Let’s start with the example from a nature which is guiding animals like little squirrel to collect of nuts to survive over the hibernation period.

The same we do as humans, rationally keeping safeties for centuries, at ours daily life.

Terms

• limited number of items
• zero costs
• no training or consulting needed

A few details from history

After the 2nd World War when the economy and industry was expanding and the powerful tool KAN-BAN (card-signal) was released. Kanban was developed by Taiichi Ohno in the Japanese Toyota Motor Corporation in 1947. Kanban is advanced visual management driven by consumption and placing the order as Kanban card signal.

看板 = KAN-BAN was born!

Maybe you are now wondering, if it is still valuable after 70 years? The bright future of Kanban is just starting in todays congested global market. For the start I have collected some awesome reasons in the web page “IDEAS”.

Terms

1. 100% quality parts
2. driven by consumption only
3. fixed relation customer & supplier with locations
4. fixed product, quantity, packaging type, identification type
5. fixed lead times and delivery frequency
6. správná kalkulace kanbanových hladin
7. responsibilities and way of communication
8. support of skilled consultant or very intensive training

• Kanban is able to manage hundreds of items and thousands of kanban cards
• Only highly repetitive items
• Difficult to keep user discipline in manual kanban
• Even the sustainability of the exact number of cards in circulation against the actual stock (many times the cards have been taken away in their self-pockets)
• Kanban requires minimal investment to set up, introduce a qualified team for daily management
• Minimum knowledge of the tensile principle for proper functioning is necessary
• E-kanban modules can automate transaction entry into business systems

The kanban cards are necessary for visual processes control where we manage many items (over 100) or many locations. Our kanban card can carry lot of useful information like the item, the kanban flow details and item drawing.

The manual kanban is controlled by kanban card and the physical handover from the point of consumption to the place of refillment (warehouse, production line). Card are usually collected in kanban mailboxes and picked up at regular intervals by responsible person. These consumed cards are placed on Kanban Board to be built and replenished. Kanban table mirrors the number of kanban cards set in the loop circulation. When all the cards are on the kanban board, it means that my customer has zero availability and probably stopped his production.

The heart of the e-kanban system is on-line kanban board, which is giving priorities on the customer item urgencies to all internal and external users. You are always able to synchronize your decisions in real time and support your customer’s actual needs. IKS e-kanban register records of each transaction in seconds, and then you can easily analyse and support continuous improvement. (this traceability is very valuable for non-quality, contaminated material identification and minimalised sorting time). The IKS visual environment is very easy to interface with ERP systems through a modifiable import / export module, which can eliminate most of administration and papers.

Terms

• Standard environment for high-running, low-running and project parts or services
• 100% visual management of unlimited items and transactions
• 100% online prioritizing, execution and administration of e-Kanban system
• Accurate and easy tracking of transactions, user discipline, and revisions of changes
• 100% paperless when integrated into the ERP system
• A small investment to set up and manage

IKS CLOUD is a kanban environment that erases all boundaries. There are no place limitations where you are on the planet connected on internet. Whether your process is simple or complicated, if the execution takes only a few seconds or several months. All users see the real-time situation in their time zone. A wider offer of visual functionalities in IKS kanban allows holistic / wholeness Logistics Management with detailed analyses to run daily continuous improvement of the performance of all its parties. IKS is very easy to connect across internal and external ERP systems, minimizing all-round administrative and paperwork delays. Another feature of the IKS e-kanban intercompany structure of the IKS, which supports the improvement of the service in the fulfilment of intercompany deliveries. IKS follows the IT trends of the globalised, which requires maximum centralization of IT management, but also allows high flexibility to kanban users to design their process flow. Another uniqueness of IKS e-kanban CLOUD is the adoption of external Kanban cards and provides the ability to scan and analyse them as own IKS standard kanban ID. Every day we are inspired by your operations requirements!

Terms

• 100% visual management of unlimited production sites, customers, suppliers, consignments, forwarders and logistic partners
• 100% online GLOBAL prioritizing, execution and administration of e-Kanban system
• 100% paperless when integrated into ERP systems, IKS EDI and B2B
• Interconnection of kanban systems
• IKS is continuously innovated