Question

The Jewel Golf Club Company, which recently began using a Kanban system, has had problems with high inventory levels of one of the handle grips used to make several versions of its clubs. Daily demand for the grip is 3000 units, average waiting time during production is 0.20 day, processing time is 0.10 day per container, and a container holds 150 grips. How many Kanban containers would Jewel require if a 15% policy variable is used?

a. three or fewer
b. four or five
c. six or seven
d. eight or more

Answer 1

c. six or seven

Step-by-step explanation:

The computation of the number of kanban containers required is shown below:

Number of Kanbans = (Average Demand During lead Time + Safety Stock) ÷ Size of container

= (3,000 units × 0.3 + 0.15 × 3000 × 0.3) ÷ (150)

= (900 + 135) ÷ 150

= 6.9

So the number of kanbans required is 6.9 i.e. it lies between six or seven

hence the correct option is c.