Material Requirements Planning

Macola ES's Material Requirements Planning (MRP) package is the ideal software for the single-site manufacturing and multiple warehouse operation. Advanced MRP functionality streamlines your manufacturing/ warehouse operation and ordering.

Important advantages of Material Requirements Planning are:

Project future inventory demand
Perform "What If" analysis
Generate PO's based on projected Inventory
Calculate aging of items
View net change comparisons
Net unlimited MRP locations
Peg to higher level requirements
Incorporate Serial /Lot effectivity
Use Material Planner to filter by exceptions
Automatically create shop orders

Macola ES's Material Requirements Planning (MRP) functionality also improves on-line pegging with drill downs to the source of demand or supply. Plus, the conversion of Computer Planned Orders (CPO) to Shop Orders, Production Orders, Productions Schedules, and Purchase Orders has been streamlined making it easier for you to track and expedite orders.

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) lets you easily incorporate netting against unlimited locations with the ability to select one or multiple locations, including, the ability to instantly view Receiving and Inspection locations.

Replenishment Orders such as Production Orders and Shop Orders, can be created automatically from both Firm Planned Orders and Computer Planned Orders. Purchase orders can also be generated automatically based on MRP's recommendation.

Macola ES's unique pegging feature provides a history of pegging information, allowing you to track difficult information through the path of orders and product structure, to higher level requirements. This is possible through an on-line, interactive process and through the various reports.

Instantly provide you with easy-to-read representations of your manufacturing information are instantly available.

You also gain the capability to incorporate Serial/Lot effectively in MRP. Macola's advanced Material Requirements Planning (MRP) will validate Serial/Lot expiration dates while netting on-hand inventory quantities.

Customer quotes with a high probability of becoming orders can be easily included in your Material Requirements Planning (MRP), giving you a more accurate assessment of your future planning and financial picture.

With the Material Planner, you can view specific exceptions, or a group of exceptions, triggered by the regeneration. This provides the buyer/analyst an interactive environment to not only view the exceptions, but also be able to take action on those exceptions. All this is done through a single interface that will allow computer planned orders to be converted to purchase orders and replenishment orders very efficiently. Where there is a need to expedite an order or change the quantity, the planner allows you to change them on your request one at a time or in a group.