Overplanning Factor in Toyota's Formula for Computing the Number of Kanban

• المؤلفون الرئيسيون: CO, Henry C., MOOSA, Sharafali
• التنسيق: text
• اللغة: English
• منشور في: Institutional Knowledge at Singapore Management University 1997
• الموضوعات: Operations and Supply Chain Management; Operations Research, Systems Engineering and Industrial Engineering
• الوصول للمادة أونلاين: https://ink.library.smu.edu.sg/lkcsb_research/892; https://doi.org/10.1080/07408179708966346
• المؤسسة: Singapore Management University

To determine the number of required kanban, Toyota uses a formula based on the average demand during an order picking cycle, inflated by a constant overplanning factor β. This technical note attempts to characterize the situations where the simplicity of Toyota's formula reconciles with the est...