Custom Kanban: Designing the System to Meet the Needs of Your Environment

In Custom Kanban: Designing the System to Meet the Needs of Your Environment, Raymond Louis helps you to develop and implement a correct and successful kanban system by selecting appropriate kanban techniques based on the specific environmental factors and needs of your company.

This compelling book:

• Fully details each respective kanban technique and includes a description of the environment it is intended to serve. You then select the technique for consideration if the environment described matches your own environment.
• Explains more than 20 design options and associated replenishment techniques so that you can custom fit your kanban system.
• Is the only text that thoroughly deals with both the design and implementation of a kanban system -- all in a single source.

This book will provide you with design options and implementation methods so that you can create and apply your own unique -- and successful -- kanban system.

About the Author

Raymond S. Louis, MBA, CPIM, C.P.M. has extensive hands-on experience in transforming traditional manufacturers into world class manufacturers. His company, Replenishment Technology Group, Inc. specializes in supply chain systems, administration automation, and lean manufacturing. Prior to operating his own company he has held positions as vice president of corporate logistics, operations manager, production manager, materials manager, director of production control, purchasing manager and inventory control manager with prominent United States firms.

Mr. Louis holds an MBA from the University of Phoenix and is certified CPIM by the American Production and Inventory Control Society and C.P.M. by the Institute for Supply Management.