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 Master Data and Settings for Kanban

In order that you, as customer, can implement kanban processing in the SAP Supply Network Collaboration ( SAP SNC ), you must set up the required master data in SAP SNC . In addition to the general master data for supplier collaboration in SAP SNC, kanban-specific master data (kanban control cycles and supply areas) is necessary for kanban processing. You can create this master data manually in the SAP SNC system. If you use an SAP system as your back-end system (as of SAP R/3 4.6C or as of SAP DI 4.6C2 for an automotive system) and have already set up control cycles and supply areas, you can transfer this data to SAP SNC using the report KANBAN_MD_TRANSMIT . With regard to this master data, the back-end system is the leading system. If kanban master data changes in the back-end system, you update the master data in SAP SNC using the report. (You can lock kanbans, for example.)

General Master Data

You must also create the following supplier collaboration master data for kanban processing in SAP SNC:

  • Model 000

  • Planning version 000

  • Ship-from location

  • Customer location

  • Factory calendar

  • Products

  • Business partner (customer)

  • Business partner (supplier)

  • Internet user for customer and supplier

  • Transportation lane between ship-from location and customer location and means of transport

    You must assign a means of transport to the transportation lane. The system uses the transportation time for scheduling ASNs that the supplier creates for empty kanbans.

Special Kanban Master Data

You must either transfer the following kanban-specific master data from an SAP back-end system to SAP SNC or create it manually in SAP SNC:

  • Control Cycle

    If you want to procure a product from a supplier for a specific supply area in the customer location with kanban, a control cycle must be available in SAP SNC for this combination of customer, supplier, customer location, supplier location, product, and supply area. You can manually create control cycles in SAP SNC on the SAP Easy Access screen, by choosing Start of the navigation path Supply Network Collaboration Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Application-Specific Master Data Next navigation step Kanban Next navigation step Maintain Kanban Control Cycles. End of the navigation path The kanban control cycle contains the following data:

    • Control cycle category

      The following control cycle categories are available:

      • Classic kanban

      • Event-driven kanban

        The control cycle category is displayed in the kanban overview. The control cycle category does not have a control function in SAP SNC.

    • Container quantity

      This is the quantity that each container of a kanban control cycle can contain.

    • Reference Document

      For a control cycle, you must specify the number of the scheduling agreement or the contract in the back-end system to which the kanban requests for the control cycle refer. SAP SNC can use the reference document to determine the control cycle ID for a kanban request ( ReplenishmentOrderNotification ) at receipt. Alternatively, the ReplenishmentOrderNotification can also contain a control cycle ID directly.

    • Supply area

      You must enter a name in the control cycle for the supply area.

    • Response time

      The response time is an SAP SNC-specific parameter that you use in SAP SNC to generate alerts for late supplier responses to empty kanbans. You cannot transfer this parameter from the SAP back-end system. Rather, you must enter the parameter in SAP SNC in the control cycle. In SAP SNC , the /SCA/DM_KNBN_SETDEF_RESTIME report allows you to define a control-cycle-independent default response time for all control cycles of a customer. For online processing, you call the report on the SAP Easy Access screen, by choosing Start of the navigation path Supply Network Collaboration Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Application-Specific Master Data Next navigation step Kanban Next navigation step Set Default Response Time End of the navigation path .

    • Packaging material

      Here you specify the product number of the kanban container material. (You must have created a location product master for the packaging material.) The product number of the packaging material is displayed in the kanban processing Web UI. In the packaging function of ASN processing, there is no validation check which forces the supplier to use this packaging material for packing.

    • Total number of kanbans in a kanban control cycle

    • Number of active kanbans

  • Descriptions of supply areas

    You can also transfer descriptions of supply areas from the SAP back-end system. If there are no descriptions in the SAP back-end system, you create the descriptions in the SAP SNC system. To do so, on the SAP Easy Access screen, choose Start of the navigation path Supply Network Collaboration Next navigation step Master Data Next navigation step Application-Specific Master Data Next navigation step Kanban Next navigation step Maintain Kanban Control Cycles End of the navigation path .

Advanced Shipping Notifications (ASNs)

Set up the following data for ASNs:

Number Range for Kanban Requests (Purchase Orders)

You must also set up number assignment for kanban requests.

Other Settings

For more information about the settings that are necessary for a kanban scenario with an SAP back-end system, for example for inbound and outbound message processing or for processing goods receipts in ASN processing, see the Configuration Content for SAP Solution Manager under Start of the navigation path Solutions Next navigation step SAP for Automotive Next navigation step Scenarios Next navigation step Web-Based Supplier Kanban End of the navigation path .