Hansgrohe uses Kanbans with RFID chips

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1. Arun Rao
   August 1, 2012 @ 10:59 am

   Comment on my Facebook page:

   Great to see this idea finally coming together. We had implemented exactly this at a TX location back in 2003 but it didn’t go beyond the pilot phase because of hardware read accuracy issues… (even 98% accuracy would mean a 2% miss and inventory problems)

   Thanks for sharing.

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2. Tobias Hund
   August 8, 2012 @ 9:36 am

   From Hansgrohe:

   Among the Kanban processes we distinguish between “Supplier Kanbans,” “Finished Goods Kanbans, ” and “Internal Move Kanbans”.

   What we show is an electronic implementation of the replenishment logic in the form of orders through Supplier Kanbans. We go one step further, in that these orders / purchase orders are visible directly in our SAP SNC (Supplier Network Collaboration) for the supplier for further processing. This is for order confirmations and order notices. Here we have a standard for all our orders regardless of whether they are by Kanban or direct order.

   Regarding the Kanbans for production orders we consciously not attempted this.
   The loop, however, ensures that we have no major limitations. But you are correct that one could of course go further in the process.

   The RFID enabled kanban process at that time was our entry into RFID technology.
   But we now have other RFID processes in “Handling Unit Management,” in conjunction with SAP EWM. Currently we are working on another very large RFID scenario, which is not yet published in the press, but we have already taken active steps.

   About the rather slow development of RFID, I agree with you. I suspect that in conjunction with RFID and NFC Mobility (electronic payment systems), it will take up some speed..

   Best Regards.

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