Essay on Operation Management.

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The particular essay is based on the management processes adopted by a company
with the intent of having better/improved performance. Therefore, here the company chose is
Toyota Motor Corporation. According to Sergey Sosnovskikh (2016) Toyota is a
multinational automotive having its headquarter of manufacturing in Japan and its
development of various management processes such as 'Kanban System,' 'Just in Time' and
'Total Quality Management' in its method of production for improved efficiency and
productivity.
Kanban refers to a visual system (signboard or billboard) of work through
management as it moves through a process. Therefore, Atlassian (2020) argues that this
concept is related to lean manufacturing and just-in-time production. This method is a process
for the gradual improvement of whatever one is doing, whether IT/Ops, software
development, marketing and sales, Staffing, procurement, etc. It can be said that most of the
business functions can avail advantages from the application of Kanban Methodology.
According to Monden (2012) in Toyota, it is used as a system for scheduling, telling what,
when, and how much to produce. Initially, this method was developed by Taiichi Ohno, an
industrial engineer at Toyota. Hence, Toyota uses the "Toyota Production System" to make
cars efficiently. The foremost objective of this system is eliminating the waste to deliver
vehicles to the customers quickly and feasibly. Perhaps, one of the elements of the Total
Production System of Toyota is that the significant parts are made and delivered as per the
requirement at the time of demand. Here comes the use of a particular card of "Kanban,"
which is used to make it possible. This is because Kanban describes the number of parts used
and where and therefore is attached to the parts box.
Interestingly, when any of the pat is taken from the box of parts and gets used,
Kanban too is removed. These removed Kanban are collected regularly from the process of
assembly and are sent to the parts factories. This factory, in turn, produces the numbers of
parts reflected by the Kanban. According to Towill (2010) in this manner, the Kanban system
averts the parts factories in making numerous factories and the process of assembling from
allocating space to parts of the store, which are not required at the very moment. Therefore it
is clear that with Kanban, which consequently has accelerated productivity together with a
reduction of cost-intensive inventory of semi-finished materials, raw materials, and finished
products.
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