Kanban board

Kanban board

Use

The kanban board is available to provide the demand source and the supply source with a detailed overview of the kanban circulation. You can also use the kanban board to trigger the kanban signal.

Features

Kanban status

The kanbans are displayed in different colors according to their status. You can view the color legend by selecting Kanban board ® Legend.

The following information on kanbans is available in the kanban board:

Kanbans with status EMPTY for which replenishment has been triggered. That is, a planned, production, or purchase order for external replenishment has been created in the background.
Kanbans with status FULL, from which you can withdraw material.

In control cycles where the status change and goods receipt are separated, the system also displays whether the separate goods receipt for the full kanban has already been made or not.

Kanbans with status WAIT. These are:

kanbans that have been newly introduced to the control cycle and for which no procurement has yet been triggered

kanbans in control cycles, for which Independent Supply Source/Separation of Status Change and Replenishment has been defined. In this case, replenishment is not triggered automatically when the demand source changes the status. Instead, the supply source triggers replenishment

kanbans that have been assigned the locking indicator and for which no replenishment has been triggered since they were set to EMPTY

Kanbans that have been given the status IN PROCESS or IN TRANSIT by the supply source. Please also see Kanban Board from the Supply Source View .

Kanbans with the status INCORRECT.

If an error occurs in the automatic posting procedure, the kanban is considered, incorrect.

Kanbans with the status LOCKED.

Kanbans can only be locked in the control cycle or by the kanban calculation. Please also read Creating/Changing a Control Cycle for Classic KANBAN and Automatic Kanban Calculation

Kanbans with the status, SEPARATE GR FOR KANBAN.

Display Options

You can change the display of the kanban board by selecting the Display menu option. You can then save your own user-specific layout. The following options are available:

display with or without empty lines
display without kanban quantity, without material number, with abbreviated material description
display with or without kanban numbers

Search Function

Using the search function, you can search for materials or supply areas. Choose Select. Then, in the following dialog box enter the material number or the supply area. If the system can find the object you require, it displays it in the first row of the kanban board.

Additional Information

You can access additional kanban information by double-clicking on the kanban. This information includes: This information includes: control cycle material plant actual quantity status date of the last status change replenishment strategy number of the replenishment element. In the Kanban information dialog box, you can change or display the replenishment element for empty kanbans using the Change replenishment or the Display replenishment pushbuttons. If errors have occurred, error messages will be displayed.

You can display the control cycle data by double-clicking on the control cycle line.

You can display the current stock/requirements list by placing the cursor on the control cycle line and selecting Goto ® Stock/reqmts list.

You can display the stock overview by placing the cursor on the control cycle lines and selecting Goto ® Stock overview.

Kanban correction

You can access the kanban correction screen from the demand source via Goto.

For the Kanban correction procedure, see Kanban Correction