Question

Jane Cagle’s company wants to establish kanbans to feed a newly established work cell. The following data have been provided. How many kanbans are needed?Daily demand 750 unitsLead time 1/2 daysSafety stock 1/4 daysKanban size 25 untis

Answer 1

22.5

Explanation:

According to the given situation, the computation of the number of kanbans is shown below:-

Number of kanbans needed = [(Demand × Lead time) + (Demand × Safety stock)] ÷ Kanban size

= (750 × 0.5) + (750 × 0.25) ÷ 25

= 22.5

Therefore for computing the number of Kanbans we simply applied the above formula by considering all items