Grouping Kanbans to a Summarized JIT Call

Grouping Kanbans to a Summarized JIT Call

Use

You group material requirements, or kanbans, in order to achieve optimization in delivery. If you have set the grouping of material requirements in the system, then on emptying a kanban, the system checks whether this material requirement can be attached to an existing summarized JIT call. If this is the case, then the system generates an item for an existing summarized JIT call. If this is not the case, the system creates a new summarized JIT call.

In principle, you can only group kanbans that have

the same vendor
the same message partner
the same plant

and have not yet been transmitted.

If you decide to group kanbans, then you may choose the type of grouping.

according to plant
according to plant and unloading point
according to delivery date (if you group according to delivery date, then you must also always group according to plant or according to plant and unloading point).

Prerequisites

You have defined the grouping of material requirements in the JIT call profile (Customizing for KANBAN):

You have maintained a partner function.

You have placed the message partner in the scheduling agreement by entering the partner function. The system can calculate the message partner via the partner function in the JIT call profile.

You have defined the type of grouping (according to plant or plant and unloading point or also according to delivery date by making an entry in Time definition).
You have entered the JIT call profile in your control cycle.

Features

Grouping according to plant

You group requirements, which are in the same plant.

- Here, you define a partner function and the grouping according to plant in the JIT call profile.

On emptying the kanban, the system checks whether there is already a summarized JIT call for this plant. If so, the system creates a new item in an existing summarized JIT call, if this is not the case, a new JIT call is created.

Grouping according to plant and unloading point

You group requirements, which are delivered to the same unloading point.

- Here, you define a partner function and the grouping according to plant and unloading point in the JIT call profile.

The process is the same as grouping according to plant.

Grouping according to plant

You group together requirements, whose delivery dates lie within a specific period.

- Here, you define a partner function and the grouping according to plant or according to plant and unloading point in the JIT call profile.

- In addition you define a time definition in Customizing for KANBAN that can use either exact days or exact times.

For grouping using exact times, enter the following:

· Grouping

· Shift sequence

· Factory calendar

For grouping using exact days, you need:

· Plant

· Planning calendar

- You enter this time definition in the JIT call profile.