Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

MRP allows for more efficient and effective use of resources.

Features of MRP

• Items can be grouped together by buyer or planner to allow segregation of responsibility.
• Order points and safety stock levels are maintained to ensure inventory availability.
• Expiring inventory is removed from available inventory.
• Recommended start dates take QC lead time and production lead times into consideration.
• MRP is used to suggest formula batch tickets, packaged goods batch tickets, and purchase orders.
• Premier provides a group of displays to indicate what is required in manufacturing or purchasing, as well as indicates recommended start dates and completion dates.
• Incorporate forecasts into MRP runs to compare to actuals.
• MRP can look as far into the future as desired; the user provides the planning date.
• MRP looks at the actual sales and/or master production schedule (MPS) and compares them to the on-hand inventory to calculate net shortages.
• Recommended purchase orders can be automatically generated from MRP projections.
• An MRP Demand Supply report is generated in Excel to allow what-if scenarios and more flexible data manipulation.
• MRP groups the need for all packaged goods under the formula used in the package. Multiple package sizes may be combined on one formula batch ticket.
• MRP allows the planner to drill down from the suggested requirements for an item to view a list of sales orders or batch tickets on demand.
• MRP suggests dates to produce or purchase items using the orders and batch tickets in the system.

• MRP suggestions are utilized to accurately schedule work centers.
• Automatically schedules work centers according to manufacturing needs.
• Efficiently manages production and labor needs for selected work centers.
• Work center schedules can be viewed in 7-day increments.
• Easily view work center scheduling conflicts.
• Instantly rearrange columns to view data by preference.
• Scheduling includes unallocated, closed, and held batch tickets.