Materials Requirement Planning (MRP)

Materials Requirements Planning is a process that references several key business activities as well as information across your business including all levels in the Bill of Materials, sales forecasts, sales orders and inventory. You can determine exactly what and when materials are required, in order to produce the most timely and competitively priced products and services for customers.

Calculate what materials are required, when and what actions are required to meet expectations

This is where all the questions get answered. The MRP module calculates what and when materials are required based on information gathered from sales forecasts and sales orders, bill of materials, inventory reorder settings and inventory balances. The result is a series of suggested action messages that effectively manages when, how much and where the materials are required. These action messages are sorted and filtered using an MRP Review form and a factory or purchase order can be created on Bill Of Materials Maintenance Screen the click of a button. A drill down on planned orders provides specific details about the source requirements that drive demand.

It is also possible to store multiple MRP runs. This provides an effective tool for pinpointing, managing and improving areas that cause costly changes in requirements and scheduling between runs.

Leverage stand-alone capability for distribution only Materials Purchase Planning

You don’t need a Forecast or Bill of Materials to leverage the power and functionality of MRP. In fact, you don’t even need to be a manufacturing operation – this module stands-alone and its simple configuration and easy set-up makes it ideal for the distribution-only business to provide accurate planning of inventory purchasing requirements.

Analyse by inventory tree only – no need to go global

High-value inventory items typically have longer lead times and tend to pose greater risk to the business in terms of loss, damage or non-delivery. Greentree offers greater control and flexibility to manage these items via Tree analysis which enables you to separate out high value/ long lead-time inventory items from low-value short lead-time items for more refined analysis. This means you don’t need to perform calculations on all inventory items at the same time, only those contained within the tree and you can manage the risk associated with long-lead time items and short lead-time items side-by-side. In addition you can further refine this to include only inventory items marked as critical.

Link directly to Manufacturing planning board

From the MRP Review form, you can launch a visual planning board to display and manage manufacturing factory orders and even output this to Excel for further analysis.