EKANBAN – ERP INTEGRATION
A web service has been developed to be integrated into customers’ ERPs using XML files. The goal is to minimise user interaction and use their ERP data to achieve an integration with ekanban. To do this, ekanban generates XML files with the consumption and shares them with the supplier in an FTP server. The supplier automatically integrates the data into its ERP, and when sending the material, another XML is generated that is also integrated into ekanban (thus converting the consumption into material that is in preparation).
Procedure
In order to provide the material consumption, the customer reads the QR or RFID tags
- Ekanban periodically uploads an XML file with the consumption information to an FTP server. The timescale for uploading the XML file is agreed between the customer and ekanban.
- The customer downloads and integrates the XML file into their ERP system.
- The customer sends a confirmation to verify that the XML file has been successfully downloaded.