Implementing Pull Leveling Between an Automotive Industry and Its Customers

This paper ‘Implementing Pull Leveling Between an Automotive Industry And Its Customers’ is based on the detail study and implementation of pull leveling process which was carried out in one of the esteemed organization whose products are used in top companies to produce customer end products. The name of the automotive industry is used as ABCD here. The objective of this work was to avoid the impact of demand fluctuation directly to the pace maker process and to produce the product as per the customer demand in order to reduce inventory. The ABCD plant was following the first level of leveling process that is Push leveling, so to enable pull system (that is second level of leveling process), this work was initiated as System CIP project .Firstly to start with, we had a complete overview of the products and its Value Streams. We selected one value stream namely ILM-1 Value stream of ABCD. The finished goods of ILM-1 is been supplied to the high end customers like namely RT, VT, FT, CT etc, So we decided to start up the project as a pilot project for RT customers, whose products were produced in ILM-1.