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Friday, June 20, 2014

Kanban

Definition : Kanban literally means signboard or billboard in Japanese. It is first

implemented at Toyota in 1953 and as per Wikipedia "Kanban maintain

inventory levels; a signal is sent to produce and deliver a new shipment as

material is consumed. These signals are tracked through the replenishment

cycle and bring extraordinary visibility to suppliers and buyers"

As per Oracle White Paper on Kanban, "Kanban Cards are used in a Pull based

System. A pull based system is one where inventory items for a particular part or

assembly area are replenished as soon as they are needed. When the items are

needed, Kanban cards in Oracle Inventory change their Supply Status to Empty,

and Inventory generates the Kanban replenishment request automatically."

Kanban Source Type

Inter Org: This triggers an internal organization and item is sourced

from other organization.

Supplier : This triggers a Purchase requisition and insert records

into PO_REQUISITIONS_INTERFACE_ALL

Intra Org : This triggers a Replenishment Move order for Subinventory

Transfer within an Organization. Value of REFERENCE_ID in

MTL_TXN_REQUEST_LINES gives the KANBAN_CARD_ID in

MTL_KANBAN_CARDS

Production : This triggers creation of a WIP Job for make item and

records are inserted into WIP_JOB_SCHEDULE_INTERFACE

Cycle of a Kanban Card

New > Empty>Wait>In Process> Full

Setups and Test Cycle

Step1) Create a item "Kanban Item" using Purchased Item template

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Step2) Navigate to Inventory > Kanban> Pull Sequences >New

Source Tab

# Specify the item

# Take source type as Supplier

Kanban Tab

# Take Calculate as Kanban Size

# Specify a Kanban size

# Take Number of cards as 2

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Click on Open will show you all the information

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Save your work and click on Generate Cards

Click on Yes when Prompted for printing. Now click on Cards button

You can see the Card Status is Active and Supply Status is "New". Click on

"Replenish" button.

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That will change the Supply Status as Empty and also inserts the records in

PO_REQUISITIONS_INTERFACE_ALL table.

Step 3) To Import this record, run Requisition import from Purchasing

responsibility

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You can check the output of this request so see number of records created

Now navigate to Requisition summary form and find the requisition with item

number

Card status here still be empty

Step 4) Now AutoCreate Requisition in PO and approve the PO

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Check the card status now. It will be In Process

Step 5) Now create a receipt and deliver products in Stores subinventory

Now check Kanban Cards

Supply Status is Full Now

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Thanks

Mandeep