{"id":1655,"date":"2017-12-26T08:53:10","date_gmt":"2017-12-26T16:53:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2017-12-26T08:53:10","modified_gmt":"2017-12-26T16:53:10","slug":"supply-chain-operations-management-glossary-k","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/uncategorized\/supply-chain-operations-management-glossary-k\/","title":{"rendered":"Supply Chain and Operations Management Glossary (K)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Kaizen:<\/strong>\u00a0a Japanese business philosophy meaning to seek continuous improvement.<\/p>\n<p><strong>kanban:<\/strong>\u00a0WIP inventory control system developed at Toyota. A kanban (literally \u201caction plate\u201d in Japanese) is analogous to a recirculating internal PO. That is, when a unit is taken from inventory, a request is automatically generated to the supplier to provide another unit. It is a \u201cpull\u201d system, roughly equivalent to a base stock inventory system. The number of kanbans inserted into the system is essentially equivalent to the reorder point r.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nkilogram:<\/strong>\u00a01000 grams. 2.2046 pounds. See SI units.<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\nkit:<\/strong>\u00a0a collection of components placed together, perhaps in a container, that tend to be used together. For example, one may have a standard repair kit for a repairman that contains the components that strike the best compromise of being most likely to be needed, cheap, complementary, and small. knot: 6,076 feet\/hour.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kaizen:\u00a0a Japanese business philosophy meaning to seek continuous improvement. kanban:\u00a0WIP inventory control system developed at Toyota. A kanban (literally \u201caction plate\u201d in Japanese) is analogous to a recirculating internal PO. That is, when a unit is taken from&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1655"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1657,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1655\/revisions\/1657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1655"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1655"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aiminsight.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1655"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}