Supermarkets
A supermarket is a logistics work center modeled as a machine with a category of
'Supermarket'. Each supermarket typically has a number of locations associated with it, where
material can be stored.
More easily described as a mini-warehouse inside the production area of the factory, when material is required in production, it is delivered from the supermarket, improving the speed of delivery because of these factors:
- Closer to production, reducing transport time
- Smaller, making it easier to manually find the location of the requested materials
- Less crowded, in terms of inventory, but also the number of people and forklifts and other moving equipment
A supermarket should not be stand-alone machines but machines linked to the [None] line section, otherwise they appear in reports and production dashboards.
Supermarkets support the Kanban process within factories.