit looks at where your team’s hours are actually going and where work stalls.
- 02
Fit
Workflows are configured to your systems, with clear rules for what runs automatically and what waits for review.
- 03
Stand up
Workflows stand up quickly. Exceptions are flagged and held for review, so nothing reaches a customer or supplier unchecked.
05 / Questions
Questions and answers.
What we fix, how an engagement runs, and what stays in your hands.
Book a free Shop Systems AuditA 90-day engagement that moves your shop off manual, person-dependent work. It covers automated workflows for RFQ intake and quoting, purchasing and material ordering, and scheduling, plus a documented Shop Playbook, a hiring pipeline for machinists and programmers, team training, and dashboards that track results.
Small and mid-sized industrial companies that depend on a few experienced people to quote, order, purchase, and schedule: specialty construction, wholesale and food distribution, manufacturing (including metal fab and CNC shops), freight and logistics, and other procurement-driven businesses.
We look at where your team’s hours are actually going and estimate how many of them a system can take back. No obligation.
Four steps.
- ExtractMap how your key people quote, buy material, and schedule, and capture the judgment behind it.
- AutomateTurn it into playbooks and workflows that handle the repetitive steps.
- RecruitBuild a repeatable hiring pipeline with onboarding that runs on the new playbooks.
- TransferHands-on training and live dashboards so the system runs without me.
No. Your team sets approval rules, tolerances, and who resolves exceptions. Workflows do not release payments or send replies without your review. Pricing and technical review stay with your people.
Usually not. We build around the tools and records you already use and start with one process so its value is established before expanding scope.
06 / Book
Book a free Shop Systems Audit.
We look at where your team’s hours are actually going and estimate how many of them a system can take back. No obligation.
Or tell me about the process.
Describe the inbox, spreadsheet, or RFQ step costing your team the most time. I read every message and reply within one business day.
Message sent.
Thanks. I’ll reply within one business day.