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看板 – Kanban
• 看板 – Kanban literally
means “visual card,”
“signboard,” or “billboard.”
• Toyota originally used
Kanban cards to limit the
amount of inventory tied up
in “work in progress” on a
manufacturing floor
• Not only is excess inventory
waste, time spent producing
it is time that could be
expended elsewhere
• Kanban cards act as a form
of “currency” representing
how WIP is allowed in a
system.
What is Kanban
• Kanban means many things.
• Literally, Kanban is a Japanese word that means
"visual card".
• At Toyota, Kanban is the term used for the visual
& physical signaling system that ties together the
whole Lean Production system.
• Kanban as used in Lean Production is over a half
century old.
• It is being adopted newly to some disciplines as
software.
Categories of Kanban
Instruction
Withdrawal
Kanban
Production Kanban
(non lot production)
Triangle Kanban (for
lot production)
Interprocess Kanban
Supplier Kanban
• Never Pass on A Bad Part
• The Parts Are Always Withdrawn From The Prior Process
• Produce Only What Is Necessary To Replenish The Quantity
Withdrawn
• Level Load Production, Rapid Changeover, Small Lot
Production, Zero Defects
• Kanban Is Used To Fine Tune (Not Provide For Major Changes)
• The Process Must Be Capable Of Producing Good Parts
(Rational And Stable)
• Need Efficient Methods Of Transportation, Shortest Routes
Possible
• Disciplined Organization
• Nothing Is Made or Transported Without A Kanban.
• Kanban Cards Always Accompany the Parts Themselves.
• The Number of Kanbans Should Decrease over time.
Rules of the Kanban
• No Cards
– Visual (Tape On Floor)
– Two-Bin or Bin Systems
– Supplier Containers
– Painted floors, i.e. squares, circles
• Card Systems
– Electronic Kanbans - Fax or Emails
– Warehouse Or Parts Racks
– Kanban Boards – Magnetic or Cards
– Containers
– Flow Thru Racks
– Supplier Boxes
Kanban Options
How does Kanban work?
There are many flavors, but the core of Kanban means:
• Visualize the workflow
– Split the work into pieces, write each item on a card and put on the wall.
– Use named columns to illustrate where each item is in the workflow.
• Limit WIP (work in progress) – assign explicit limits to how many
items may be in progress at each workflow state.
• Measure the lead time (average time to complete one item,
sometimes called “cycle time”), optimize the process to make lead
time as small and predictable as possible.
This is a direct implementation of a lean pull scheduling system.
Example Kanban
Kanban
• The implementation of a kanban system, as well
as other lean manufacturing methods, like 5s,
and kaizen, can have significant benefits for
almost any type of work.
• Kanban is faster, more efficient, and saves
significant money over most other production
models.
• A kanban system is also far more directly
responsive to customer demand.
• Kanban is a system that visually indicates when
production should start and stop.
Kanban Examples
Double sided racks.
Stacking bins, when top is empty, remove
and start using the bottom bin.
Variable size stackable
bins
Double sided racks
Special twinbins, top holds second
inventory, when bottom is empty, pull
middle lever that allows top inventory
to drop into lower bin, flag pops up
identifying upper bin needs to be
refilled.
Stacked supplyReserve supply behind
INVENTORY MIN-MAX
What are Inventories?
• Finished product held for sale
• Goods in warehouses
• Work in process
• Goods in transit
• Staff hired to meet service needs
• Any owned or financially controlled raw
material, work in process, and/or finished
good or service held in anticipation of a sale
but not yet sold
What are Inventories?
Material
sources
Inbound
transportation
Production Outbound
transportation
Finished goods
warehousing
Customers
Inventory
locations
Finished goods
Shipping
Inventories
in-processReceiving
Production
materials
Reasons for Inventories
• Improve customer service
– Provides immediacy in product availability
• Encourage production, purchase, and transportation economies
– Allows for long production runs
– Takes advantage of price-quantity discounts
– Allows for transport economies from larger shipment sizes
• Act as a hedge against price changes
– Allows purchasing to take place under most favorable price terms
• Protect against uncertainties in demand and lead times
– Provides a measure of safety to keep operations
running when demand levels and lead times cannot be known
for sure
• Act as a hedge against contingencies
– Buffers against such events as strikes, fires, and disruptions in supply
Reasons Against Inventories
• They consume capital resources that might be put to
better use elsewhere in the firm
• They too often mask quality problems that would more
immediately be solved without their presence
• They divert management’s attention away from careful
planning and control of the supply and distribution
channels by promoting an insular attitude about channel
management
Types of Inventories
• Pipeline
– Inventories in transit
• Speculative
– Goods purchased in anticipation of price increases
• Regular/Cyclical/Seasonal
– Inventories held to meet normal operating needs
• Safety
– Extra stocks held in anticipation of demand and lead time
uncertainties
• Obsolete/Dead Stock
– Inventories that are of little or no value due to being out of date,
spoiled, damaged, etc.
