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Make your first Kanban card free.
The next job is waiting on a quarter-inch end mill. Start the next order while you’re standing at the tooling drawer.

Work from bin 1 — bin 2 waits full, with the card in it.

It goes to the drop point by the door.

One scan per card — that’s the whole reorder.

Grouped by vendor, ordered in one pass.
Used by people at
Stock reaches its minimum level. Someone scans the card. The order lands in the queue.
Details once, reused after.
On the shelf where the work is.
No software on the shop floor.
One queue, every purchase method.

They started with the parts that hurt most, then added categories from there.
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Four trucks at a time became eight, in six months.
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The bottleneck moved off the floor and the high-value builds kept coming.
Read the case studyArda works differently from spreadsheets, whiteboards, and traditional systems because the reorder signal lives at the point of use.
Arda helps teams manage physical reorder workflows without forcing a full systems replacement.