Material Requirements Planning (MRP)- including Purchase Scheduling, Forecasting and Automatic Purchase Orders based on Sales Orders, Forecasting, Reorder Level or Work Orders demand. Auto creation of Subassembly Work Orders and consideration of Sales Orders and Work Orders that are Auto Created.
Horizons Manufacturing Suite MRP module extends the inventory planning and control tools, reports and inquiries that are provided in the Bill of Material/Production Entry module. Manufacturers with multi-level bills of material, long lead time purchase requirements or highly competitive make to stock or make to order environments will benefit from the easy to calculate, easy to access materials needs calculations provided in this MRP process.
Small and mid-sized manufacturers must be nimble and flexible to be competitive. The MRP module within HMS makes it easier than ever.
Use Tools that Keep You Competitive
- Calculate material needs quickly for rush or last minute orders
- Include parent level forecast by item, or by item and customer
- Efficiently launch purchase orders
- Set calculation buckets by item
- Easily switch an item from a “make” to a “buy”, or vice versa, on a per item, per need basis
- Manually add unusual or unexpected items for efficiency to the purchase requirements window and then include it in the auto purchase order creation tasks
- Create user defined groupings of items on the fly for efficient work order or purchase order creation
- Restrict tools allow users to select for items for action based on planner/buyer codes, item classes, date ranges, vendors or other action critical issues
- Use Gross Requirements Reporting to identify expected use up and delivery dates
- Detailed documentation for additional review and analysis
- Define materials in locations as available or unavailable to the MRP netting process, protecting customer specific materials or consignment stocks from unplanned use up
- Enable purchasing agents to quickly identify best methods for obtaining critical materials through a variety of vendor selection methods such as least cost and shortest lead time
- Calculate modified MRP calculations based on limited items, work orders only or forecasts to support critical planning needs for key materials or resources
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