Kanban setup

The kanban supply system setup includes:

Shop floor warehouse and items

The shop floor warehouses that are supplied using the KANBAN supply system can be defined as normal or shop floor warehouses. To define a warehouse as a shop floor warehouse, select Shop Floor in the Warehouse Type field of the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session.

Typically, the items are defined as Manufactured, Purchased, or Product items, but the kanban system also allows the use of floor stock items. To define an item as a floor stock item, select the Floor Stock check box in the Item - Warehousing (whwmd4600m000) session.

Item and supply settings

To enable the supply of items to a warehouse using the kanban supply system, in the Item Data by Warehouse (whwmd2110s000) session:

On the Supply tab

  1. In the Supply System field, select KANBAN.
  2. If the item is supplied from a warehouse, the Supply from Warehouse check box must be selected and the Supply Warehouse can be specified.

  3. If the item is supplied by a supplier or a work center, the Supply from Warehouse check box must be cleared. The item type determines whether the item is supplied by a work center or a supplier:

    • If the item type is Purchased, the item is supplied by a supplier. A buy-from business partner and a ship-from business partner can be specified to supply the item. If no buy-from business partner and ship-from business partner are specified, LN retrieves the item's default supplier from the Items - Purchase Business Partner (tdipu0110m000) session.
    • If the item type is Manufactured, the item is supplied from a work center. LN retrieves the work center from the Job Shop Control module in Manufacturing.

    • If the item type is Product, the supply source of the item displayed in the Actual Supply Source field of the Items (tcibd0501m000) session determines from where supply takes place:

      • A business partner if the supply source is Purchase.

      • A work center if the supply source is:

        • Shop Floor
        • Repetitive
        • Assembly
        • Distribution
Note

If you change the supply system from KANBAN into another supply system when active kanban signals are present, the question: "Active signals exist. Continue?" is displayed. If you click Yes, the active signals are set to inactive, and all signal related fields retain their values and become read-only. This is to ensure that you can easily switch back to supply system KANBAN.

Signal settings

  1. On the Kanban tab of the Warehouse Master Data Parameters (whwmd0100s000) session:

    • Select the Reuse Kanban Signals check box to determine whether kanban signals are reusable by default.
    • Specify the default mask for kanban labels in the ID Mask field.

  2. On the Kanban tab of the Warehouses (whwmd2500m000) session:

    • Select the Reuse Kanban Signals check box to determine whether kanban signals are reusable for the items stored in the warehouse.
    • Specify the kanban label mask for the warehouse in the Kanban Signal ID Mask field.

  3. On the Kanban tab of the Item Data by Warehouse (whwmd2110s000) session, specify these fields:

Loop settings

On the Kanban tab of the Item Data by Warehouse (whwmd2110s000) session, specify a value for these fields:

The number of kanban signals can be specified manually or calculated by LN. To calculate the number of signals, you must also specify a value for these fields:

Note

To easily respond to demand fluctuations, in the Global Update of KANBAN Parameters (whinh2200m100) session, you can adjust kanban supply settings for selected ranges of warehouses and items.

Note

If you use the DEM Content Pack with Infor LN, consider using the MPL0030 (Kanban) wizard to set up kanban. You can execute this predefined wizard from the Wizards by Project Model (tgwzr4502m000) session after you specified the business function model for your company.

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