Sunday, April 16, 2017

PP Kanban

Kanban is a procedure for controlling production and material flow based on the physical material stock in production. 
Material that is required on a regular basis is continually kept available in small quantities in production. With Kanban, the replenishment or production of a material is triggered only when a certain quantity of the material has been consumed. 
This replenishment is triggered directly by production using previously maintained master data. Entries in the system are reduced to a minimum - for example, to the input of a bar code. All other actions in the system are carried out automatically in the background.
With Kanban, the production process is designed to control itself and the manual posting effort is reduced as far as possible. The effects of this are the shortening of lead times and reductions in stock levels.
With Kanban, the impulse or signal for the delivery of material can consist in the work center that needs a material (consumer, demand source) sending a card to the work center that produces the material (producer, supply source), for example. This card describes which material and how much of it is required, and where it is to be delivered. 
These cards (in Japanese "kanbans") have given this procedure its name. When the material is received, the goods receipt at the demand source can be posted automatically via a further kanban signal per bar code.

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