Kanban Processing

The Kanban Board is the key transaction within Kanban processing.

Within the Kanban Board you can view the current status of all the
Kanban containers, all of the materials that are within the Kanban
area, the quantities of each material that is/should be available
within each Kanban container.

Furthermore, the Kanban Board also allows the user to start and
finish the Kanban process.

To access the Kanban Board use transaction PK13N

Note transaction PK13 can also be used.

You can view the Kanban Board by Supply Area and by Material. However,
you can also view the entire Kanban area for a particular Plant.

To view all the Kanbans for a plant, enter the Plant number as shown and
then click on to advance to the new screen.
You will now see a list of all the materials, their supply area, their Kanban
container quantities and a graphical representation of the Kanban
containers.

The colour of the Kanban container indicates its current status:

GREEN means the container is currently FULL

RED means that the container is currently EMPTY

PURPLE means that the container has not yet been replenished (ie it may
be
If you double click on a container you can see additional information on the
container including:

The Kanban ID Number

The Material it contains

The Container Quantity

Its current status

When it was last changed (date and time)

If a container if found to be Empty and therefore needs to be replenished, then
within PK13N (single) click on the container to highlight it and click on

A message will now appear at the bottom of the screen telling you that the
Kanban has been processed and the container will now turn RED to indicate it is
Empty.

In the background the system will now generate a Transfer Order to pick the
Kanban material from the Warehouse.
The TO for Kanban will automatically be printed.

Note that in the future it will be possible to transact this TO on the RF

device.

The user will now use this print out to go and physically pick the Kanban
items from the warehouse and then take them to the Kanban area.
The creation of the TO can be seen within the WM Stock Overview LS26.

Here you can see that we are looking to pick 6 pieces from the Small
Parts Storage type and then put them away inot the Kanban Interface
(storage type 610).

When the TO is confirmed, this will remove the stock from the Warehouse
and post the stock into the KANB storage location.
When the goods have been physically picked and the Kanban container
has been replenished, the user will either confirm the TO (using LT12) or
can set the status of the container back to Full via the Kanban Board
(PK13N as shown here).

Select the relevant container by (single) clicking on it and press

The container will now turn GREEN indicating it is now Full. This will
confirm the open TO and will move the goods from the Warehouse to the
KANB storage location. The items will now be available for picking from
the Kanban area.