  After eight observing Cycles, the Atacama Large Millimeter-submillimeter
Array (ALMA) is capable of observing in eight different bands (covering a
frequency range from 84 to 950 GHz), with 66 antennas and two correlators. For
the current Cycle (7), ALMA offers up to 4300 hours for the 12-m array, and
3000 hours on both the 7-m of the Atacama Compact Array (ACA) and TP Array plus
750 hours in a supplemental call. From the customer perspective (i.e., the
astronomical community), ALMA is an integrated product service provider, i.e.
it observes in service mode, processes and delivers the data obtained. The Data
Management Group (DMG) is in charge of the processing, reviewing, and delivery
of the ALMA data and consists of approximately 60 experts in data reduction,
from the ALMA Regional Centers (ARCs) and the Joint ALMA Observatory (JAO),
distributed in fourteen countries. Prior to their delivery, the ALMA data
products go through a thorough quality assurance (QA) process, so that the
astronomers can work on their science without the need of significant
additional calibration re-processing. Currently, around 90% of the acquired
data is processed with the ALMA pipeline (the so called pipeline-able data),
while the remaining 10% is processed completely manually. The Level-1 Key
Performance Indicator set by the Observatory to DMG is that 90% of the
pipeline-able data sets (i.e. some 80% of the data sets observed during an
observing cycle) must be processed, reviewed and delivered within 30 days of
data acquisition. This paper describes the methodology followed by the JAO in
order to process near 80% of the total data observed during Cycle 7, a giant
leap with respect to approximately 30% in Cycle 4 (October 2016 - September
2017).
