A sad kanban commentary ...
There's a shortage at the pump! The gas is going strong, but the 4s and 5s are not. Those plastic numbers that display painfully high gas prices on gas station marquees are at a shortage. Station managers throughout the country are reporting they have run out of 4s and 5s to use for their prices. Managers have ordered more, as prompted by the little kanban cards in their file cabinets proclaiming "Time to Reorder" in the absence of the numbers.
The New York Times reports a Greenwich Village station owner meekly admitting, "Typically we have a lot of 9s and 1s, and we had a shortage of 3s." Now that shortage has moved to 4s, and inevitably on to 5s. Oh, for the day when all those many 1s were used the most!
The visual communication is there, but sadly not even furthered lean implementation can help out this cause. The next time you drive past a gas station and see the price hastily scrawled in magic marker on the backs of numbered cards, think to yourself, "man, they need to step up that kanban system with a little Just-in-Time management!" and let thoughts of lean principles wash away the knowledge that you just spent $79.84 on a tank of gas.
There's a shortage at the pump! The gas is going strong, but the 4s and 5s are not. Those plastic numbers that display painfully high gas prices on gas station marquees are at a shortage. Station managers throughout the country are reporting they have run out of 4s and 5s to use for their prices. Managers have ordered more, as prompted by the little kanban cards in their file cabinets proclaiming "Time to Reorder" in the absence of the numbers.
The New York Times reports a Greenwich Village station owner meekly admitting, "Typically we have a lot of 9s and 1s, and we had a shortage of 3s." Now that shortage has moved to 4s, and inevitably on to 5s. Oh, for the day when all those many 1s were used the most!
The visual communication is there, but sadly not even furthered lean implementation can help out this cause. The next time you drive past a gas station and see the price hastily scrawled in magic marker on the backs of numbered cards, think to yourself, "man, they need to step up that kanban system with a little Just-in-Time management!" and let thoughts of lean principles wash away the knowledge that you just spent $79.84 on a tank of gas.
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