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  3. March 2007

Re: Kanban

We have a Kanban deal with Customer Orders. This approach info may or may not be helpful to you. I would be very interested to hear where other companies got Kan Ban to work on shop floor with BPCS since this is a hot topic with some managers at our company at present. It sounds like they would like it implemented but have no idea how to make it work with any ERP. It sounds to me like a theory that was developed independently of ERP theory. I also have concerns about enforceability. It would be very easy for humans to muck it up, given our track record for struggling with inventory reporting accuracy. 


The parts involved have an item class meaning Kan Ban.
We have safety stock in shipping warehouse of a quantity specified by the customer, and they pay us an agreed upon fee for this. We have a blanket order for estimated year supply due date far future, for purpose of driving PO stock of needed raw materials, but staying out of way of SO releases. Customer phones ... they need some quantity some item immediately & we ship that same day, out of safety stock, and the far future due data CO. 
Then  MRP tells us to replenish the safety stock.


It works well until customer changes rules but not enforce on their own people.
e.g. we have a customer that used to be Kan Ban, but stopped paying for the safety stock. They still phone wanting TODAY some item that takes a week to make.
We also have safety stock on some purchased raw materials, but the reasons are for other than Kanban. 


Is anyone using kanban techniques on the shop floor? Are you using an
electronic kanban solution or tying those transactions to BPCS or are
you manually creating the MO's and PO's?

Thanks in advance.

Frank





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