Find out how one of the best-kept secrets of the workplace can help you save time, increase workflow, maximize customer value, and more.
In any business, the visualization of workflow is often tough to imagine in terms of identifying output and quality.
Kanban is a logic that is used by the Japanese. “Kan” means “visual,” and “Ban” means “card.” This concept is very much related to lean and just in time production, which is used as a scheduling system and gives an indication of what to produce when to produce, and how to produce.
In simple terms, Kanban is a visual system for managing work moving through a process. It reduces waste by limiting work-in-progress and maximizing customer value.
“In any business, the visualization of workflow is often tough to imagine in terms of identifying output and quality.
Kanban revolves mainly around productivity and efficiency, which also tie back to the reduction of waste. It focuses on all forms of waste reduction, including overproduction, unnecessary motion, defects, over-processing, and wait.
How does it work?
The simplest example of Kanban being effective is in supermarkets. Supermarkets always use Kanban scheduling, because they have the highest inventory turnover of any other business; they need to provide items on the shelves at all times and on a continuous basis. Some specialists say that the supermarket was the original inspiration for Kanban.
In modern supermarkets, once a customer selects an item and checks it out through the counter, the clerk scanner sends an electronic signal to the warehouse, which indicates that a particular item has been checked out. The item has been reduced from the shelf and will need to be replaced eventually. Once the indications reach a certain, set level, the warehouse to resends the item, immediately replenishing the item at the supermarket.
“Kanban allows people to focus more on the work that matters most, which also leads to the improvement of time management of the work.
In helping to eliminate waste from processes, projects, or workflow—which in most cases leads to an improvement in the productivity—Kanban allows people to focus more on the work that matters most, which also leads to the improvement of time management of the work.
At the end of the day, Kanban scheduling can give you a peace of mind, assuring that the workflow is smooth and working in a manner that products are being delivered to the customers’ reach in a timely, continuous manner.
