Lean Supply Chain Management Essentials

LeveLIng and heIjunka 61

piece flow or via a FIFO process, and therefore need no schedule. Prior processes

upstream of the schedule would be attached via a pull system, and would simply

make what the schedule had pulled out of the supermarket that it supplies, there-

fore also requiring no schedule. e result of this is that all processes are basically

making to the exact same schedule that was put at the single schedule point, and

no inventory is built other than that called for by replacing what was used in the

supermarket.

To review heijunka:

• e main purpose is to balance demand and capacity.

• S&OP deals with volume and setting takt t