MRP - Material Requirements Planning Module |
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Optimizing profits through precise planning
Precise resource planning based on requirements
MRP helps organizations adopt a standardized set of
methods and processes by which they can schedule
procurement delivery of materials per demand,
thereby ensuring end delivery against committed
orders. In a production environment, organizations
would ideally like to schedule raw material
procurement deliveries in line with production
schedules, thus keeping their production line moving
while minimizing their inventory on-hand. Thus,
requirement planning within any organization offers
substantial value propositions for sum of logistics
chains.
The CANIAS ERP MRP Module provides for the
simultaneous planning of both material and
non-material resources. The module facilitates a high
degree of integration of those factors essential for
describing requirements such as time, quantity and
cost. In addition, while planning activities are being
executed, factors acting as determinants for
requirements (consumption, demand forecast, sales
budget, prioritized requirement, secondary
requirement) as well factors acting to meet the
requirements (purchase requisitions, purchase orders,
inventory, production order) are duly considered.
Depending on specific industries and organizational
requirements, user may select between different
consumption related procedures, including reorder
point procedure and deterministic planning. At the
same time, multiple connected lot-sizing procedures (such as fixed quantity and replenishment to
maximum stock level) provide a high degree of
customization in the planning of material resources.
Administering MRP procedure can be a time consuming
task when significant volume of data is involved. To
tackle this, the CANIAS ERP MRP Module facilitates
MRP planning by means of the net change procedure,
in addition to traditional and individual planning.
In this scenario, in parallel to capacity and time
factors, only the material resources that have changed
since the last planning process are considered.
Variety of planning methods for enhanced flexibility
In addition to the graphical evaluation of
product-based MRP data and the ability to display
production schedules, the CANIAS ERP MRP module
offers features to graphically display requirements status with single-level or full pegging on the timeline.
Due to its high degree of customization and the broad
range of features, all planning procedures can be
conveniently parameterized using check tables, and the
parameters can be linked with material data and the
associated BOM for precise planning.
Forecasting demand for optimized material availability
The effects of globalization combined with price
pressures have led organizations to place increasing
significance on efficient materials management. Highly
flexible and customer-specific requirements planning and
requirements forecasting aligned with organizational
goals, can be performed using the CANIAS ERP MRP
module. Users gain significant benefits as a result of the
high data integration and efficient processing offered by
the MRP module.
Since time spent in production is taken into consideration
while administering MRP, delivery schedules can be met
without date slips, resulting in enhanced customer
satisfaction. Accordingly, delivery durations are
shortened, storage costs are decreased and inaccurate
deliveries are avoided.
Central and integrated requirements planning offering critical functionality
Requirements planning is a critical component of the
end-to-end processing that is offered by ERP systems
with a high level of integration. Unfortunately, most businesses have not been able to realize the potential of
a full featured materials requirements planning, as most
ERP systems employ third-party software products which
impede the availability of valid data for requirements
planning.
The CANIAS ERP MRP module can be applied to the most
complicated tasks and is adequately suited for both
subsidiary operations and multi-site business processes.
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- Facility-based requirements planning
- Multi-dimensional data display
- Graphical monitoring of data
- Facility-based set up of planning and timing parameters
- Preparation of planning order based on facility scale
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- Gross/net requirements planning
- Primary or secondary requirements planning (solutions to multi-level product trees)
- Multiple planning methods:
- Stochastic
- Deterministic, with or without forecasting
- Reorder point procedure
- Methods for specification of multiple lot sizes:
- Least-unit cost procedure
- Fixed order amount
- Maximum inventory levels
- Part-period balancing
- Multiple forecasting methods
- Inventory requirements status
- Multiple planning methods:
- Planning for single material
- Combined planning
- Net change planning (for processed materials only)
- Preparation of production planning
- Reservation of materials
- Association of independent requirements with other documents within the system (project, customer, order
number)
- Monitoring of planning results using multiple report formats:
- Monitoring of planning results associated with defined reminders
- Monitoring of planning results in detail and with graphical displays
- Ability to define planning parameters on a facility basis
- Ability to define time parameters on a facility basis
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