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From Toyota perspective yes -- they can maintain appropriate kanban stocks in their individual factories and still pull as needed. Sounds like the suppliers mig
by sanarothe 5y ago
From Toyota perspective yes -- they can maintain appropriate kanban stocks in their individual factories and still pull as needed.
Sounds like the suppliers might be "strongarmed" by Toyota purchasing power.
- cortesoft 5y agoExcept if Toyota's business is worth the cost of keeping 2-6 months of product in the warehouse, it isn't really like an "unneeded resource" that the JIT approach would want to avoid. They are being paid (in a sense) to hold those parts, so it is not wasted.