You're selling shirts, jeans and shoes in a little town that is quite
- specific: every day someone get to your shop and buys 1 item.
+ specific: every hour someone get to your shop and buys 1 item and they
+ won't leave until they are satisfied!
- You know, from your years of experience, that shirts sell twice as much
- as
+ You know, from your years of experience, that in 3 days, you sell
+ approximately 5 shirts, 3 jeans, 2 pairs of shoes and 2 hats.
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Mean lead time: {{ heijunkaStore.meanLeadTime }}
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+ The longer the lead time is, the longer it takes to have return on
+ investment. You paid for the raw material, the workforce, the machines
+ but until the client receives the product you won't get paid.
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+ The more stock there is, the more latent payments there are and the more
+ paymeents are still waiting, the more you need to be good at planning
+ batches.
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+ Producing a bit of everything with small batches is the way to go and
+ that's the core of Heijunka
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What heijunka needs: SMED
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+ We didn't talk here about how we manage products that need different
+ time to be produced.
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