where it was developed to improve manufacturing efficiency by creating a “just-in-time” inventory system. Since then, kanban has evolved beyond manufacturing into various industries ...

Entire books have been written on inventory management, Just in Time, and the considerable economic, productivity, and quality improvement benefits of reducing inventories. In light of lean, ...

Two-bin kanban systems are a good tool to simplify ... and which are candidates for a two-bin system. In our example, the top fourteen items represent over 94 percent of the entire inventory cost. Our ...