Hi All,
Any ideas on why MRP won’t create a job for a kanban part? I’ve setup the Part correctly in Part Maintenance with PartWhse being Kanban Warehouse and Primary Bin being set. It also has min/max qtys.
The warehouse doesn’t show up in Kanban Warehouse dashboard…
What am I doing wrong?
MRP doesn’t make Kanban parts. Kanban jobs are done with the KanBan receipt screen. When you do the receipt, it back flushes the material and labor. The whole point behind Kanban is to not need scheduling. You make things as you need them.
Is there anyway to automate this?
Also the warehouse not appearing… Any ideas?
I don’t understand what you are trying to automate. You put in the part number for what you made, how many you made, and what bin you put them in. You need all of that, so there’s not much left to automate.
And I’m not sure what dashboard you are talking about. What’s the menu name exactly?
I’m sorry I am misleading you.
Will MRP look at the Min/Max quantities and raise a job to make more based on those? The ideas is to get MRP to create jobs for production to make more of that item based on stock levels.
I understand the Kanban Receipts element now. Thank you for that.
The menu ID of the dashboard is: IMGO3036 and I apologise it’s called “Kanban Monitor” it displays our other warehouses but not this one.
No, that’s not what Kanban jobs are for. If you just want MRP to plan jobs for you, go to the inventory section on the part plant tab and set the min/max on hand values, and MRP will plan jobs to keep your stock at those levels.
Kanban has to be setup at either the warehouse or the bin level, not both. Once done it will appear in the related Kanban monitor.
@aarong and @pilio.lee - You should read each others’ posts lol. I think this thread is supporting what I said on the other one (whew!).
I found this looking for something else but I think I can answer both of your questions:
It will create a job but it needs to have actual demand for the part as seen by MRP. Not just the Kanban part settings. MRP doesn’t care about the Kanban min/max/safety thresholds. And as I’ve seen in other threads, you will want to put in a BPM to prevent someone from firming up any of the MRP generated jobs. (If the intent is truly to use Kanban Receipt to put them on hand). If it’s not creating jobs for you, it’s not because it’s a Kanban part. Check your usual suspects, supply vs. demand, Process MRP checkbox, any special settings your company uses for planning, cutoff dates, etc. Basically, if it shows up in Time Phase with demand, it should generate a job.
There are two Kanban monitors. Kanban Monitor and Kanban Bin Monitor. It’s not clear but the Kanban monitor only shows you Kanban parts that are setup at the Warehouse level. If you set up Kanban at the bin level, you need to use Kanban Bin Monitor (which is how your example is setup).
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