Nature of Demand
• Perpetual demand
– Continues well into the foreseeable future
• Seasonal demand
– Varies with regular peaks and valleys throughout the year
• Lumpy demand
– Highly variable (3  Mean)
• Regular demand
– Not highly variable (3 < Mean)
• Terminating demand
– Demand goes to 0 in foreseeable future
• Derived demand
– Demand is determined from the demand of another item of which it is
a part
Accurately forecasting
demand is singly the
most important factor
in good inventory
management
Pull vs. Push Inventory Philosophies
Plant
Warehouse #1
Warehouse #2
Warehouse #3
A1
A2
A3
A = Allocation quantity to each warehouse
Q = Requested replenishment quantity
by each warehouse
Q1
Q2
Q3
Demand
forecast
Demand
forecast
Demand
forecast
PULL - Replenish inventory with
order sizes based on specific needs
of each warehouse
PUSH - Allocate supply to each
warehouse based on the forecast
for each warehouse
Costs Relevant to Inventory Management
• Carrying costs
• Procurement costs
• Out-of-stock costs
Procurement costs
• Price of the goods
• Cost of preparing the order
• Cost of order transmission
• Cost of production setup if appropriate
• Cost of materials handling or processing at the
receiving dock
Carrying Costs
• Cost for holding the inventory over time
• The primary cost is the cost of money tied up
in inventory, but also includes obsolescence,
insurance, personal property taxes, and
storage costs
• Typically, costs range from the cost of short
term capital to about 40%/year. The average is
about 25%/year of the item value in inventory.
Out-of-stock costs
• Lost sales cost
– Profit immediately foregone
– Future profits foregone through loss of goodwill
• Backorder cost
– Costs of extra order handling
– Additional transportation and handling costs
– Possibly additional setup costs
Inventory Management Objectives
• Good inventory management is a careful balancing act
between stock availability and the cost of holding
inventory.
• Service objectives
– Setting stocking levels so that there is only a specified probability
of running out of stock
• Cost objectives
– Balancing conflicting costs to find the most economical
replenishment quantities and timing
Customer Service,
i.e., Stock Availability
Inventory Holding costs
Typical Inventory Conflicting Cost PatternsCost
Replenishment quantity
Stockout cost
Procurement cost
Total cost Minimum cost
reorder quantity
Reorder Point Control for a Single Item
ROP
Quantityonhand
0
Q
Q
Receive
order
Place
order
Stockout
LT
Time
LT
Demand
During
LT
P
Reorder Point Control
ROP
Q
0
Inventorylevel
LT LTTime
Safety stock
Actual
on hand
Quantity on hand
+on order
backorders
Quantity for
control
Periodic review control with demand
uncertainty
Q1
Stock
level
reviewed
T T
LT LT
Order
received
Q2
M
q
0
Quantityonhand
TimeM = maximum level
M - q = replenishment quantity
LT = lead time
T = review interval
q = quantity on hand
Qi = order quantity
~
Performance Metrics - Turnover Ratio
inventoryAverage
salesAnnual
ratioTurnover 
What are the benefits of Kanban?
Some commonly observed benefits are:
• Bottlenecks become clearly visible in real-time. This
leads people to collaborate to optimize the whole
value chain rather than just their part.
• Useful for situations where operations and support
teams have a high rate of uncertainty and variability.
• Tends to naturally spread throughout the organization
to other departments such as HR and sales, thereby
increasing visibility of everything that is going on at the
company.
Benefits of Kanban
Reduce Inventory
• Kanban will reduce inventory, on average, by
25 to 75%. This saves any company
significantly in terms of rent, electricity, and
storage space.
• In addition, all of the space freed by the
implementation of a kanban system can be
used for future expansions or new
opportunities
Benefits of Kanban
Improve work flow
• The visually organized environment ensures all
parts are easily found and continually stocked.
• The speed of moving from one task to another
is significantly reduced by the creation of
clearly marked flow lanes, kanban cards, and
clearly marked labels.
Benefits of Kanban
Prevent Overproduction
• Because parts are only created at the visual
signal by the kanban label (link), inventory is
much less likely to be overproduced. Resulting
in significant savings in the holding of stock.
