Many customers use QAD Warehousing to support replenishment of inventory to a manufacturing operation or to a kitting process within the warehouse. Many times, required component inventories are stored at the production line or work center. Getting the inventory from warehouse storage to the production inventory location is commonly called line-side replenishment.

When the customer is using work orders, the component inventory is not system issued until the receipt of the end items and a backflush executes. During this process, it is possible to run out of component stock before QAD Warehousing is aware of the inventory requirement.

For these instances, QAD Warehousing lets you generate an inventory replenishment on-demand (manually) using RF Kanban Scan (1.5). Kanban Scan is also available when specific items are not automatically picked by warehouse operators. Kanban Scan is also helpful when an item is used only occasionally during a process, and you do not want to permanently stock inventory in a specific location.