KanbanBOX for Internal Logistics Management
For an efficient, flexible, and synchronized internal supply chain
KanbanBOX is not just an electronic kanban software but a comprehensive tool for managing the pull of materials throughout the entire logistics process, optimizing the movement flows inside the facility.
From picking management to material handling and flow synchronization, KanbanBOX helps make internal logistics leaner, more transparent, and more efficient, based on real-time data and standardized processes.
Thanks to the digitalization of move kanban (or kanban for material handling or internal kanban), the entire flow of materials and information becomes faster, traceable, and integrated, providing shared visibility and enabling automated procedures that eliminate the inefficiencies typical of traditional processes.
The result is an internally connected logistics system, capable of ensuring the continuity of the material flow with a Lean approach.
Visibility and Traceability
The software tracks material handling information, from the initial request to the movement history, ensuring complete transparency and control
Automation and Multi-process
The system automates the management of movement sequences across multiple stages of the production flow, reducing errors and coordinating activities digitally
Flexibility and Real-time Updates
All information regarding movement, such as quantity, suppliers, and delivery locations, can be updated and disseminated to all operators in real-time
Automatic Picking Lists
To allow operators to always have control over the state of internal logistics and know which materials to replenish, with the ability to structure replenishment by department and special requests, KanbanBOX offers the Worklist feature.
A worklist is a grouping of kanban cards automatically organized based on specific criteria and filters.
In particular, it allows you to create dedicated lists to manage priorities and urgencies, helping to manage situations like consumption peaks, special products, or stockouts in an organized manner.
Optimized Handling with Milk-Run
KanbanBOX allows you to optimize the e-kanban of material handling through the Milk-Run feature, based on an organized handling strategy where an operator follows a predefined route to collect materials from various pick-up points and deliver them efficiently to production lines.
The software efficiently manages the picking and delivery order, reducing travel distances and improving the punctuality of replenishing workstations, even when the operator uses carts or logistic trains. In this case, loading and unloading activities are also calculated based on the capacity of these handling vehicles.
Integration with WMS, Automated Warehouses, Autonomous Vehicles, and RFID Systems
For companies looking to take their e-kanban of material handling to the next level, KanbanBOX can be integrated with a range of software and technologies. From traditional ERP systems to WMS (Warehouse Management Systems), automated warehouses, autonomous vehicles (AGVs), and RFID systems.
These technologies further enhance the efficiency of material handling by automating the material flow and making the logistics process increasingly smart and autonomous.
The result is a highly synchronized system where material movement requests are automatically linked to warehouse or transportation management systems.
The Milk Run
Optimize the picking and delivery routes, reducing handling times and improving efficiency. Discover how the milk-run can make logistics smoother and more punctual.
Find out moreRFID Systems
Integrate KanbanBOX with a system capable of tracking each material movement in real-time using RFID technology, reducing errors and oversights.
Learn moreWMS, Automated Warehouses, and AGVs
Integrate KanbanBOX with your current or future warehouse and logistics management systems to automate processes and transform your internal logistics.
Discover moreUse Cases of Companies Already Using KanbanBOX for Material Handling E-Kanban
Many companies have adopted KanbanBOX to optimize internal logistics management.
Here are some examples from our case studies:
- Centro Oscar Lambret, a French hospital, improved the management of medications (materials with expiration dates), ensuring that each patient received the right medicines despite the high daily variability of prescriptions and the mandatory stock limits due to expiration dates.
[Go to the Centro Oscar Lambret case study] - BCS, a company specializing in agricultural machinery production, implemented e-kanban for material handling with KanbanBOX across all three of its Italian plants to move semi-finished products or components through different stages of the production process.
[Go to the BCS case study] - AGCO, a company specializing in agricultural technology, advanced its material handling system by integrating it with an RFID system and implementing an automated vertical warehouse.
[Go to the AGCO case study]
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Case studies
Sacchi | Electrical Supply Distribution
Sacchi uses KanbanBOX to offer its customers a kanban-based sales service, ideal for recurring supplies and supports long-term customer loyalty
Robopac | Packaging machines
With KanbanBOX, Robopac achieved a more integrated, responsive, and digitalized supply chain thanks to the integration with both external suppliers and SAP
BCS | Agricultural Mechanization
BCS moved from push to pull through E-kanban for suppliers, production, and internal flows. They now manage 6000 kanban loops across 3 plants
El.Co. | Industrial Electrical Automation
El.Co. has simplified the maintenance of kanbans with e-kanban, which was previously so onerous that the number of parts managed by kanban had to be limited
Orotig | Welding Industry
Orotig has implemented sequential pull in the company, optimizing multi-process production scheduling and supplier integration with KanbanBOX
Rossi SpA | Gearmotors and Electric Motors
Rossi Spa has digitalized the existing production and move kanban, then integrated it with its own ERP, with Oracle Sequencer and with suppliers
Aptiv | High-tech automotive systems
From the introduction of kanban to the transition to e-kanban. The Lean Improvement journey of the largest manufacturer of electronic interconnection systems for the automotive sector
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