Kanban Inventory Management System & Control

Kanban Inventory Management System and Production Control

Kanban refers to a manufacturing process developed by Japanese manufacturers to manage production and inventory. At Moseys, we have adopted this Kanban process for our customers to provide a cost reduction strategy.

What is the Kanban Inventory Management System?

Lean and efficient manufacturing protocols are essential for both productivity and profitability, and the Kanban inventory control system provides an optimal and responsive solution.

Advantages of Kanban Management System over the traditional push system

Provides quick and precise information
Reduces costs associated with the transfer of information
Provides quick response to changes
Limits over-capacity in processes
Avoids overproduction
Minimizes waste
Maintains control
Delegates responsibility to line workers
Ensures inventory aligns with demand

Kanban inventory control offers the following real-time operational benefits

Lower warehousing costs. Reducing the volume of inventory allows you to streamline your storage costs by eliminating space you don’t need. Additionally, Kanban inventory management helps reduce wasteful spending. Incorrect purchasing forecasts can lead to over-purchasing.
Identify consumer habits. If you are consistently repurchasing and replenishing certain items for particular processes, you can use that information to inform marketing or outreach.
Keep track of productivity. Kanban inventory control helps management easily identify bottlenecks in production and make process adjustments.

The Kanban inventory tracking system is a philosophy that gives organizations the tools necessary to maintain only essential stock for all manufacturing and distribution processes. The Kanban system is designed to improve resource allocation and management by minimizing the volume of materials kept in inventory. This is achieved by identifying and eliminating inefficiencies in production.

Kanban methodology involves maintaining continual product flow across manufacturing processes. Large volumes of unnecessary materials flowing through production cycles interrupt the continuous stream of action, causing overarching process disruptions. Moreover, holding excess inventory increases overall supply and storage costs.

The objective of the Kanban inventory management system is to effectively eliminate supply usage forecasting in manufacturing processes. The system allows for constant procedural improvements even while maintaining the highest levels of productivity.

There are numerous strategies for implementing the Kanban system within an organization. The original technique is the integration of visual signals to alert employees on the production floor when a particular item is running low. This can be done in the form of brightly colored reorder inventory cards and storage bins which delineate whether items need to be replenished or repurchased.

However, electronic Kanban – or e-Kanban – is becoming ubiquitous, particularly in large organizations. This largely involves scanning all parts during different manufacturing stages to keep track of supplies. This process triggers automatic purchases of supplies once a threshold is reached, while supplying real-time inventory management.

Moseys is dedicated to helping organizations achieve their operational and production objectives. By employing the Kanban inventory management system, we empower our clients with the strategies necessary for meeting parts and component needs while optimizing their processes.

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