Hey everyone, welcome to this lecture, how to implement can ban in your organization. Implementing Kanban in your organization is not as simple as use of other lean tools. However, if done effectively, your organization can successfully achieve several benefits of a lean organization and definitely have an edge over your competitors. Let's look at the steps to implement Kanban in your organization. The first step is to visualize your flow. Your job is to look at your end to end business process, understand how a transaction flows and map it.

Visualization of your workflow is a key step. You should exactly know where are the bottlenecks, where is waiting involved, where do you stock inventory levels, etc. The next step is to identify what is the minimum level of work units required at a particular step in a process. In the supermarket example, you can calculate the number of items picked up from a particular location and does its trend. Accordingly, you can calculate the required safety stock so that the product doesn't become unavailable, you may have to calculate for all the products. Step three is to create a gauge or an indicator that will inform the team that the stock needs to be replenished.

As soon as the product reaches minimum levels of availability, it should trigger an indication requesting the depleted stock to be replenished. This gauge is nothing but use of konban. Step four is to replenish the stock from the available safety stock. This is another important step to ensure pool system works effectively as soon as you can. To know that the required stock needs to be replenished, it is important to have that field. Step five, optimize your Kanban system by regularly studying the process.

Kanban implementation is not a one time activity, it is advisable to study the requirements of your customers, the number of times they pick up or order a particular product, the availability of safety stocks, among others. As you come across new findings, it is important to incorporate them in the process. Continuing the feedback loop is the best way to progress and keep earning profits. Thus, to summarize our discussion, there are five broad steps to implement Kanban in your organization. Step one is to visualize your workflow. Step two is to identify the minimum level of work units required at a particular step in the process.

Steps Three is to create a gauge or an indicator to identify the need of replenishing the stock. Step four is to have the product replenished from the available safety stock. Step five is to optimize your Kanban system by regularly studying the process. That brings us to the end of this lecture. Thank you for attending. See you in the next one.