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Use

If you wish to use Kanban on a cross-plant basis, you can use the replenishment strategy Processing with Stock Transport Orders . In this case, the material that is needed in one plant is stored in another plant of the same enterprise. As soon as the employee in the consuming plant sets a kanban container to Empty , the system automatically creates a stock transport order requesting the other plant to deliver the material that is needed.

Note Note

As an alternative to using stock transport orders, you can also use stock transport scheduling agreements for such stock transfers.

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Prerequisites

  • You have specified Processing with Stock Transport Orders as replenishment strategy for external procurement 0003 in the control cycle of the material.

  • In this replenishment strategy, you have made the following Customizing settings:

    • Control type : 3 Processing with Stock Transport Order

    • ○        Order type : UB (Stock Transport Order)

  • If the removal from storage at the supplying plant is to be carried out using MM functionality, the indicator for the delivery type must have been set to blank in Customizing for Purchasing ( Purchase Order Processing -> Set Up Stock Transport Order ). If the stock transfer is to be carried out as SD processing, you must maintain the appropriate delivery type.

Activities

  1. As soon as the employee in the receiving plant has set a kanban container to Empty , the system automatically creates a stock transport order.

  2. In the supplying plant, the system simultaneously creates a release order. The material is procured and the kanban container made available.

  3. The employee in the issuing plant sets the status of the kanban container to In Transit and enters a stock transfer against the purchase order with the movement type 351 .

  4. In the receiving plant, the employee sets the status of the kanban container to Full . The system then posts the goods receipt of the material with the movement type 101 .