Assignment:
Hartley Electronics, Inc., in Nashville, produces short runs of custom airwave scanners for the defense industry. The owner, Janet Hartley, has asked you to reduce inventory by introducing a kanban system. After several hours of analysis, you develop the following data for scanner connectors used in one work cell. How many kanbans do you need for this connector?
| Daily demand |
1,000 connectors |
| Lead time |
2 days |
| Safety stock |
1/2 days |
| Kanban size |
500 connectors |
Provide complete and step by step solution for the question and show calculations and use formulas.