Leblanc Electronics, Inc., in Nashville, produces short runs of customer airwave scanners for the defense industry. You have been asked by the owner, Larry Leblanc, to reduce inventory by introducing a kanban system. After several hours of analysis, you develop the following data for scanner connectors used in one work cell. How many kanbans do you need for this connector?

Daily demand .......1000 connectors

Lead time ..........2 days

Safety stock .........½ day

Kanban size .........500 connectors