Feature
Material Requirements Planning
Material planning across every level of the material list, so a shortage appears in the week it occurs rather than when the operation starts.
Operational Problem
- 1Accepted demandSales orders and the jobs raised against them
- 2Explode the billDown every level to raw material
- 3Net offFree stock, open production and purchase balances
- 4RecommendationMake or buy, and the week it is needed
- 5You convert itA draft works order or requisition, never an order
A simplified drawing, not a screenshot. An MRP run produces recommendations. Nothing reaches a supplier until somebody approves it.
Material is ordered when somebody notices it is low, or when a job reaches the stores and the box is empty.
A shortage on a subassembly three levels down does not announce itself until the operation is due to start.
Reorder levels are set once and then drift out of date as the order book changes.
Capabilities
- 1.
Know what to buy and when — Turn accepted demand into make and buy recommendations across the weeks ahead.
- 2.
Catch shortages early — Material planning works down every level of the material list and finds the subassembly that will run short before the operation is due to start.
- 3.
See the reason for every suggestion — Each recommendation names the customer order behind it.
- 4.
Stay in control — Recommendations become works orders or requisitions only when you convert them.
How It Works
See Which Order Needs The Material
A recommendation names the demand behind it. When a customer moves an order out by three weeks, you can see which purchase suggestions move with it.
Catch Shortages Three Levels Down
Bills explode through subassemblies to raw material. A loop in a bill is refused when somebody creates it, not discovered when a run hangs.
Review Recommendations Before Raising Orders
An MRP run produces recommendations, not orders. Each one becomes a draft works order or a purchase requisition that follows your normal approval route. Nothing reaches a supplier until somebody approves it.
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