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How does Kanban work? - ADDVALUE - Nilesh Arora

  • 1. Best Performing Consulting Organization by “Kanban” Adding Value In Totality !!
  • 2. 看板 – Kanban • 看板 – Kanban literally means “visual card,” “signboard,” or “billboard.” • Toyota originally used Kanban cards to limit the amount of inventory tied up in “work in progress” on a manufacturing floor • Not only is excess inventory waste, time spent producing it is time that could be expended elsewhere • Kanban cards act as a form of “currency” representing how WIP is allowed in a system.
  • 3. What is Kanban • Kanban means many things. • Literally, Kanban is a Japanese word that means "visual card". • At Toyota, Kanban is the term used for the visual & physical signaling system that ties together the whole Lean Production system. • Kanban as used in Lean Production is over a half century old. • It is being adopted newly to some disciplines as software.
  • 4. Categories of Kanban Instruction Withdrawal Kanban Production Kanban (non lot production) Triangle Kanban (for lot production) Interprocess Kanban Supplier Kanban
  • 5. • Never Pass on A Bad Part • The Parts Are Always Withdrawn From The Prior Process • Produce Only What Is Necessary To Replenish The Quantity Withdrawn • Level Load Production, Rapid Changeover, Small Lot Production, Zero Defects • Kanban Is Used To Fine Tune (Not Provide For Major Changes) • The Process Must Be Capable Of Producing Good Parts (Rational And Stable) • Need Efficient Methods Of Transportation, Shortest Routes Possible • Disciplined Organization • Nothing Is Made or Transported Without A Kanban. • Kanban Cards Always Accompany the Parts Themselves. • The Number of Kanbans Should Decrease over time. Rules of the Kanban
  • 6. • No Cards – Visual (Tape On Floor) – Two-Bin or Bin Systems – Supplier Containers – Painted floors, i.e. squares, circles • Card Systems – Electronic Kanbans - Fax or Emails – Warehouse Or Parts Racks – Kanban Boards – Magnetic or Cards – Containers – Flow Thru Racks – Supplier Boxes Kanban Options
  • 7. How does Kanban work? There are many flavors, but the core of Kanban means: • Visualize the workflow – Split the work into pieces, write each item on a card and put on the wall. – Use named columns to illustrate where each item is in the workflow. • Limit WIP (work in progress) – assign explicit limits to how many items may be in progress at each workflow state. • Measure the lead time (average time to complete one item, sometimes called “cycle time”), optimize the process to make lead time as small and predictable as possible. This is a direct implementation of a lean pull scheduling system.
  • 9. Kanban • The implementation of a kanban system, as well as other lean manufacturing methods, like 5s, and kaizen, can have significant benefits for almost any type of work. • Kanban is faster, more efficient, and saves significant money over most other production models. • A kanban system is also far more directly responsive to customer demand. • Kanban is a system that visually indicates when production should start and stop.
  • 11. Double sided racks. Stacking bins, when top is empty, remove and start using the bottom bin. Variable size stackable bins
  • 13. Special twinbins, top holds second inventory, when bottom is empty, pull middle lever that allows top inventory to drop into lower bin, flag pops up identifying upper bin needs to be refilled.
  • 16. What are Inventories? • Finished product held for sale • Goods in warehouses • Work in process • Goods in transit • Staff hired to meet service needs • Any owned or financially controlled raw material, work in process, and/or finished good or service held in anticipation of a sale but not yet sold
  • 17. What are Inventories? Material sources Inbound transportation Production Outbound transportation Finished goods warehousing Customers Inventory locations Finished goods Shipping Inventories in-processReceiving Production materials
  • 18. Reasons for Inventories • Improve customer service – Provides immediacy in product availability • Encourage production, purchase, and transportation economies – Allows for long production runs – Takes advantage of price-quantity discounts – Allows for transport economies from larger shipment sizes • Act as a hedge against price changes – Allows purchasing to take place under most favorable price terms • Protect against uncertainties in demand and lead times – Provides a measure of safety to keep operations running when demand levels and lead times cannot be known for sure • Act as a hedge against contingencies – Buffers against such events as strikes, fires, and disruptions in supply
  • 19. Reasons Against Inventories • They consume capital resources that might be put to better use elsewhere in the firm • They too often mask quality problems that would more immediately be solved without their presence • They divert management’s attention away from careful planning and control of the supply and distribution channels by promoting an insular attitude about channel management
  • 20. Types of Inventories • Pipeline – Inventories in transit • Speculative – Goods purchased in anticipation of price increases • Regular/Cyclical/Seasonal – Inventories held to meet normal operating needs • Safety – Extra stocks held in anticipation of demand and lead time uncertainties • Obsolete/Dead Stock – Inventories that are of little or no value due to being out of date, spoiled, damaged, etc.
