Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

The Material Requirements Planning module allows users to shape their material planning process to fit their business. In addition to applying industry standard MRP logic, this module provides user definable time periods and retains the planning data in both buckletless and bucketed forms. The lag time between scheduled receipt and inventory availability is user defined.

The MRP module operates in the simulation mode with an authorization step. After regeneration of the MRP and management approval, the new plan may be released to the system in the form of planned orders and changes, or if determined to be unacceptable; the MRP can be regenerated without affecting the production system.

Managing material plans is simplified by the way in which data is viewed in the system. For example, an inquiry can be made which displays the complete plan for a part, including planned and released orders, projected available inventory and pegged requirements; or a simple inquiry which displays messages only.

As planned orders are authorized, the capacity plan is automatically maintained. As well as the usual bucketed inquiries and reports, all of the calculation and pegging detail is available from the MRP module.