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EXAM – LEAN MANAGEMENT
SOLUTION
Total available time: 90 minutes
write down the answers to the questions on a blank sheet of paper, indicating your name, surname and
matriculation number and for each answer the number and/or letter of the question to which it relates.
EXERCISES (3,5 points)
1) A point of use (POU) needs pins with and average daily demand of 33 pieces. The Lead Time to obtain
the pins once the signal is given, is equal to 3 days. The company sets its safety stock in 30% of the
quantity. The Kanban/Container is sized for 4 pins. Calculate the Number of Kanban you need in the
process. (1 points)
Number of Kanban = Daily Demand * Lead Time * (1 + Safety Stock) / Container Quantity
Number of Kanban = 33
(the maximum integer number)
2)
One working day is 7h 30 min.
Given the above VSM, add the timeline and calculate the process efficiency. (2,5 points)
MULTIPLE CHOICES QUESTIONS (2,5 points)
0,5 point each correct answer, -0,25 if wrong.
1. Which one is the market winner for lean supply chain strategy?
a. Quality
b. Cost
c. lead time
d. Service level
2. What is the fill rate?
a. the percentage of customer demand that is met by immediate stock availability, without
backorders, stockouts or lost sales.
b. financial ratio that measures the efficiency of a company's use of its assets in generating
sales revenue or sales income to the company.
c. ratio that measures the average number of days the company holds its inventory before
selling it.
d. the time between when a business pays its suppliers and when the business receives
payment from its customers, usually expressed in days.
3. SIPOC means:
a. Suppliers, inventory, production, output, customer
b. Suppliers, inventory, procurement, outsourcing, customer
c. Suppliers, inputs, process, outsourcing, costs
d. Suppliers, inputs, process, outputs, customers
4. Kanban belongs to the principle of
a. Agile
b. Pull
c. Push
d. Forecasting
5. SDCA means:
a. Standard, define, categorise, assess
b. Standard, do, check, action
c. Standard, do, check, assess
d. Standard, do, classify, assess
OPEN QUESTIONS (24 points)
1) Describe the potential implications of industry 4.0 on Lean logistics concepts, especially referring to
JIT/JIS and cross-company Kanban. (max 14 lines) (9 points)
LECTURE 7 – slides 27, 28, 29, 30, 31
(part of slide 27 and the slides 28 and 30 were enough for the 9 points)
2) Describe the seven wastes identified by Lean and the possible impact on solid wastes. (max 7 lines)
(5 points)
LECTURE 6 – slide 10
3) Describe the following tools:
a. Supply-chain response matrix (max 6 lines) (5 points)
LECTURE 7 – slide 17
b. Decision point (decoupling point) analysis (max 6 lines) (5 points)
LECTURE 7 – slide 21
Lean Supply Chain Application – slide 128, 129, 130
The maximum number of rows is not a mandatory limit, it is only an indication.