  • 21. Nature of Demand • Perpetual demand – Continues well into the foreseeable future • Seasonal demand – Varies with regular peaks and valleys throughout the year • Lumpy demand – Highly variable (3  Mean) • Regular demand – Not highly variable (3 < Mean) • Terminating demand – Demand goes to 0 in foreseeable future • Derived demand – Demand is determined from the demand of another item of which it is a part Accurately forecasting demand is singly the most important factor in good inventory management
  • 22. Pull vs. Push Inventory Philosophies Plant Warehouse #1 Warehouse #2 Warehouse #3 A1 A2 A3 A = Allocation quantity to each warehouse Q = Requested replenishment quantity by each warehouse Q1 Q2 Q3 Demand forecast Demand forecast Demand forecast PULL - Replenish inventory with order sizes based on specific needs of each warehouse PUSH - Allocate supply to each warehouse based on the forecast for each warehouse
  • 23. Costs Relevant to Inventory Management • Carrying costs • Procurement costs • Out-of-stock costs
  • 24. Procurement costs • Price of the goods • Cost of preparing the order • Cost of order transmission • Cost of production setup if appropriate • Cost of materials handling or processing at the receiving dock
  • 25. Carrying Costs • Cost for holding the inventory over time • The primary cost is the cost of money tied up in inventory, but also includes obsolescence, insurance, personal property taxes, and storage costs • Typically, costs range from the cost of short term capital to about 40%/year. The average is about 25%/year of the item value in inventory.
  • 26. Out-of-stock costs • Lost sales cost – Profit immediately foregone – Future profits foregone through loss of goodwill • Backorder cost – Costs of extra order handling – Additional transportation and handling costs – Possibly additional setup costs
  • 27. Inventory Management Objectives • Good inventory management is a careful balancing act between stock availability and the cost of holding inventory. • Service objectives – Setting stocking levels so that there is only a specified probability of running out of stock • Cost objectives – Balancing conflicting costs to find the most economical replenishment quantities and timing Customer Service, i.e., Stock Availability Inventory Holding costs
  • 28. Typical Inventory Conflicting Cost PatternsCost Replenishment quantity Stockout cost Procurement cost Total cost Minimum cost reorder quantity
  • 29. Reorder Point Control for a Single Item ROP Quantityonhand 0 Q Q Receive order Place order Stockout LT Time LT Demand During LT P
  • 30. Reorder Point Control ROP Q 0 Inventorylevel LT LTTime Safety stock Actual on hand Quantity on hand +on order backorders Quantity for control
  • 31. Periodic review control with demand uncertainty Q1 Stock level reviewed T T LT LT Order received Q2 M q 0 Quantityonhand TimeM = maximum level M - q = replenishment quantity LT = lead time T = review interval q = quantity on hand Qi = order quantity ~
  • 32. Performance Metrics - Turnover Ratio inventoryAverage salesAnnual ratioTurnover 
  • 33. What are the benefits of Kanban? Some commonly observed benefits are: • Bottlenecks become clearly visible in real-time. This leads people to collaborate to optimize the whole value chain rather than just their part. • Useful for situations where operations and support teams have a high rate of uncertainty and variability. • Tends to naturally spread throughout the organization to other departments such as HR and sales, thereby increasing visibility of everything that is going on at the company.
  • 34. Benefits of Kanban Reduce Inventory • Kanban will reduce inventory, on average, by 25 to 75%. This saves any company significantly in terms of rent, electricity, and storage space. • In addition, all of the space freed by the implementation of a kanban system can be used for future expansions or new opportunities
  • 35. Benefits of Kanban Improve work flow • The visually organized environment ensures all parts are easily found and continually stocked. • The speed of moving from one task to another is significantly reduced by the creation of clearly marked flow lanes, kanban cards, and clearly marked labels.
  • 36. Benefits of Kanban Prevent Overproduction • Because parts are only created at the visual signal by the kanban label (link), inventory is much less likely to be overproduced. Resulting in significant savings in the holding of stock.
  • 37. ADDVALUE Services VALUE ADDED COACHING-VAC® BUSINESS COACHING LIFE COACHING Operation Excellence Team Excellence Business Excellence Counselling Therapy Astrology Adding Value In Totality !!
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