MRP (Material Requirements Planning)
A powerful MRP planning system, featuring:
- Weekly planning targets for any part number in your system.
- Automatic calculation of purchasing and work order requirements based on real-time stock on hand, lead times, and outstanding purchase orders, work orders, and rejects.
- Ability to define the exact depth of "drill-down" for any assembly.
- Separate plans for each site location/facility in your company.
- Maintain ideal stock quantities, freeing up capital while reducing lead-times to your customers.
The key to a successful manufacturing operation is adherence to a viable and efficient Material Requirements Plan (MRP).
Systemize! harnesses the experience of decades in the manufacturing field to provide an exceptionally powerful and easy to run MRP. Along with other manufacturing functions, this module will keep your company's production on schedule, with the right Stock On Hand (SOH) to balance lead-times and capital outlay, and help iron out kinks in the production flow.
Defining Your Plan
This is the starting point for creating your MRP plan.
Requirements are entered for any part number for weekly periods. Depending on your "drill-down" settings for specific part numbers, the MRP system will extrapolate child parts for assembly part requirements, and fully take account of these requirements in the resulting plan.
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Past requirements are stored to maintain visibility of historical trends, which can be useful when extending your plan later.
Viewing and Working with the Plan
After you have entered your requirements plan into the MRP Input, the MRP Output form is used to view the plan itself. All parts with a requirement will be in the plan, along with child components that are required to build up assemblies.
Lead time (including series of lead times for multi-level assemblies), stock quantitites, rejects, purchase orders, and word orders are all accounted for in the calculations automatically. What you are presented with is a breakdown of exactly when to place orders for what, and when to raise work orders.
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There are several useful features that make working with your MRP plan easier:
- Easily identify when your plan is unachievable - if the plan presents past dates in the schedule (these are highlighted in red also), then you know your inputs must be adjusted.
- Handy "Early Action" column indicates the first date that an order must be raised.
- SmartFilter allows for filtering by an distinct value in any column. For example, show only parts for a particular supplier/vendor.
- "Done" checkbox allows items to be checked off as ordered, or purchased, as the current run of the plan is worked through.
- View details of the plan break-down for each period for any part. The adjustment row can be used to identify over-orders, while the "Action" column indicates exactly when orders must be placed.