Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

The outputs of MRP provide answers to the following production planning questions:

- What materials (raw and packaging) to order?

- How much quantity of each material to order?

- When to place the order for each material?

- When to deliver each ordered material to the warehouse?

 

The basic inputs to MRP are the following:

- Released production orders, confirmed production orders, and planned production orders (from MPS module).

- Bill of materials of products to be manufactured to meet forecasted sales and received customer orders.

- Materials inventory on hand.

- Allocated material inventories to production orders as recorded in the Production module.

- Approved Purchase Requests (PRs) and Purchase Orders (POs).

- Created Purchase Orders (POs).

- Purchasing lead times.

 
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