Infor SyteLine Material Requirements Planning (MRP) module assists you in managing the balance between supply and demand. MRP is a mode of planning that plans requirements in order by the lowest level in which the item appears in a bill of material. That is, it plans all end items first, then all items at the next level, and so on, backward planning each requirement from the requirement's needed date to the item's lead time and batching together requirements needed at the same period of time.
Unlike APS, MRP does not consider routing times, resource capacity, or shifts. The responsibility rests with you, the planner, to make sure your shop floor has the available capacity to work the plan. MRP generates planned orders and exception messages to help you implement an accurate plan. MRP helps reduce inventory, increase manufacturing productivity, and ultimately facilitates cash flow.
- Explode all assembly schedules into component requirements
- Consume the forecast with actual orders as they are received
- The master production schedule (MPS) allows you to control production of key end items to help you protect your schedule from fluctuations in order-based demand (forecasts, customer orders, parent job orders, etc.). MPS is a manually created, anticipated build schedule for an item. You create it based on your expectations of demand and your estimation of resource capacity.
- Material Planning Workbench for automatic creation of Purchase Orders, Jobs, or Transfer Orders
- Run MRP for all sites or individual sites
- Define a source per part – Manufactured, Purchased, or Transferred to define sourcing by site.
- Available To Promise
- View Exception messages when exceptions occur such as on-hand quantity drops below safety stock, or when a planned receipt is no longer needed (or needs to be moved in or out in time)
- Use the Order Action Report to determine the job orders and purchase orders you must generate and release for a given item to be available when needed
- Replicate MRP planned transfer orders to the supply sites in your multi-site environment
- Peg each supply against demand using the Pegging Display form
MRP generates planned orders and exception messages to help you implement an accurate plan that reduces inventory, increases manufacturing productivity, and ultimately facilitates cash flow.
