Many people misunderstand pull planning, a central practice in the Last Planner® System. It stems, in part, from an unfortunate characterization that some early LPS practitioners made. They called pull planning “reverse phase scheduling.” That name only tells one small part of the story. The purpose of pull planning is to design a project-based production [...]
Understand the Pull Planning Question
September 11, 2011 By Leave a Comment
The first installment in the Pull Planning Primer explored the confusion people have between the activity they can observe and the outcomes they are pursuing with pull planning. One of the keys to success in designing a production system based on lean principles is to get all of the work experts who are supervising the [...]