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Kanban  

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  • The Kanban system is a version of just-in-time (JIT) inventory management developed by Taiichi Ono, who initiated his experiments in organizing the flow of production on the shop floor at Toyoda Spinning and Weaving, carrying over his ideas to Toyota Motors. Informing JIT is the supermarket principle. [Source: Encyclopedia of Business in Today's World; Kanban]

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