INVENTORY MANAGEMENT FOR KANOA MES
Kanoa Inventory
Manage parts, raw materials, finished goods, stock levels, storerooms, suppliers, and equipment bills of materials inside Kanoa MES. Kanoa Inventory gives manufacturers and Ignition teams a structured foundation for understanding what is in stock, where it is stored, and how inventory moves across the plant.
Kanoa Inventory is an add-on solution and requires Kanoa Ops.
Put inventory in the context of your plant
Kanoa Inventory builds on the asset hierarchy and operational foundation established in Kanoa Ops. Storerooms and inventory locations become part of the same plant structure used to organize equipment, lines, areas, and sites across Kanoa MES.
That shared foundation helps teams understand not only how much inventory is available, but where it is stored and which plant equipment it supports. Kanoa Inventory extends the Ops asset model with parts, bins, stocking policies, transactions, suppliers, and equipment bills of materials—all within the same Ignition-powered environment.
Create a shared definition of every inventory item
Build a structured catalog with part numbers, categories, descriptions, manufacturers, and default units of measure. Classification flags help teams identify critical, consumable, repairable, and serialized items while keeping essential part information available in one place.
Know what you have and where it is stored
Expand a part to review its inventory across storerooms and bins. See on-hand, reserved, on-order, and available quantities alongside the unit of measure, stocking policy, and managed-stock status maintained for each location.
Transaction history provides the supporting record of how quantities changed over time.
Set inventory rules where the stock is actually held
Different parts and locations need different stocking strategies. Define minimum and maximum quantities, reorder points, reorder quantities, safety stock, cycle-count frequency, and managed-stock status for a specific part at a specific inventory location.
These policies help teams identify inventory that may require attention without implying that reaching a threshold automatically submits a purchase order.
Preserve the reason every quantity changed
Record receipts, issues, transfers, returns, and adjustments as structured inventory transactions. Capture relevant context such as quantity, inventory location, supplier, cost center, reference number, related asset, lot or batch reference, notes, transaction date, and user where applicable.
Corrections can be recorded through adjustment transactions, preserving the movement history instead of rewriting it.
Explore Kanoa Trace
The two Solutions can be used together when manufacturers need both plant inventory management and detailed production genealogy.
Connect parts usage with maintenance history
When Kanoa Maintenance is also licensed, technicians can issue parts from Kanoa-managed inventory directly to maintenance work-order events.
The resulting inventory transaction stays connected to the maintained asset, technician, quantity, and maintenance activity where the part was used. This gives maintenance and storeroom teams a clearer record of parts consumption while keeping inventory and work management inside Kanoa MES.
