Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Features and Functions

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


• Customizable planning horizonz


• Time-phased planning data generated into daily, weekly, or monthly buckets


• Bucketless data


• Fixed or flexible buffer stock rules


• Orders or components have associated safety lead times


• Inventory can be excluded based on location


• Multiple level material requirements planning (MRP) runs along with multiple level MPS component planning.


• Fixed order quantity or EOQ order rules


• Order policies include dynamic lot sizing techniques, such as least total cost, least unit cost, non-MRP planned, part-period balancing, period order quantity, and the Wagner-Whitin algorithm


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


• Order quantity modifiers include shrinkage rate


• Order modifiers quantify planned order quantities


• Lead time offset for parent based on component lead time


• Lead time offset parameters include safety lead time tied to item components, order lead time, and parent order lead time based on item component


• Variable lead time offset determined by run standards


• Time-phased order point handles items with dependent or independent demand, or combination thereof


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


• Material requirements scheduled according to operation start date


• Time fences determine when planned orders can be scheduled by material requirements planning (MRP)


• Time fences place restrictions on planned order scheduling by material requirements planning (MRP)


• Takes item shrinkage factors into account


• Filters exception messages into exception sets


• Unconsumed forecasts from past due periods can be recognized as demand


• FPOs


• Purchase requisitions


• Demand calculations include sales forecasts, sales orders, and in-house orders


• Displays material requirements planning (MRP) planning calculations


• Uses both material requirements planning (MRP) and CRP algorithms to determine material and capacity


• Determines material requirements for master demand schedules and master production schedules


• MRP modes include regenerative and net change batches, real-time transactional, and what-if scenarios


• Suggests discrete jobs, repetitive schedules, and parts requisitions


• Engineering changes, including ECO use-up alerts


• 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 single level pegging to show which high level parents created the requirement, and to resolve lower level material issues


• Links multilevel pegging with MPS order to determine make-to-order parts


• Stores pegging data in a bucketless system


• All requirements and orders can be pegged to the next level (single level pegging)


• Single level pegging can include or omit a phantom BOM


• Traces requirements for a work order by pegging the finished good


• Determines demand and supply pegging by project or contract


• Pegging for released orders or open work orders using projects or contracts as requirements sources


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


• Planner can use filters to prioritize action messages


• Suspense file for action messages


• Planning attributes include ATP calculations


• Recommends rescheduling for supply-demand alignment


• Tracks late orders, supplier changes, and recommended requisitions


• Tracks orders by component, supplier, or requirements plan


• Financial impact calculations included forecasted inventory turnover


• Exception messages are classified and sent by planner


• FPOs are used to allocate material and reserve capacity


• Discrete jobs and purchase requisitions can be rescheduled


• Changes planned orders and FPO into discrete jobs and adds them to repetitive schedules and purchase requisitions


• Planned orders are categorized by item and by vendor when released to purchasing


• Inventory report includes forecasted value of inventory that will be used in a production plan


• Generates material requirements planning (MRP) report online


• Generates order action reports which include rescheduling, or results from a pull or push system


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


• User defined material requirements planning (MRP) report periods


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


• Horizontal reporting


• Vertical reporting


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


• Materials requirement planning (MRP) cost reporting incorporates projected costs


• User can select the print sequence of a material requirements planning (MRP) report, by planner, or part


• Users can print a material requirement planning report that includes active projects or action messages


• Leads times can be displayed in a graphical format


• Production models based on multiple concurrent material requirements plans


• Plan version controls and comparison


• Online production modeling


• Offline production modeling


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


• Impact analysis


• Planning action reports are updated with any actions that are required to fulfill a plan


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


• Business segments run independent planning cycles with separate shop calendars and without duplicating master file data


• Provides planner BOM offset lead-time


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


• Controls and tracks changes to BOMs