This chapter covers the following topics:
Oracle Electronic Kanban provides a complete solution for kanban management, a replenishment system supplying parts and inventory in continuous production. Kanban replenishment supports Lean Manufacturing, the elimination of waste or tasks that do not add value in the production process. This includes tasks that affect customer relations, product design, supplier networks, and production floor management.
The Electronic Kanban workbench provides kanban management in tabs on a single page for setup, summary information, execution and transactions, and planning. Electronic Kanban uses the existing Oracle Kanban infrastructure in Oracle Inventory, Oracle Flow Manufacturing, and Oracle Planning. The features of Oracle Electronic Kanban include the following:
Extensive search capabilities, see: Searching for Kanban Cards
Ability to scan and perform kanban cards transactions.
Ability to simulate, plan and replan kanban cards, see: Overview of Kanban Planning
Ability to create temporary kanban cards to handle demand fluctuation during replenishment spikes.
Option to generate additional cards without cancelling existing cards.
Support for both physical and logical kanban replenishment.
Support for multiple suppliers for Source Type of Supplier, and the ability to define the appropriate percentage of sourcing.
Replenishment order consolidation to generate a single document for replenishment of multiple cards in a pull sequence.
Support for custom statuses for kanban cards according your business requirements.
Ability to maintain the number of kanban cards automatically according to planning recommendations and pull sequence setup.
Integration with Oracle iSupplier Portal where your supplier can view relevant data and be able to change the status for that supplier's kanban cards, see: Setting Up E-Business Functions
Configurable notifications and alerts based on the specific business events, see: Seeded Business Events
Ability to create your own code to override default logic through client extensions, see: Custom Kanban Programming Logic