Throughput (business)

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Throughput in business is the rate at which a product is moved through a production process and onward to being consumed by an end-user, usually measured in the form of sales or usage statistics. The goal of most organizations is to minimize the investment in inputs as well as operating expenses while increasing throughput of its production systems. Successful organizations which seek to gain market share strive to match throughput to the rate of market demand of its products.^[1] The measurement of throughput is central to the concept of throughput accounting.^[2]