Flexible stock management for a leaner business
From aerospace bins to hospital shelves, Kanban Live turns every location into a live signal. Scan stock in and out, track batches and expiry, and orders draft themselves the moment stock runs low — exactly what you need, exactly when.
No card required · Works on iPad, iPhone & the web, even offline · From the shop floor to the ward
Scan it in, scan it out. The board does the thinking.
Install Kanban Live on a barcode scanner, an iPad or your phone and scan everything as it moves — online or off. You get an instant, always-current snapshot of stock across every site, whatever it's stored in.
Scan stock as it moves
Every item in and out is a scan. A GS1 DataMatrix captures product, lot and expiry in one read; anything unlabelled falls back to a tap. No spreadsheets, no manual counts.
Every location signals
Bins, shelves, reels, containers, carts — each one reports its own status against a kanban, min–max or reorder-point rule. Drop past the trigger and the card flips.
Orders draft themselves
A trip drafts a line on a purchase order to your supplier, or a transfer order from your own warehouse. Your buyer reviews, approves and sends — nothing over-orders.
One engine. Every industry, every store, every order.
The distinctive scan-driven kanban flow you know, now with the tracking, policies and ordering that lean manufacturers, MROs, healthcare and warehouse teams run on.
Any store, any industry
Aerospace bins, hospital shelves, reels, drums, carts, vans — model your whole operation as one typed location tree, any depth. Panels still render as the iPad grid you know.
Batch, serial & expiry
Full lot and serial traceability with per-location balances. Pick earliest-expiry first, get ahead of use-by dates with alerts, and answer "which locations hold lot X?" in one query.
Smart replenishment
Set kanban, min–max or reorder-point per location. Each one trips the instant available stock dips — counting what's already inbound, so nothing double-orders.
Purchase & transfer orders
Trips auto-draft a purchase order to your supplier, or a transfer order for direct line feed from your own warehouse. Twenty bin scans become one PO. You approve and send.
Scan-first & offline
GS1 DataMatrix reads product, lot and expiry in one shot; manual entry covers everything else. Capture on the shop floor with no signal and it syncs cleanly, no duplicates.
Labels & live reports
Print kanban cards, location and shelf-edge labels as built-in PDFs. Then read every scan, movement and order status back as live reports and one composed activity feed.
Reduce human error at the scan.
It takes seconds to scan items accurately in and out. A GS1 DataMatrix captures product, lot and expiry in a single read; where labels are arbitrary, manual entry keeps things moving. Works with Socket Mobile and Linea Pro sleds, and links to your MRP/ERP.
Make stock control effortless.
Start a free trial today, or request a demo and we'll walk your team through it.