•Lean manufacturing has become leading industrial trend in the past few decades. In order to increase its competitiveness and decrease costs, companies are aiming to keep their inventory levels reduced to a minimum while keeping excellent performance and quality of the production.
•BRiOT’s e-kanban software that is used in warehouse and production floor for stock levels monitoring and stock levels replenishment.
•The main goal is to establish such system which will guarantee optimal stock replenishment of raw material in stores and production lines without any material shortages which could put in danger production continuity. In the same time, due to limited space in Raw material store and production lines, excessive stocking of material is prevented.
•Stores person is able to view and control the material which is needed for current production on different production lines and stock location in stores and production line is indicated with minimum and maximum allowed quantities on the shelf.
•Current stock level for the stores, production lines and colored information about percentage of current stock optimization is also visible from the BRiOT application . If percentage is red, stock level is below minimum. Yellow color indicates that the stock is less than average stock and close to minimum stock. The green color indicates that there is still no need for stock replenishment because current stock level is between average and maximum stock.
•The customized alert are sent to concerned person for material replenishment or over stocking.
•By using BRiOT application Store person can easily take actions for the material which are showing red or yellow marks. A new screen will appear from which store person can put requisition to the vendor for the material replenishment.
Benefits of BRiOT’s E-Kanban System
•Elimination of excess inventory in the supply chain
•Improving material availability
•Improving visibility of orders, shipments and inventory
•Standardizing supply chain processes.
•Improving purchasing and receiving productivity
•Building a demand driven supply chain.
•Low Manpower cost for maintaining the process
