Understanding Kanban Pull Chains

You use the DFM Kanban Pull Chain Master Application (PF31K41) to define a pull chain for material replenishment. A pull chain is the sequence of locations through which a component item will travel, beginning at the final consumption point and ending at the original supply point.

A pull chain is made up of one or more pull sequences. A pull sequence is a supply point and consumption point. You define additional information between these points such as replenishment hours, kanban replenishment type, and kanban unit of measure.

The points are defined as inventory, machine cells, or suppliers. The supply point might be an inventory location or a vendor. You can track inventory transactions at the defined point.

The pull chain is a parent/child structure. Thus, the supply point from the previous sequence in the pull chain will, by default, be the consumption point in the next sequence.

Note: The kanban supply and consumption points defined in JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Demand Flow Manufacturing as pull sequences will be exported to base manufacturing. In base manufacturing, the consumption and supply points that have inventory transactions enabled will be converted to inventory locations. The system performs transactions at each point in a pull chain. However, there should only be transactions from stores to point-of-use resupply (POUR) or RIP and no transactions within the RIP inventory locations.

See Importing Data from JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Base Manufacturing to JD Edwards EnterpriseOne Demand Flow Manufacturing.