e-Kanban cards that become claimable work orders
The e-Kanban screen turned red. Nobody drove. The card had flipped. The marketplace never opened.
What e-Kanban solves and what it still misses
e-Kanban replaces paper cards with a digital empty or low signal. That is real progress over sticky notes. It is not yet internal logistics management if the signal only paints a dashboard. Drivers still need a claimable work order, a driver group that may accept, and a lock when someone takes it.
That gap is why many e-Kanban and lean replenishment products insist the refill signal become a picking mission, transfer, or logistics task with status and priority, not only a board color. twinzo AOS (commonly known as FGS) is the layer that turns the card flip into that marketplace job on the floor. The card state is the trigger. AOS is the offer and the record. How triggers are wired is under request triggers in the workflow editor. How MES versus human buttons share ownership is under when MES should open the job vs when the line button should.
How the card should land in the group
Map each card loop to the right stage and vehicle. A supermarket e-Kanban flip often opens prep work first, then a tugger milk-run delivery once trolleys are ready. A station e-Kanban for a pallet-size need usually opens a direct forklift job. Broadcast to the group that owns that stage. Keep offer scope as group broadcast. Do not assume the nearest truck is selected automatically. The shapes are under milk-run orders vs direct forklift orders. When movers are tracked, acceptance place and path still land in the spatially oriented dataset for later review.
Visual bins that never flip digital still fail the same way paper failed: silent empties. If the card is digital but AOS is missing, the failure mode is a red tile nobody claims. Empties and returns that need the same treatment are under empties as a first-class call-off.
e-Kanban versus milk runs sized to theory
A milk run planned on theoretical consumption pushes trolley material on a clock through supermarket prep and tugger delivery. e-Kanban pulls when the bin or card actually empties. Plants often need both. Keep the milk-run multi-stage path for stable high-volume loops. Wire e-Kanban into AOS so real empties open the correct stage: supermarket prep, tugger delivery, or direct forklift bring. Scrap spikes and defective material are the rare case where demand jumps. For those, a labeled exception trigger still belongs in the marketplace. When a card flips on one loop while another milk-run lap is quiet, do not dump a pallet job into the tugger group. Use forklift capacity freed by the quieter afternoon. That mix is under milk runs on theoretical consumption vs dynamic pull across lines.
A typical red tile that finally moved a truck
A supermarket card flipped at 09:10 every day. Team leads watched a wallboard and phoned. After the flip opened an AOS job into the supermarket group, drivers claimed within a minute on most cycles. The board still showed red until accept. The difference was a work order with an owner, not another light.
How teams decide e-Kanban is connected
1. Trace one card flip to a work order ID - If you cannot, the marketplace is not wired.
2. Confirm the right driver group sees it - Wrong group means wrong claims or silence.
3. Require accept and complete on the same record - A red tile alone is not a closed loop.
4. Review unclaimed card flips weekly - Aging flips are group or priority problems.
Pull automation sits under material order automation and internal logistics optimization, with depth on the features overview. Pricing is under pricing.
Get in touch if you want to walk whether your e-Kanban flips already become claimable work orders, or only red tiles on a wall.