KANBAN STOCK TRANSFER

[former_member1042151]

Hello All,

We use Kanban Stock Transfer with Control Cycle 0004. The Setting selected in Control Cycle is "Direct Stock Posting".

E.g. Consider STor Loc A and STor Loc B

The Supply Area is created for Storage Loc A. There is no supply area of stor Loc B.

When The status of the Kanban is Set to "To Empty" the Replenishment is triggered.

The Requirement is when we Set the Status of Kanban to "wait" then the replenishment should happen.

Is there any way we could achieve it.

[sap_pp13]

Gaurav,

   Try the Independent supply source option which you can find under the flow control tab of your control cycle.

  In this case when demand source sets the kanban empty, observe what happens to the kanban. Does that still stay empty or some thing else?

There is an explanation for the same in the SAP help site and you can go through further details.

[former_member1042151]

Hi Srini,

Thanks for your reply.

The Independent supply source is valid when we define both the locaton as Kanban Supply area.

In that scenario two Kanban's are maintained one by demand source and other by supply source.

In our scenario only one location is defined as Kanban means Supply area is defined for only one storage location.

So cycle at this point of Time works :

Step 1 : Demand source empties the Kanban ( Transfer Order is generated and Material Document gets posted )

Step 2 : The Supply source scans the kanban print and changes the status in Wait or In transit for the same kanban

Step 3: When Demand Source gets the stocks they again scan the kanban print and status is changed to Full.

So we are just using one kanban.

[sap_pp13]

Gaurav, I do not think that we need to tie up the supply area relevancy with independent supply source option.

    When we say Supply area it is specific only to production (Name given is 'Production' Supply Areas). Supply areas exist to streamline the material flow in production and that is the one and only purpose.

The location referenced in your CC has the PSA in the background and is triggering the request and from your WM-managed location (which is the supply source) you are fulfilling the request. In this case the WM-managed location alone is relevant and the supply area is not of any significance to the best of my understanding.

     In the standard when the demand source triggers the request, because of direct reservation even when the status is EMPTY the material withdrawal is complete. Making it FULL is just a formality action for the supply source and this is designed to say that the despatch of components is complete/confirmed. Demand source owns the complete process of material withdrawal.

   With the Ind.supply source option the focus of ownership shifts to the supply source. When demand source sets the kanban empty, because of the setting in CC, supply source ensures that the status remains in WAIT and during the actual delivery the supply source replenishes it to FULL along with the material posting.

So the inference is your expectation of maintaining the WAIT status is also fulfilled along with actual replenishment controlled by supply source/WM-managed storage location.

  Not clear on the usage of 1 kanban though as your CC will not even allow you to key in any value lesser than 2.

[Former Member]

Hi Gaurav,

are you using standard replenishment strategy as blank. Then change it to 1,2 or 3. It should work with status wait. But limitation might be only 2 bins at a time.

thanks

rijil