Michele Munaretti

Supply chain & operational excellence from an Austrian School perspective.

MRP as Central Planning

MRP fails for the same reasons Gosplan did: it tries to concentrate in a center knowledge that lives on the shop floor. What Hayek teaches us about the production plan.

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Kanban Is a Price System

Ohno solved on the shop floor the problem Mises and Hayek posed for the whole economy: knowledge cannot be centralized; it has to circulate. Why the kanban card works, where it stops, and what it teaches those who lead.

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