INTRODUCTION
Materials Requirement Planning (MRP) is one of the integral production control techniques used in Enterprise resource planning(ERP). It calculates the net requirements for materials based on its dependence on other materials and develop procurement proposals which are often in the form of purchase requisitions and planned orders. The MRP creates planned orders for all finished and semi-finished products and aims to make sure that the company has sufficient availability of material to meet its requirements. In ERP, the Master Data is a key factor in the successful implementation of the production process. It sorts and stores data automatically, based on their functions and distinctive characteristics. The Material Master Data
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Before the production process commences, we have to take inventory of our available stock to determine whether the company needs to make procurement of materials or not. This is achieved by performing a net requirements calculation. The net requirements calculation considers all the critical elements of the MRP to identify whether there is a shortage of material that would require procurement. If a procurement proposal is needed, the system is able to determine the amount of material needed by using the Lot size function. Our lot size in the production of the Aluminum Door-DR are HB (Replenishment to maximum stock level) and FX (Fixed order quantity) for our Raw material and semi-finished products respectively, as highlighted in the screen shots below. Also the MRP requires the specification of a plant and storage location. For this production 1000 and 0001 have been assigned as our plant and storage location requirements respectively.
We used the Multi-level single-item planning approach for our MRP run. With this approach, the MRP is able to calculate the materials used in our production process for all levels, down to the level of individual raw materials.
MASTER DATA FOR ALUMINUM DOOR-DR PLANNING
Below are the screen shots taken for the production process carried out.
Raw Material Master Data
Figure 1, shows the screen shot of our raw material which is aluminum alloy. This material is purchased from the vendor and will only be used in producing the
The existing production schedule will be maximized with the use of a Materials Requirement Planning System. “To determine an acceptable feasible schedule to be released to the shop, trial master production schedules are run through the MRP program. The resulting planned
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A short time ago, Space Age began utilizing the material requirements planning (MRP) inventory system that helps towards reducing the inventory and additionally improves towards on-time deliveries. The estimated cost per week is $1.25 to each store related to Gemini and for Saturn the estimated cost per week is $1.50. Saturn does not participate towards shipping immediately. Thus, the master schedule for producing Gemini and Saturn for the next six weeks are
“For companies today, MRP is a computerized information system. As such, it requires data to provide the information needed for decision making” (Vonderembse & White, 2013, Section 9.5, para 6). The goal of this paper is to read the Space Age Furniture Company case study and develop an MRP for Space Age Furniture Company using the information in the case including the production of sub-assemblies in lot sizes of 1,000 considering the lot size of 1,000 for sub-assemblies has produced a lumpy demand for part 3079; suggest ways for improvements over sub-assemblies in lot sizes of 1,000, analyze the trade-off between overtime costs and inventory costs, calculate a new MRP that improves the base MRP, compare and contrast the types of production processing—job shop, batch, repetitive, or continuous—and determine which the primary mode of operation is and why, describe ways that management can keep track of job status and location during production and recommend any changes that might be beneficial to the company and/or add value for the customer.
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