Редактирование: Material Requirement Planning

Manufacturing planning and inventory control aimed at efficient management of product manufacturing. MRP-systems enable to simultaneously achieve the following goals: 
<ul>	Check that materials or products are available for manufacturing or supplying to the customers</ul> 
<ul>	Manage the lowest possible level of inventory</ul> 
<ul>	Plan manufacturing processes, supplies and procurement</ul>
 
At the input of such systems there are a Master Production Schedule ([[MPS]]), inventory data (information on availability of raw materials and semi-finished products), a Bill of Materials ([[BOM]]) and information on planning  (routing, labor and machine tool standards). At the output– a recommended production plan (detailed information about the starting time and the end time of each operation in terms of the product components) and a recommended procurement plan for the raw materials and semi-finished products. MRP technology was developed at the end of 1960s and has been further extended to a more general technology of Manufacturing Resource Planning ([[MRP II]]) and the concept of Enterprise Resource Planning ([[ERP]]).



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