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Set up items as consumables for use with Kanban cards?

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Hi,

We're using Ax 2012.

I'm trying to set up the Lean Manufacturing at our factory, as these techniques were used very succesfully in the past (prior to the introduction of Ax).

Here's my question: what's the best way to set up products like screws, small strands of electric wire, stickers, ...? (Currently, every single screw is tracked, which gives way too much administration.)

I want to have those items circulating through the factory, with Kanban cards. I've succesfully set up the kanban rules for a transfer kanban board, but how can I register the consumption of these materials, upon reporting empty of the kanban card, instead of by consumption on a production BOM?

Do these items need to be set up as consumables? How, where, ...?

Any tips, pointers in the right direction, ... any help is most appreciated!

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    Fredrik Sætre Profile Picture
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    Normally you would have them as a part of the BOM to have some type of consumption. However it is sometimes a kanban is empty and often before the right quantity is completely consumed... You can in the kanban form set it to scan the kanban empty. Is it that you're looking for?

  • Adriaan Van Nuffel Profile Picture
    391 on at

    Hi Fredrik, thanks for your answer.

    Yes, in a way that's what I'm looking for. I want the consumption of on-hand material be booked by the kanbans, rather than by the production BOM. 

    Because often in BOMs there are small errors (wrong lengths of wire, wrong number of screws, ...), and also some of this material gets consumed in a different way: sometimes some material may fall to the floor, or be used in a different job. This gives small variations.

    For example, let's say that screws are circulating in a kanban with 100 pieces, and I need two screws per produced lamp. But the BOM of this particular lamp is incorrect, and says only 1 screw is needed.

    If we make a production of 50 lamps, then there are 50 screws consumed from the on-hand material. However, in reality I have used 100 screws and my on-hand material is not correct anymore. Rather than having to keep track of these differences and correcting them with counting journals, I just want 100 screw to be booked from on-hand material, when the kanban circulating card is scanned "empty" in the kanban transfer board.

    After all, I don't really care about how many screws, stickers, ... are consumed, but I do want to show them in the BOM of my lamp, and I also want to use them in the cost calculation of my products BOM.

  • Adriaan Van Nuffel Profile Picture
    391 on at

    Update: I changed the way I look at this problem, I now think I can do the consumption of the small consumables with standard production orders and then do a regular stock count.

    I also found this article which is related.

    https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/axmfg/2015/10/04/recommended-settings-for-materials-that-acts-as-consumables-in-production/

    But still I'm wondering what is the best way to handle the stock of "consumables" in Ax.

    Any thoughts?

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