Piece Goods / Bulk Material

Manufacturing inventory management with IoT records quantities automatically via scales, RFID readers or location tags and writes them directly to the ERP system. Manual warehouse walks with their travel times are no longer needed. Neoception uses this approach to make stock data from Kanban bins available centrally in the ERP system, and at Würth Industrie Service an IoT scale system reports the stock of C-parts via NB-IoT. If stock falls below the defined level, the system can trigger a reorder.

With e-Kanban, the bin itself reports when material needs to be replenished, instead of a card being passed on by hand. Würth Industrie Service uses a fully automated scale system from HK.DIGITAL that records C-parts in Kanban bins and transmits the data via NB-IoT, supplemented by RFID. C-parts account for little purchasing volume but require a lot of effort in procurement and storage.

Real-time inventory tracking works when every movement of goods is recorded automatically and booked immediately. At TB International, RFID readers identify incoming parcels and record them in SAP Business One in real time, and storage is booked without scanning. Michelin processes its inventory data with Apache Kafka from Confluent on Microsoft Azure. With RFID from TURCK, ProMart offers unstaffed spare parts stores on construction sites.

Raw material batches can be managed digitally when every weighing is automatically linked to its batch and passed to the ERP system. Epple Druckfarben uses a central weighing system from Innomat-Automation that records manual and automated weighings in the same way and connects them to Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central. This makes batch information on raw materials and semi-finished products reliably available, for example to trace viscosity.