Material Requirement Planning (MRP)

Production planning, scheduling, and inventory control system used

to manage procurement and manufacturing
Recommendations are created by evaluating
Demand and Supply
Bills of material
Scheduled PO receipts
Current On-hand inventory balances
Lead times
Order modifiers (MOQs and Multipliers)
Plans replenishment by creating
release or reschedule purchase orders or work orders
Uses the planner workbench execute those recommendations
Create POs
Reschedule Jobs and POs
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Material Requirement Planning (MRP)

Input:
Bill of Materials (BOM)
Inventory Information
Forecasts
Scheduled Sales Orders
Sourcing Rules
Output:
What items should be ordered
When each item should be ordered
How much of each item should be ordered
What existing orders are late
What resources are over-burdened

Material Requirement Planning (MRP)

Planner Workbench
Review and implement recommendations suggested by the
planning process
Selectively implement these recommendations as new and
rescheduled orders by releasing all or some of them
Activities that can be performed:
Review your resources
Review item details
Review of supply/demand
details
Review components, using
assemblies, and end
assemblies
Review the horizontal,
material, and capacity plan
Display a summary supply and
demand

Implement and maintain

planned orders
Release implemented
orders
Create firm planned orders
and firm implemented
orders
Review material and
capacity exceptions
Display a summary of
resource requirements