Supply Chain Efficiencies Through EKanban: A Case Study

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Supply Chain Efficiencies Through E-Kanban A
Case Study

• Presenter name
• Presenter affiliation

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Overview

• Introduction
• Kanban, e-Kanban, EDI
• Discussion of e-Kanban case study
• Discussion of future research

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Kanban

• Lean management, just-in-time control technique
• Improve flow of goods in a business process
• Production, delivery of products only occurs when
  upstream demand needs it
• Work performed only when it is needed
• E-Kanban automates this process

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Electronic Data Interchange - EDI

• An IT system adopted by at least two partner
  organizations to exchange data electronically
• Benefits of EDI include timeliness, quality,
  costs
• In past, very expensive technology to purchase,
  maintain for small and medium sized organizations
• We examine a company using EDI with e-Kanban

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Case Study

• Parts supplier in automotive industry
• Produced a cockpit module (CPM) for a Japanese
  car manufacturer

Material and CPM flow for the organization
examined in this study
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Before e-Kanban CPM Process

• Picking up Kanban cards and emptying baskets in
  the line production
• Collecting Kanban cards and making a record
• Moving empty baskets and bringing Kanban cards
  back to the warehouse
• Sorting the Kanban cards
• Preparing the materials, attaching Kanban cards
• Delivering the materials to the factory
• Bringing the materials on the production floor

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After e-Kanban CPM Process
Conversion rate 1 ?35
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Future Research

• Improvements in CPM process
• Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology
  instead of utilizing the current bar code process
• Trade off between the benefits gained from using
  RFID and the cost to implement it

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Future Work

• Issues still remain for CPM process
• Inconsistent performance of current EDI service
  provider
• EDI system often shut down or unable to operate
• Company feels losing control of e-Kanban
  performance
• Company still lacks IT personnel to further
  integrate EDI within all company operations

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Discussion

• Questions or comments?