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What is KANBAN
KANBAN is a process by which material can be replenished as per the requirement. KANBAN
is a Japanese technology for material replenishment. KAN- means card and BAN means signal.
Hence understanding is card which will give the signal for replenishment stock.
KANBAN will have plastic bins and cards. The card will hold the material no, storage location,
Bar code, material qty etc and will be kept on the bin once the bin is full. Once the bin is empty,
then the card will be on the board. Like that multiple card will be there for a single material with
proper serial no.
Master Data
1. Control cycle
2. Supply area
Step’s approach
1. First of all supply area will be created with storage location and responsible person.
2. T code PK05. Put the plant and create new entry.
3. Put storage location and responsible person and save the data.
4. Go to MMSC
5. Exclude the storage location from planning(as this is not required to plan through MRP).
We can exclude the storage location from customizing also. In this case all the material in
the storage location will be excluded for planning.
6. Now the control cycle has to be created.
7. T code PK01
8. Put material, plant, supply area and select classic KANBAN.
13. Total stock is 63 and is excluded from MRP. This stock will be consumed in subsequent
stage(in next stage)
14. Now check the status of the KANBAN bin. T code PK13N
15. Here three bins are full and two bins are in Wait status. Click to see the legends.
21. One KANBAN processed and Bin became RED. This means Bin is empty.
22. Now check MD04. One Production order created (as empty means one proposal will be
created).
23. Make another Bin empty is same process and see MD04 screen.
24. Release both the order. The order type of KANBAN is PP05.
25. Double click on the Bin and you can see the details with order created.