Excess Kanban

What’s an Excess Kanban

Excess Kanban is a kanban card plus release or set full by an user for:

• Re-order a kanban card plus to fill an increase in the market demand or forecasting an increase.
• Add a full kanban card to correct a supply or a production error in the number of full kanban cards.

Excess Kanban do not modify kanban loop sizing, but increase temporarily total number of kanban cards of that kanban loop. As user release a kanban card, this wouldn’t be replenished to the supplier.

Create a new Excess Kanban

Procedure:

1. Get in Kanban Board and select or filter the kanban loop to increase temporarily.
2. Click on the heading.
3. In the new window, click Add excess kanban cards.

4. In the new screen, choose:

   • Number of excess kanban cards to create: number of surplus kanban cards added in the kanban board.
   • Card status: kanban card status after the creation:
     • Released: to directly order excess kanban to the supplier.
     • Empty: not yet an order to the supplier, or it’s necessary to wait the order from another department.
     • In process: already ordered and confirmed by the supplier
     • Full: the order is just arrived, or supplier has delivered a kanban card plus that you want do identify.
   • Card reference: for example, serial number or order number, shown in the kanban card after the creation.

5. To confirm, click Save.

Create an excess kanban in Home page

In order to create a new excess kanban by homepage, add the widget Add excess kanban cards in your home.

Procedure:

1. Scan in the white box the barcode of a card that belongs to the loop, to which add the new excess kanban.

2. In the new screen, choose:

   • Number of excess kanban cards to create: number of surplus kanban cards added in the kanban board.
   • Card status: kanban card status after the creation:
     • Released: to directly order excess kanban to the supplier.
     • Empty: not yet an order to the supplier, or it’s necessary to wait the order from another department.
     • In process: already ordered and confirmed by the supplier
     • Full: the order is just arrived, or supplier has delivered a kanban card plus that you want do identify.
   • Card reference: for example, serial number or order number, shown in the kanban card after the creation.

3. To confirm, click Save.