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This may be a question with an obvious answer. I am creating a Kanban circuit (floor stock location) with replenishment from inventory location (main warehouse).

The scenario is that the Kanban is the floor stock, and parts are always backflushed from the Kanban location (backflush from floor stock locations). The Kanban is replenished from the main warehouse when floor stock drops below a level (Kanban order point). Transport tasks are generated correctly to replenish the Kanban but need to ensure that the main warehouse always has sufficient stock on-hand to top up the Kanban.

If the Inventory Part has a safety stock, is the qty in the Kanban taken into account when MRP checks if parts have dropped below the safety stock?

And similarly, if the inventory part was planning method B with an order point, would the Kanban qty be taken into account when order proposals job checks if stock has dropped below the order point?

I would assume that the Kanban qty is NOT taken into account but wondered if anyone has tested this scenario.

Thanks!

@Manxmano I haven’t tested the scenario you’asking for, but I’m throwing an idea on what to do to make sure that MRP or Order Point Planning will not consider the qty in the shopfloor (kanban).

You may wanna define a Part Availability Control as Not Nettable and assign it to the Shop Floor locations. This way you can be sure that MRP and Oredr Point will only consider the qty available in the Main WH (Picking locations). 

 

Hi Marcel, that's interesting and I will test it.

My only concern would be that making it non-nettable might stop the Backflush from seeing the qty that's physically in the Kanban location and erroring when the Backflush fires.

@Manxmano no need to worry about the Backflush transaction. Setting the qty on the location as Not Nettable will have no impact in consuming it on the Shop Order.

Unfortunately, as I expected I got the error message on shop order backflush “No available location. Issuing could not be done for the part...”
It would probably work if it was reserve and backflush as the Kanban location shows up for manual reservation. But not for automatic backflush.

@Manxmano On the Availability Control you used, what is the setting for Part Order Issue Control? If set to ‘Order Issue’ your material should backflush from the floor stock location.

It was set to Order Issue Matt.

Everything was allowed except for the Part Supply Control, which was set to Not Nettable.

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