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Vol 30 - No 04 June 2004 IKS – Integrated Kanban System Heard it before? A simple and reasonable enough statement from any shop floor supervisor, but one that has on a daily basis, frustrated the hell out of every operations management professional. The answer is similarly simple:   take the demand for a product over a period, lets say a month calculate how many of each component part we need for that product (manufactured and purchased)   take away the quantity of each part we already have in our factory and have already ordered   work out how long it takes us to make or buy a quantity of each part   then work out when we need to start making those additional parts so that demand is always satisfied. ….. which will give a schedule, day-byday, of what we need to make and buy. Page number: 26 Word count: 2000 Related Topics: Kanban
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