Knovalent

The Material Requirements Planning (MRP) ‘engine’ is critical to the success of any manufacturing system implementation. MRP is a very sophisticated calculator - it determines what raw materials are needed and when they should arrive and it develops a detail-manufacturing schedule, which includes finished products and all required sub-assemblies. The Vanguard MRP system accomplishes these tasks quickly and accurately - and provides considerable flexibility and control for the planner to establish parameters and ‘tune’ the process for optimum performance.

Key benefits of MRP

Automate the tedious material planning tasks
Accurately plan material requirements to support the production plan
Easily develop production schedules
Partial or fully automated operation
On-line visibility to sources of requirements

Key features of MRP

MRP can be driven by the master production schedule (MRP) - or directly by customer releases and orders
Utilizes bucketless time-phased requirements planning
Plans item schedules for repetitive manufactured items
Plans shop floor work orders for discrete manufactured items
Accommodates multiple lot sizing techniques with minimum, incremental and maximum lot size control
Includes a time fence definition to stabilize the material plan
Accommodates firm planned orders
Accommodates phantom items within the bill of material
On-line multi-level bi-directional pegging for full visibility of requirements and supplies
Available-to-promise visibility
Planners can work by exception - automatically flag all recommendations as released when created
Automates the execution of MRP recommendations: creates Shop Floor Control schedules and purchase orders, PO
Paperless MRP-no reports required - no re- keying of data required - MRP plan is on-line
Simulation runs of MRP for what-if analysis
Accommodates engineering change notification dates as stamped on the bill of material and/or routing
Filters eliminate recommendations with minor impact
Net-change reporting