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Detailed notes, including lecture notes, reading list book summaries and essay plans for the Oxford University FHS Technology & Operations Management course's section on the Toyota Production System and Inventory Management (Week 2 & 3 of the course).

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Inventory Management

Inventory Introduction
 Inventory Management- The value of materials and goods held by an organization
o To support production (raw materials, subassemblies, work in process),
o For support activities (repair, maintenance, consumables), or
o For sale or customer service (merchandise, finished goods, spare parts).
 Financing (cash) is very important for any enterprise
 Two ways of looking at it:
 Cash positive: pay the supplier months later e.g. Sainsbury’s BUT need market power
 Cash Negative: pay before selling e.g. corner store
 Inventory can be seen as an insurance/ and asset

Types of inventory
 Raw Materials:
o Materials to which the manufacturer has not yet added value.
 Work-in-progress or Work-in-process (WIP):
o Materials to which the manufacturer has added some value but still has more to
add
o May be held in temporary storage
 Finished Goods
o Goods ready for shipment to the customers, with no more value to be added
o Also consider service parts...
 Safety and Cycle Stock
o Safety stock: non-active component to protect against fluctuations of demand,
production and supply
o Cycle stock: active component that depletes over time, and is replenished
cyclically
 Terminology: Stock-keeping Unit (SKU): an item at a particular location

Advantage of higher inventory
 Cheaper product (bulk buy)
 Less risk of not having enough stock to meet demand- bugger against uncertainty
o Uncertainty in terms of:
 Market demand (seasonality, promotions, etc.)
 Production throughput (quality, machine breakdown, etc.)
 Supply of components
o Inventory gives you better service if demand and/or production are variable
o Inventory compensates for difference in the timing of demand & resource flows
in materials processing for non-perishable goods
 Exploitation of price fluctuations
o Raw materials: cocoa, coffee, etc
 Smoothing or levelling of production
o Small variation can be buffered through final goods inventory
 Enables the achievement of economies of scale
 Little’s Law implies there is a minimum inventory needed to run the factory

, o John DC Little’s Theorem gives a simple relation between inventory & lead time.
o Applies to all types of systems




o Example: A company assembles computers. The process has three stages –
assembly, testing and packing – which take 975 minutes in total. A work day has
7.5 hours, av. daily demand is 1,600 unit. Current WIP levels (for all three
processes combined) are 4,800 units The consultants hired by the CEO think this
is too much, and suggest to reduce stock by 50%




Disadvantages of higher inventory that make it expensive
 Ties up working capital
 Takes up space
 Gets lost , Gets stolen
 Gets broken, goes off, Becomes obsolete
 Needs handling
 Hides the problems- buffers system from learning
 Cost involved:
o Cost of capital: value*i, i=interest rate per unit time
o Opportunity cost: How much would the capital earn otherwise?
o Depreciation of goods
o Stock obsolescence and deterioration
o Quality defects due to handling
o Labour and handling
o Warehousing, rent and energy
o Insurance and overhead to admin labour, space, etc.
 Overall costs:

, o Typical estimate is 20-30%, but often excludes quality, depreciation, and
opportunity cost
o Key issue: estimates almost always too conservative!

Advantages of lower inventory (Lean & JIT)
 More flexibility in that can quickly respond to changes in consumer demand,
circumstances etc
 Lower upfront costs- less risk of losing money & sunk costs
 Lower storage costs
 Less money tied up in stock

Disadvantages of lower inventory (Lean & JIT)
 Some higher costs- storage, more frequent transportation
 Risk of delays- not as quick

Inventory Management
 Managing inventory
o Minimise the costs of placing orders & holding inventory
 Managing demand
o TPS & customer pull
o Forecast demand, and plan accordingly
 Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)
 Manufacturing Resources Planning (MRP II)
 Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Lean Production
 Krafcik, J.F. (1988): After the Fordist school of thought there was a shift towards more
worker control. The Toyota Production System (TPS) was just original Fordism with a
Japanese slant
o NUMMI executive: "We have 2,100 team members working on the factory floor,
therefore we have 2,100 industrial engineers
o The increased span of worker control combined with Ford system basics led to
the second great leap in manufacturing production
o Toyota succeeded with continuous flow principles
 BUFFERED (Western) vs. LEAN (Japanese) production systems
 Lean production risk reduced through flexibility
 Lean workers have authority to stop the line – builds skills and flexibility
 Customer centric philosophy which aims to meet demand instantaneously, with perfect
quality and no waste
 Key elements when used as an improvement approach:
o Customer centricity
o Internal customer-supplier relationships
o Goal of perfection
o Synchronised flows
o Reduced variation
o Including all people
o Waste elimination

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