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    MRP is a computer-based production planning and inventory control system that aims to ensure availability of materials for planned production and customer delivery while maintaining low inventory levels. It takes a master production schedule for end items and translates it into time-phased requirements for components. MRP requires inputs of the master production schedule, product structure records containing bill of materials, and up-to-date inventory status records.

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    Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

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    MRP is a computer-based production planning and inventory control system that aims to ensure availability of materials for planned production and customer delivery while maintaining low inventory levels. It takes a master production schedule for end items and translates it into time-phased requirements for components. MRP requires inputs of the master production schedule, product structure records containing bill of materials, and up-to-date inventory status records.

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    MRP is a computer-based production planning and inventory control system that aims to ensure availability of materials for planned production and customer delivery while maintaining low inventory levels. It takes a master production schedule for end items and translates it into time-phased requirements for components. MRP requires inputs of the master production schedule, product structure records containing bill of materials, and up-to-date inventory status records.

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    Material Requirements Planning (MRP)

    Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is a computer-based production planning and


    inventory control system. MRP is concerned with both production scheduling and
    inventory control. It is a material control system that attempts to keep adequate
    inventory levels to assure that required materials are available when needed. MRP is
    applicable in situations of multiple items with complex bills of materials. MRP is not
    useful for job shops or for continuous processes that are tightly linked.
    The major objectives of an MRP system are too simultaneously:
    1. Ensure the availability of materials, components, and products for planned
    production and for customer delivery,
    2. Maintain the lowest possible level of inventory,
    3. Plan manufacturing activities, delivery schedules, and purchasing activities.
    MRP is especially suited to manufacturing settings where the demand of many of the
    components and subassemblies depend on the demands of items that face external
    demands. Demand for end items are independent. In contrast, demand for components
    used to manufacture end items depend on the demands for the end items. The distinctions
    between independent and dependent demands are important in classifying inventory items
    and in developing systems to manage items within each demand classification. MRP
    systems were developed to cope better with dependent demand items. The three major
    inputs of an MRP system are the master production schedule, the product structure
    records, and the inventory status records. Without these basic inputs the MRP system
    Cannot function.
    The demand for end items is scheduled over a number of time periods and recorded on
    a master production schedule (MPS). The master production schedule expresses how
    much of each item is wanted and when it is wanted. The MPS is developed from forecasts
    and firm customer orders for end items, safety stock requirements, and internal orders.
    MRP takes the master schedule for end items and translates it into individual time-
    phased component requirements.
    The product structure records, also known as bill of material records (BOM),
    contain information on every item or assembly required to produce end items.
    Information on each item, such as part number, description, quantity per assembly, next
    higher assembly, lead times, and quantity per end item, must be available.
    The inventory status records contain the status of all items in inventory, including on
    hand inventory and scheduled receipts. These records must be kept up to date, with each
    receipt, disbursement, or withdrawal documented to maintain record integrity.
    MRP will determine from the master production schedule and the product structure
    records the gross component requirements; the gross component requirements will be
    reduced by the available inventory as indicated in the inventory status records.

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