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- SCM with Kanban Replenishment
- Who it's for
- Distribution teams
Distribution teams
Distribution teams often face repeated customer demand for stocked products. An empty pick bin creates a need to request replenishment while an order's promised date remains visible. SCM with Kanban Replenishment gives the coordinator an order, its lines and a signal that can be followed on the status board.
How SCM with Kanban Replenishment is set up for you
Customer demand
The customer order keeps account, owner and promised date together so staff know which commitment a pull card serves.
Bin request
The signal records the bin code, requested units and organization before it is submitted for review.
Physical follow-up
Dated fulfillment events let the team compare actual progress with ordered and shipped units.
Exception handling
Operation receipts show failed attempts and their reasons so a repeated submission can be investigated against its key.
Distribution teams often face repeated customer demand for stocked products. An empty pick bin creates a need to request replenishment while an order's promised date remains visible. SCM with Kanban Replenishment gives the coordinator an order, its lines and a signal that can be followed on the status board.
A distributor with recurring replenishment can start with one product family and one organization. Import active products and customer accounts, then choose a small group of representative orders. Include an order with partial shipment and an empty bin. That case tests quantity language, signal submission, review and event reconciliation in one operating cycle.
Agree how bin codes map to physical locations and which staff own the daily queue. Check that each order's customer and organization are correct. Have the coordinator submit a draft signal, then compare the board state and operation receipt. Ask the reviewer to explain the submitted scope using the order line and current revision. An Auditor should be able to trace the outcome through linked records.
As the team expands, keep provider payment confirmation and warehouse event sources mapped to their own identifiers. A signal submission tells the team a request exists; dated fulfillment evidence tells it what physically happened.
Features to start with
Roles on the team
- Order Coordinator
- Prepare assigned operational records and execute eligible reviewed replenishment actions.
- Auditor
- Read authorized evidence and reports. Read only.
- Order Reviewer
- Review eligible revisions independently and reconcile operational evidence. Read only.
- App Administrator
- Maintain organization configuration and membership. No approval or execution authority.
Set up SCM with Kanban Replenishment your way.
Start free, then use Proto to change fields, steps and approvals before your team goes live.