Distribution for Kanban Calculation
Application component: KANBAN
App type: SAP GUI
Description:  The application Distribution for Kanban Calculation enables you to specify which other requirement types are to be taken into account in the kanban calculation in addition to the dependent requirements that are already assigned to a production supply area (PSA). If the material is or will be assigned to more than one PSA, you have to define a quota arrangement of the requirements to the various PSAs.  If you define further requirement settings in this app, details entered under Extended Requirements Selection in the control cycle are ignored. 
Key features:  The application Distribution for Kanban Calculation is subdivided into two views:  Consideration of Further Requirement Types In this area, you specify a combination of material, plant, and storage location and specify additional requirements that are to be taken into account in the kanban calculation for this combination. You can choose the following further requirement types:   Planned independent requirements If you set this indicator, the system also takes the planned independent requirements for the material you have specified into account in the kanban calculation.  In case a planning scenario of LTP (long-term planning) is used in the Kanban Calculation (PK07) app, only the PIRs (planned independent requirements) belonging to this scenario are considered. In case the app is used without planning scenario of LTP, the active PIR versions are considered. In case predictive material and resource planning (pMRP) is used, this option can be used for non-MRP relevant materials. Predictive MRP allows to calculate dependent PIRs for Kanban materials that are non-MRP relevant. Further details can be found here Forecast Delivery Schedules for Materials in a Demand-Driven Environment.   Note Because a planned independent requirement is not specified with reference to a storage location, SAP recommends specifying material and plant and entering * for the storage location. The entry is then valid across storage locations.If you are using MRP areas, the planned independent requirements are assigned to the receiving storage location of the MRP area. In this case, you should specify this receiving storage location.    Customer requirements In case a planning scenario of LTP is used in the Kanban Calculation (PK07) app, only the customer requirements belonging to this scenario are considered. In case the app is used without planning scenario of LTP, the active customer requirements are considered.   Stock transfer requirements These include all releases against stock transport requisitions, stock transport orders, stock transport planned orders, and stock transport scheduling agreement schedule lines. In case a planning scenario of LTP is used in the Kanban Calculation (PK07) app, only the stock transfer requirements belonging to this scenario are considered. In case the app is used without planning scenario of LTP, the active stock transfer requirements are considered.   Unassigned dependent requirements These are dependent requirements that are not assigned to a PSA. This option also enables dependent requirements without a PSA assignment to be taken into account in the kanban calculation in quota-allocated form. You define the quota arrangement in the Distribution of Requirements to PSAs view.     Distribution of Requirements to PSAs In this view, you can assign the requirements to one or more PSAs. For the PSA, you can check whether control cycles yet exist for the combination of material and PSA. In addition, the system displays a traffic light for each PSA. The traffic light indicates the existence and LCM status of the associated control cycle:   A red traffic light means that no control cycle has yet been created for the combination.   A yellow traffic light means that the control cycle still has the status In Preparation and is thus not included in the kanban calculation.   A green traffic light shows that a created or released control cycle exists for this combination and the kanban calculation can be performed without any problems.     
Business roles: Production Planner - Lean Manufacturing
Production Planner - Lean Manufacturing: (is an add-on role to the Production Planner)
Plans the material flow in a lean manufacturing environment. Creates the master data for the lean processes, controls and adjusts the process (six sigma), and executes error handling.