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At ten minutes per fax, someone is spending 3.5 hours per day inadministration time. That inefficiency results in less time toutilize more suppliers or improve the relationships withexisting suppliers. Furthermore, even if 99% of those faxes are trouble freeprocurement signals, four faxes per month are going to beproblematic and dilute the entire rationale for a leanmanufacturing operation. Suppliers claim they did not receivethe fax kanban; suppliers cannot make the shipment daterequested and expedited shipping fees are incurred, or worse,there will be a stockout which will negatively impact customerservice levels. According to Matthew Marotta of Datacraft Solutions, "Processimprovements with existing suppliers will further reduce leadtimes and inventory levels and bring more suppliers onto thesystem." Kanbans are now guaranteed never to be sent to supplier unlessthere is a valid blanket purchase order. Datacraft Solutions(www.datacraftsolutions.com), the leader in e-kanban, found thatfor every given kanban release it is important to make surethat: an open purchase order still exists, and that there wasenough remaining balance on the purchase order to cover thecurrent purchase. Blanket Purchase Orders are a "best practice" in the well-oiledkanban process. They minimize the flow of information betweenbuyers and their suppliers, while maintaining the terms,conditions and integrity of the business relationship betweenthe two parties. The new Best Practice was "integrating theelectronic kanban system" with a manufacturers currentpurchasing system. Datacraft Solutions www.datacraftsolutions.com Matthew Marotta800-819-5326 |
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