Lara GuevaraSupply Chain expert (Product and Service)

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30 Oct 2025 · 1 min

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Lara Guevara breaks down why product launches take so long. In a 60-day lead time, only 15 days are actual factory work. The other 45 days vanish in approvals, packaging delays, and project management gaps. The bottleneck is almost always internal.

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You don't have a production problem, you have an operations problem. Founders tell me all the time our lead time is very long, it's 60 days. But really, when we audit the last launch, 15 days of that is the factory work and then 45 days is internal chaos. Packaging is late, approval is late, no dependencies, PO not sent and vendor is waiting. Delays don't start overseas. Delays start in your ClickUp or any project management tool in the move. Flywheel Operations is flow, it's the engine. If flow is broken, nothing moves. Operations is not admin, it's an acceleration. If you want my 60 day launch playbook, the exact system we use to cut timelines in half Linked in comment section.