Exam 14: Lean Supply Chains

Imagine comparing a manufacturing operation using regular lot-sizing and the same operation with a kanban/lean production approach.What would be your expectations of the difference between the total cost (i.e., inventory holding costs + setup/ordering costs) of each?

In the textbook, Toyota's Fujio Cho identified which of the following types of waste to be eliminated?

One of the aims of value stream mapping to eliminate waste in a process.

As lean production methods reduce changeover and setup times and thus enable smaller economic lot sizes and less work-in-process inventory, is the importance of quality increased or decreased? Why?

Name Fujio Cho's seven prominent types of waste to be eliminated.(1) ___________________ (2) ___________________ (3) ___________________ (4) ___________________ (5) ___________________ (6) ___________________ (7) ___________________

Which of the following is a lean production technique that has been successfully applied in service firms?

Which of the following is an element that addresses elimination of waste under lean production?

Uniform plant loading is a process of smoothing the production activity flow to dampen the reaction waves that normally occur in response to schedule variations.

In setting up a kanban control system, you need to determine the number of kanban card sets needed.If the expected demand during lead time is 24 per hour, safety stock is 10 percent of the demand during lead time, the container size is 5, and the lead time to replenish an order is 5 hours, what number of kanban card sets is needed? ___________________

Lean production is a management philosophy and a pull system throughout the plant.

JIT is typically applied to nonrepetitive manufacturing.

Which of the following is a lean production technique that is not reported in the textbook to have been successfully applied in service firms?

Using the formula in the textbook, the only parameters we need to determine the number of kanban card sets is the average number of units demanded over some time period, the container size, and the safety stock.