Oracle Kanban Planning
Oracle Kanban Planning
Oracle Kanban Planning
Kanban means “visible record” or “visible part”. In general context, it refers to a signal of some
kind. Thus, in the manufacturing environment, kanbans are signals used to replenish the
inventory of items used repetitively within a facility. The kanban system is based on a customer
of a part pulling the part from the supplier of that part. The customer of the part can be an
actual consumer of a finished product (external) or the production personnel at the succeeding
station in a manufacturing facility (internal). Likewise, the supplier could be the person at the
preceding station in a manufacturing facility. The premise of kanbans is that material will not be
produced or moved until a customer sends the signal to do so.
New: kanban just created and not yet part of replenishment chain
Empty: kanban is empty and replenishment signal has been generated - impacts Inter-Org and
Supplier source types
Full: kanban has been replenished and material is available for use
Wait: kanban is waiting for minimum order quantity to be met by the aggregation of cards.
Inprocess: For the Supplier source type, PO has been approved. For Inter-Org source type,
internal requisition has been approved
Assigned to inventory
Navigate to Kanban > Pull Sequences > New
Card is like container, in this instance I have defined the card value as 2 which means there are
two containers and each will have 150 items in it.
Lets add one more row as below.
Now we have to generate cards, cards can be generated in two ways manually and
automatically.
Lets generate the card for the first row automatically and the second one manually.
Select the first row and click on Generate Tab
Click on yes
Once the cards are generated, click on Cards Tab to see the card sequence.
Here the supply status is New
Now lets generate card for the second line manually, so close this form and select the second
line, click on cards.
Give number manually as shown below and save the page.
The supply status is new here as well.
Lets close this form and select the first line and click on cards. Here we have replenish the items,
click on Replenish Tab, so that requisition interface table is populated.
Now we can view the Supply status has changed to Empty
Now switch the responsibility to purchasing and Run the Requisition Import Program
View>Request>Submit a New Request
Now we can check the new requisition created
Purchasing>Requisitions>Requisition Summary
Kanbans serve many purposes. They act as communication devices from the point of use to the
previous operation and as visual communication tools. They act as purchase orders for our
suppliers and work orders for the production departments, thereby eliminating much of the
paperwork that would otherwise be required. In addition, kanbans reinforce other
manufacturing objectives such as increasing responsibility of the machine operator and allowing
for proactive action on quality defects. However, kanbans should not be used when lot
production or safety stock is required because the kanban system will not account for these
requirements.