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Material Requirement (MRP)

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Introduction

In Material Requirement Planning the application is used to automatically review the demand and display suggestions concerning required supply. In the Manufacturing Plan, the application suggests required Work Requirements and Requisitions. In the Purchasing Plan, the application suggests required Purchase Orders.

Material Requirement Planning

The Master Requirement Planning consists of two plans:

Planning Methods are entered to define what supply components are taken into account with the calculations of these plans.

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Configuration

Apart from the set up screens in the MRP module that are configured, additional set ups are required.

For the products that are planned in the Manuafacturing Plan, the following configurations are required:

For the products that are planned in the Purchasing Plan, the following configurations are required:

Execution

The material planner enters a Manufacturing Plan for a product for a certain time period and processes the plan.
In the created overview the material planner reviews and analyzes the lines. Based on the information that is processed by MRP, the plan suggests Work Requirements and Requisitions for certain quantities and certain dates.

The material planner then enters a Purchasing Plan for a product for a certain time period and processes the plan.
In the created overview the material planner reviews and analyzes the lines. Based on the information that is processed by MRP, the plan suggests Purchase Orders for certain quantities and certain dates.

Connection with other application areas

The MRP interacts with the following modules:

Application Menu

Please find below detailed descriptions of the windows of the MRP Management application area.


Transactions

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Setup

ManualDoc:SectionMaterial Requirement (MRP) Setup(Openbravo Admin)


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