Evaluating Supermarkets
Two programs let you view the historical or projected performance of kanban supermarkets in meeting demand without holding excessive inventory:
• Use Historical Buffer Evaluation (17.2.13) to determine how often the supermarket buffer dropped below user-defined warning and critical parameters during a specified number of past days.
• Use Supermarket Workbench (17.2.7) to analyze the potential future ability of the supermarket buffer to meet projected requirements.
Optionally, you can update the supermarket buffer size from either program. The system modifies the Buffer Maximum field in Kanban Master Maintenance (17.1.4) to reflect the changes. See
Supermarket Information.