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RAD Solutions: MRP/ CRP/ MPS / RCCP
Master Production Scheduling, Material Requirements Planning (MRP) and advanced stocking policy functionality provide an ideal environment for assembling and manufacturing products or creating kits. The assemble-to-order environment is ideal for grouping common sub-assemblies and creating production savings to the business through economies of scale. Generic, partially assembled goods may be planned, assembled and booked into stock awaiting final completion and may be managed for customer specific requirements.
Master Production Scheduling & RCCP
The manufacturer has the ability to rapidly deliver custom assemblies to specific customers. Comprehensive cost roll-up facilities mean companies keep a tight control of ‘planned’, ‘actual’, ‘standard’ and ‘going-to’ costs. A Master Production Schedule represents a manufacturing plan, which is prepared with due regard to sales demand and existing supply. This balancing act is achieved using the MPS Management option. Once a plan has been developed, Rough Cut Capacity Planning (RCCP) may be used to ascertain the viability of the production plan, in both capacity and fiscal terms. The Master Production Schedule is then used as the input to an MRP run, thereby insulating MRP from minor fluctuations in actual sales orders.
Material Requirements Planning
The Material Requirements Planning (MRP) modules provide a full breakdown of requirements for component parts and materials, with a practically unlimited forward horizon, using fully-regenerative methodology. Factors taken into account in producing the requirements plan are master production schedules, sales orders, sales forecasts, customer schedules, purchase orders, purchase schedules, work in progress, works orders, bills of material and existing stock levels. MRP is classically used where the Company handles many sub-assemblies and raw materials, and finished products are predominantly manufactured for stock, or to well-defined sales forecasts and/or customer schedules. MRP is often used in conjunction with MPS to provide close control on the production plan.
Application of MRP will ensure that component parts and materials are available in the correct quantities at the correct times to satisfy the main manufacturing plan. Working calendars are used to reflect the working week and holidays. Powerful automatic placement routines are provided where manufactured parts may be placed as works orders, and purchased parts may be raised as either discrete purchase orders or handled by the purchase schedule system.
The MPS module looks at current demand including planned orders, actual orders, forecasts and schedules, using rough cut capacity planning to group families of products and ensure your Company has production capacity to achieve the long term plan.
Capacity Requirement Planning
The Capacity Requirement Planning (CRP) module tackles one of the fundamental problems facing manufacturers; that of how to plan and control the complexities of manufacturing many jobs each composed of a series of operations using limited resources. Three separate procedures are available: finite capacity planning, infinite capacity planning and delivery date estimation. Finite capacity planning produces an accurate, feasible and efficient manufacturing plan, infinite capacity planning is useful for determining bottlenecks, and delivery date estimation provides a quick and powerful means of arriving at realistic delivery dates for new orders taking into account current workload and material availability.
