2nd ICAI 2022

International Conference on Automotive Industry 2022

Mladá Boleslav, Czech Republic

Figure 1: The structure of Supply chain Management

Source: https://www.sap.com/sk/insights/what-is-supply-chain-management-scm.html Managing the supply chain, companies can cut excess costs and deliver products to the consumer faster. This is done by keeping tighter control of internal inventories, internal production, distribution, sales, and the inventories of company vendors (Fernando, J., 2022). Having all these items of chain under control, the managers use various tools to analyse and view individual chain processes. The forms and methods that are the most common are the subject of Visual Management. It is highly used within coordination of production activities as well as the running of internal logistics or applying of supply chain management lean tools. 1.2 The Merit of Visual management Visual management is a form of communication mostly used to give a snapshot of manufacturing operations. It is a system of information displays, visual controls, labels and signs, colour coding and other markings. The goal of visual management is to translate shop floor processes and production statuses into easy-to-understand visual overviews. With one glance, the whole team can get an understanding of a factory’s performance (Tulip, 2020), (see Fig. 2).

Figure 2: Visual management form

Source: (Narad Consulting, 2016)

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