Kanban Kitting

You can use ION to setup a kanban kitting system where you pre-assemble kits into a container in inventory, send it to the production line to be installed, and then send the container back to inventory to pre-assemble the same kit again. This process flow (as shown below) can be helpful for higher volume workflows where the parts required do not change.

As the rate of installations increases, you can increase the inventory per kit until you reach container limitations. At that point, add more kits to this flow. To minimize production downtime, we recommend trying to maintain a minimum of 2 kits at the lineside location where there is always one kit available for consumption for Technicians while the depleted kit is being re-filled.

To streamline this workflow, ION makes it easy to de-kit all the inventory off a part kit that gets re-used multiple times. Once all the inventory from a kit has been installed and it's time to send the kit back to inventory, have the user click the "Remove all Inventory" button on the Kit page. This will de-kit all the inventory attached to the kit. Then set the status of the kit to Requested as seen in the flow diagram above, and send it back to the warehouse to be refilled.