Printing and Circulating Kanbans 
Use
In the following paragraphs, the various options for printing and circulating the kanbans (cards) are described. The form for printing the kanban is determined in the replenishment strategy.
Features
Single kanban print
The kanbans (cards) are only printed once or they are printed for replacement purposes using the Create control cycle and Change control cycle functions. The same kanban is used over and over again. The following options exist:
- The kanban card circulates between the supply source and the demand source with the container.
- The kanban card is passed from the demand source to the supply source without a container but returns to the demand source with one. Here, you have to organize the transport of the cards to the supply source.
- The card remains at the demand source and is attached to the full kanban or is stored without a kanban at a predefined location. There is no information on the circulating kanbans and the information on empty kanbans is kept at the demand source. Information is passed on to the supply source by means of the kanban board.
Kanban (card) reprinted for every control cycle run
The kanban is thrown away at the end of each control cycle. Here, you have the following options for reprinting the new kanbans:
- Kanban printed when replenishment is triggered
With in-house production or for stock transfer, the kanban is printed at the supply source. This means:
- The kanban does not have to be transported to the supply source
- The kanban can be used as an extra written request for delivery (for example, for in-house production with planned orders or manual kanbans).
- For production orders, printing is carried out using the print control for production orders, in all other cases, it is carried out using the KANBAN transaction. (The output device is taken from the control cycle, and the form from the replenishment strategy.)
- Kanban printed at goods receipt posting
It makes sense to print the kanban at goods receipt for external procurement with central goods receipt. If you work with a strategy where the GR is carried out automatically in the background as soon as the status is changed to FULL, then do not use this print control technique. The kanban is printed when a GR is posted for a purchase order or a production order (or a stock transfer reservation) using the GR function in Inventory Management. This means:
- The kanban is printed with or instead of the GR papers and is attached to the kanban.
- The kanban is printed using the GR print control.
- Kanban printed at backflush (for planned order and manual kanban). This means:
- The kanban is printed at the supply source and is sent to the demand source along with the kanban.
- The kanban is printed using the settings in the control cycle.
- Kanban printed with the purchase order to which it is attached. This means:
- The kanban is printed together with the purchase order and must be defined as a part of the order form. The order form controls whether or not a kanban is printed and not the entries in the control cycle.
- The kanban is printed along with the purchase order print.
Exception: kanbans printed by vendor
The data required to print the kanban is passed on to the vendor in the purchase order. Settings as in single kanban print.