SAP Kanban

Production and material flow control in production with SAP Kanban

The SERKEM solution in detail

With Kanban, the value chain at each manufacturing or production stage in a multi-stage integration chain can be controlled cost-effectively. For this purpose, reverse-linked containers with control cards are used.

At KANBAN, the material is not pushed into production by the higher-level planning (push), but instead it is called up by the manufacturing level used (pull) if necessary.
The material flow is controlled by containers or by KANBAN cards (Kanban Japanese for card).

KANBAN cards serve as means of identification on the goods and have the advantage that only the physical card or the card information in electronic form (eKANBAN) has to be transported as a signal for replenishment in order to initiate the subsequent delivery.

In the event of production fluctuations, the supply of materials is controlled by the volume of transshipment. A faster consumption increases the circulating speed of the containers. The quantity per container is specified.

Due to the direct alignment of production to customer requirements and the simple mechanism for triggering requirements, inventories can be kept low on the customer and supplier side. The planning and control effort for the order processing process is minimized.

SAP Kanban

If SAP is used to support the Kanban process, system and media breaks can be reduced and the replenishment lead time of materials can be reduced by up to 50%. This is achieved by automating and merging the necessary bookings. Scanning the Kanban cards using mobile scanners can significantly reduce manual entries and thus the error rate.

SAP offers different, location-independent, controllable Kanban methods that can be used in different company areas. SERKEM has further optimized and simplified the SAP Kanban processes. This further increases the efficiency and overview in the Kanban chain.

At a glance

Extract from our References

Logo Schleifring

Schleifring und Apparatebau GmbH

  • Electrical engineering and transmission technologies
  • Turnover: 134 Mio. € (2017)
  • Employees: 650 worldwide (2017)

 

Logo ZF

ZF Friedrichshafen AG

  • Automotive industry
  • Turnover: 16,8 Mrd. €
  • Employees 72.600

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