KanbanBOX for Sales and Distribution
Simplify your supply process and increase the value of your service
Kanban-based sales service is a popular model among industrial suppliers because of its ability to make the relationship with customers and distributors leaner, more collaborative, and based on the actual consumption of materials.
KanbanBOX amplifies these advantages, allowing you to offer a more advanced, reliable, and transparent supply service.
This is made possible by the digitalization of the kanban sales system, which automates the creation and transmission of replenishment orders, reduces inventory across the supply chain, and helps shorten delivery lead times. At the same time, KanbanBOX allows you to define shared operating rules with customers, integrate the flow with the company ERP, and continuously monitor the status of supplies.
The result is a truly pull-based supply service, where kanban-based sales become a practical tool to improve collaboration with customers, reduce waste, and respond quickly to changes in demand.
Customer Integration
Connect your customers to KanbanBOX. Thanks to a dedicated free license, they can share real-time consumption data with you and view the status of requests and supplies.
Automatic Orders
KanbanBOX automatically generates replenishment orders based on the actual consumption of materials and the agreements defined for quantities and service type, eliminating manual activities and unnecessary steps.
Lead Time Reduction
Orders are transmitted in real time, without the need to collect empty containers or physical cards. This reduces production release times and, consequently, the overall lead time.
Much More Than an Integrated Logistics Software
KanbanBOX is much more than an integrated logistics software because it does not simply manage material movements. It also automates the creation of replenishment orders, transforming material management into an automatic, visual, and synchronized process.
- Automatic Creation and Transmission of Replenishment Orders in Real Time
To signal the need for replenishment, the customer simply scans the barcode on the empty container using a handheld scanner or mobile device. The scan automatically activates KanbanBOX, which creates and transmits the replenishment order to the supplier in real time. This ensures that the replenishment signal is received immediately, allowing the supplier to prepare the shipment without delays and react quickly to the request. - Standardized Orders: Kanban and Closed Orders
KanbanBOX enables structured management of both recurring kanban orders and traditional closed orders. All operational parameters (quantities, lot sizes, etc.) are defined from the beginning, creating a standardized process that reduces ambiguity, manual activities, and continuous exchanges of emails or phone calls. In case of anomalies or operational notes, comments can be added directly in the platform and are notified to the counterpart in real time. - Shared Visibility and Full Traceability of Inventory and Orders
The KanbanBOX digital board makes the status of orders, inventory, and replenishment requests visible to all involved parties, making it easy to monitor the material flow. All information, status updates of materials and orders, and communications remain stored in the platform, ensuring full traceability of operations.
Kanban-Based Sales Service: Many Benefits for Your Customers
Adopting KanbanBOX to manage supply activities not only strengthens transparency and cooperation with your customers but also allows you to offer a competitive service with significant benefits for them, including:
- Elimination of manual reordering activities: orders are automatically generated based on actual consumption.
- Greater transparency and operational efficiency: the platform centralizes all information, improving visibility and collaboration with the supplier while reducing emails, phone calls, and daily checks related to order transmission.
- Faster, more stable, and traceable supply times: supplier visibility of inventory levels, standardized quantities, and pre-agreed lead times optimize the process.
- Reduced inventory without stockouts: thanks to real-time transmission of replenishment signals, lead times are shortened and the need to maintain high inventory levels is reduced.
One Integrated Tool for Optimal Operations
KanbanBOX improves the supply service provided to customers while also generating significant benefits for suppliers. In particular, it allows you to:
- Reduce order management costs and working capital while increasing internal efficiency: orders are generated automatically based on actual material consumption, reducing manual workload and optimizing internal inventory levels.
- Shorten lead times and reduce urgencies and unexpected issues: real-time order transmission reduces supply times and speeds up deliveries, limiting disruptions and urgent requests.
- Gain full visibility on consumption and order status: suppliers can monitor customer consumption levels in real time, even through the mobile app, enabling better planning of replenishment activities and allowing them to share order status up to delivery.
- Access performance data such as consumption trends and delivery punctuality, helping demonstrate compliance with service level agreements (SLA), also through integration with Business Intelligence tools (e.g., Power BI).
Additionally, by integrating KanbanBOX with the company ERP, accounting processes are also optimized, such as the automatic entry of sales orders and outbound materials.
Selling with kanban
KanbanBOX digitalizes the kanban sales service through the adoption of an electronic kanban system (sales e-kanban).
But what exactly is this system and how does it work?
Learn more on this page.
Closed Order Management
KanbanBOX allows you to manage supply services not only for kanban orders but also for closed orders, integrating all sales flows into a single system while maintaining traceability, visibility, and control over every type of order.
KanbanBOX for Closed OrdersInternal Logistics
KanbanBOX goes beyond sales: its use also extends to production, purchasing, and internal logistics. Learn more about the features dedicated to internal material handling, such as worklists and milk runs, on this page.
Internal Logistics ManagementFrom Theory to Practice: The Sacchi Elettroforniture Example
Among the companies that have digitalized their supply chain by offering a kanban-based sales service through KanbanBOX is Sacchi Elettroforniture, the largest distributor of electrical and renewable energy materials in Northern Italy.
Thanks to KanbanBOX, the company can offer a leaner, more traceable, and more collaborative kanban sales service, improving communication and transparency with customers and enhancing the quality of the service provided.
Not Only Sales: KanbanBOX for Kanban-Based Distribution
The same advantages obtained with kanban-based sales can also be applied to internal distribution between different company branches, remote warehouses, or distribution centers, even when located in different regions, countries, or continents.
With KanbanBOX, it is possible to manage material replenishment between the various nodes of the logistics network based on actual consumption, automating replenishment requests and making the distribution flow simpler and synchronized.
This approach optimizes inventory management across the entire company network, reduces excess inventory and stockouts, and provides full visibility on consumption and replenishment needs at every point in the distribution system.
Do you want to digitalize and optimize your sales or distribution system?
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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