ABSTRACT
This chapter compares the performance of the shared and dedicated kanban allocation policies under the application of the Extended Kanban Control Strategy (EKCS) and the Generalized Kanban Control Strategy (GKCS). It investigates how system and product factors affect production control strategy performance and how dedicating or sharing kanbans between the multiple products in a system will affect their respective service level (SL). The chapter also investigates the SL robustness of Dedicated Kanban Allocation Policy (DKAP) and Shared Kanban Allocation Policy (SKAP) of the EKCS and the GKCS in situations where changes occur to the original system conditions, for which they were optimized. It focuses on researching the application of the DKAP and the SKAP under the EKCS and the GKCS, the two kanban allocation policies also can be applied and researched in a similar way in some of the other pull and hybrid push-pull strategies.
