Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Features and Functions

• Online run option parameters for material requirements planning (MRP) processing


• Customizable planning horizonz


• Fixed or flexible buffer stock rules


• Inventory can be excluded based on location


• Fixed order quantity or EOQ order rules


• Order quantity modifiers include minimums, maximums, and multiples, as well as specific component scrap rates, and shrinkage rates


• Lead time offset for parent based on component lead time


• Overrides inventory quantity calculations to take on-hand quantities into account


• Material requirements scheduled according to operation start date


• Suggests discrete jobs, repetitive schedules, and parts requisitions


• Generates material plans for models, prototypes, option classes, and configured items


• Plans incorporate BOMs, including common and phantom


• Purchasing requisitions are processed automatically


• Creates supplier shipping schedules based on MPS or MRP requirements


• All levels of a BOM can be pegged to customer orders online (viewed and processed)


• Uses action messages for canceling, defering, ordering, or prioritizing tasks


• Planning attributes include ATP calculations


• Tracks late orders, supplier changes, and recommended requisitions


• Tracks orders by component, supplier, or requirements plan


• Financial impact calculations included forecasted inventory turnover


• Discrete jobs and purchase requisitions can be rescheduled


• Follow-up report includes any corrective, preventative, or other actions taken, and their results


• On-hand inventory, requirements, receipts, and FPO are included in the material requirements planning (MRP) report


• Materials requirement planning (MRP) cost reporting summarizes standard, current, or other costs by product line


• Leads times can be displayed in a graphical format


• Manual changes to modeling parameters, including supply, demand, product structure, and cost


• Impact analysis


• Uses ordering rules to change material requirements planning (MRP) recommendations to orders


• Provides user-identified fields for blocking MRP on certain items


• Controls and tracks changes to BOMs