Whitepaper "Lean manufacturing - Capable to promise and Kanban job scheduling" for CU6 now available for download

With Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012, two new concepts were introduced for lean manufacturing:

• Event kanbans, which support build-to-order and assemble-to-order scenarios, and also – in combination with the product configurator – configure-to-order scenarios.
• Capable to promise (CTP), a new delivery date control method that can be used to calculate the expected delivery date at the time of order entry, based on an update of the dynamic master plan.

In the recently released cumulative update 6 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 these concepts have now been combined to work together.

The white paper starts by explaining the fundamental mechanics of kanban job scheduling for simple and complex production flow configurations. It then introduces the concept of capable to promise in general (lean and non lean applications), and explains how CTP interacts with planned and actual kanban jobs. Finally, it explains how CTP can be combined with event kanbans, and what changes are introduced in cumulative update 6 for Microsoft Dynamics AX 2012 R2 to provide better support for build-to-order and assemble-to-order scenarios with CTP.

You can download the whitepaper from these locations (requires registered Microsoft account):

Download URL - Customersource - Partnersource

Comments

• Anonymous
  July 03, 2013
  Great reading, I am looking forward to exploring the possibilities and optimisations that this enhancement can bring to my clients.
• Anonymous
  August 28, 2013
  Is the a back port available for clients on AX2012 feature pack CU2?
• Anonymous
  August 28, 2013
  Hi Ryan,many of the issues in Kanban job scheduling have also been shipped in CU5. However, the core functionality that combines CTP with event Kanban's is only implemented for R2 CU6.I'm not saying that it is impossible to backport, but my judgment would be that it is better to spend the time to migrate to CU6 instead, if that combination is a key business process for the company.Hope that helps, if you want to discuss this in more detail please reach out to me per mail./Conrad
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• Anonymous
  May 04, 2014
  Faheem,you have clearly stated the limitations fo options 1 and 2. On option 3, unless you make sure that the updates of the kanban lines and related transactions are done before the positing of the transactions, this approach should work. You will then see dedicated variances for the varying quantities reported when running backflush costing.On reporting time, there is not consideration of actual time reporting so far in the lean model. Lean does not allow a dedication operations labor reporting, and a lean activity should not be used like an operation in a production flow, as this leads to way too much reporting activities. If any, you should make comparison on total resources allocated to a work cell against the produced finished goods.Hope this helps./Conrad
• Anonymous
  May 12, 2014
  Hi Conrad,Thank you for your suggestions and inputs which has definitely helped us in terms finalizing a few things relating to Variance calculation in Lean AX 2012.I would also like clarify one point regarding the integration of Quality checks in Lean manufacturing. So far we have not found any method of generating Quality order/Quarantine orders from Kanban jobs as is the case with Production orders in standard AX. We know that it can be done manually but then it is not ideal as the link to the Kanban job is not possible. Is there any other way of generating Quality orders from the Kanban job upon registration of the FG item? If not then what could be the best possible method of integrating quality checks in Lean and also inventory blocking upon registration of an FG item in a Kanban job? Also, is there any plan of integrating quality checks in any of the future releases?And do you know of any implementation of Lean AX 2012 where quality checks has been integrated with Kanban jobs either through a customization or using a standard AX feature?Thanks and regardsFaheem Khan