@inproceedings{6eed6a3d50584ab08dfa23c77156a61a,
title = "Guidelines for the selection of FIFO lanes and supermarkets for kanban-based pull systems - When to use a FIFO and when to use a supermarket",
abstract = "Modern lean production systems most often use a pull-based production control, usually implemented as kanban or CONWIP. The material flow in pull systems is managed using both FIFO lanes and supermarkets as inventories, which are well described in academic literature. However, there is so far little guidance as for when to use a supermarket and when to use a FIFO lane. This paper aims to provide an exhaustive list of considerations regarding the selection of a supermarket or FIFO lane between processes. While the detailed decisions depend on the particularities of the system, a number of general recommendations and considerations can be made. To the best knowledge of the authors, no such effort has been undertaken before, and we believe that this summary of considerations is long overdue and of immense value for the practitioner.",
keywords = "FIFO, Information flow, Kanban, Material flow, Pull, Supermarket, Value stream design",
author = "Christoph Roser and Masaru Nakano",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} IFIP International Federation for Information Processing 2015.; IFIP WG 5.7 International Conference on Advances in Production Management Systems, APMS 2015 ; Conference date: 07-09-2015 Through 09-09-2015",
year = "2015",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-319-22759-7_33",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783319227580",
series = "IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology",
publisher = "Springer New York LLC",
pages = "282--289",
editor = "Hajime Mizuyama and Hironori Hibino and Dimitris Kiritsis and Shigeki Umeda and {von Cieminski}, Gregor and Masaru Nakano",
booktitle = "Advances in Production Management Systems",
}