Purpose

Various master data must be set for Kanban production control in order to replenish a material using Kanban, to enable a fully automated creation of purchase requisitions, production orders and other replenishment elements and to carry out goods movement.

Features

Kanban material is delivered direct to production and made available in so-called production supply areas. The production supply area (PSA) may be an area of shelving or other kind of storage area. One or more work centers may have access to one supply area. For the purposes of inventory management, the production storage areas are each assigned to a storage location. Only the kanbans are managed in the production supply area. Inventory management for the material is carried out at the storage location to which the PSA is assigned. Either a separate storage location can be assigned to each production supply area or a joint storage location assigned to several or all PSAs belonging to a plant.

Therefore, production supply areas must be created and have storage locations assigned to them. See also Production Supply Area and Storage Location Assignment for Kanban

Production is further subdivided into areas controlled by the so-called persons responsible for production. Thus, control functions and responsibility are transferred back to the shop floor, fulfilling one of the main Kanban requirements. The person responsible for production may be responsible for stocks at one or more production supply areas in the role of demand source. Acting as supply source, he may be charged with monitoring the materials manufactured in his area.

The person responsible for production must also be created and assigned. See also Person Responsible for Production in Kanban .

The relationship between the demand source and the supply source is defined in the control cycle. The main information contained in the control cycle is the replenishment type and the number of kanbans or quantity per kanban. You can specify the number of kanbans and the quantity per kanban manually. However, as the requirement situation in many branches of industry may be prone to considerable fluctuation, the system also provides an automatic kanban calculation. The system uses this function to monitor, calculate and adjust the parameters on a regular basis. See Control Cycle .

Furthermore, the replenishment strategies must be defined. In the control cycle, it is defined in which way replenishment is to take place for the materials. See also: Replenishment Strategy .