SUPPLIERS KANBAN

Kanban system can be considered as an informative link between two points of the same process; for this reason it can be used to link the plant with its suppliers too.

Thanks to the introduction of a kanban system with the main suppliers, they become the first step of the customer's production cycle. In that way, lean production is extended beyond the customer's single plant.

ACHIEVABLE RESULTS

The extention of the kanban system to the major supplies (in a broader reengineering of the purchasing process) enables to take advantage of numerous improvement opportunities such as:

purchasing lead time reduction
raw materials inventory significant reduction
no-value-added activities elimination (i.e: quality contols, inspections, packing)
increased semplicity of production planning

CRITICAL ISSUES

The start up of a supplier kanban system requires competence and expertise, as it needs to deal with all the aspects of the relationship between customer's company and its suppliers at the same time:

informative systems
production planning and control models and techniques
vendor rating and control systems
new supply contracts

Moreover, we often need to provide personnel education and training, both in the customer's company and in the supplier's one, in order to enable the correct transfer of methodologies and new way of work.

VALUE DELIVERED BY PRAGMATA

PRAGMATA offers to its customers the indispensable expertise for:

evaluating which suppliers are worth to implement a kanban system with
leading and supporting the integration between customer and supplier companies, (even as it concerns informative systems)
designing and installing the kanban flow between the two organizations (the customer's and the supplier's one) to synchronize informative and production streams
giving training and tutorship to both organization's personnel

Various successfull projects enable PRAGMATA to offer customized services, strongly oriented to achieve sustainable results in a little amount of time and reduced costs.