TY  - CONF
TI  - Strategic Takt Planning
C1  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
C3  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
SP  - 306
EP  - 317
PY  - 2025
DO  - 10.24928/2025/0116
AU  - Tommelein, Iris D.
AU  - Emdanat, Samir
AD  - Distinguished Professor, Civil and Environmental Engineering Department, Director, Project Production Systems Laboratory, University of California, Berkeley, USA, tommelein@berkeley.edu, orcid.org/0000-0002-9941-6596
AD  - President and Co-Founder, vPlanner, Dearborn, Michigan, USA, semdanat@vplannerapp.com, orcid.org/0000-0002-6606-3165
ED  - Seppänen, Olli 
ED  - Koskela, Lauri 
ED  - Murata , Koichi 
AB  - Reports on the use of takt tend to focus on applications aimed at so-called operational takt planning. Instead, this paper focuses on strategic takt planning. Strategic- and operational takt planning must go hand in hand. Specifically, strategic takt planning is required upfront in project delivery as it informs prospective contractors what is expected of them regarding their capacity allocation, and supply chains must be lined up to meet the crews’ just-in-time delivery needs to meet customer demand. Without a strategic takt plan that spells out assumptions embodied in the procurement schedule, it may be difficult (without later requiring contract adjustments) to onboard specialty contractors and suppliers who are then willing and able to jointly develop their operational takt plans and execute their work accordingly. This paper describes how, during strategic takt planning, project execution strategies can be explored based on alternative choices of a takt and the number of takt zones, and how plan options can be evaluated without requiring many project specifics. The computation and exploration of the merits of alternative options contribute to the body of knowledge on takt planning. They lead to better alignment between contracting- and operational strategies when maximizing flow is the objective.
KW  - Strategic takt planning
KW  - operational takt planning
KW  - takt production
KW  - project execution strategy.
PB  - 
T2  - Proceedings of the 33rd Annual Conference of the International Group for Lean Construction (IGLC 33)
DA  - 2025/06/02
CY  - Osaka and Kyoto, Japan
L1  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2315/pdf
L2  - http://iglc.net/Papers/Details/2315
N1  - Export Date: 02 June 2025
DB  - IGLC.net
DP  - IGLC
LA  - English
ER  -