MRP

The benefits of FactoryMaster's M.R.P. are especially helpful where you manufacture many Assemblies and Sub-Assemblies with a number of common Components or Sub-Assemblies and your Customers have a very volatile Call-Off Requirement on you. This combination creates an administrative nightmare without some form of automation and we believe FactoryMaster's M.R.P. solution to be an excellent aid to managing this situation but we would encourage you to talk to our customers for their view on how beneficial our M.R.P. solution really is.

In summary, it achieves all the following:

• Incorporates all the latest Sales Order Book Data
• Incorporates all the latest Purchase Order Data
• Incorporates all the latest Works Order Data
• Incorporates all the latest Stock and Raw Material Data
• Incorporates all the latest Bills of Material Data
• Applies Production or Purchase Lead Time to every Item
• Identifies Net Requirement of any Component or Raw Material where required
• Produces suggested Work Orders taking into account minimum Production Batch rules
• Produces suggested Purchases Orders taking into account minimum Purchase Batch sizes
• Provides forecast purchase requirements (to send to each Supplier), to help drive down Prices and Delivery Times

The FactoryMaster MRP module requires lots of data from various parts of the system and so it will typically take 3 or more months to become a usable option.

The benefits of M.R.P. can only be fully realised when all the underlying information is accurate and can be relied upon and this often means 3, 6 even 9 months after installation - unless you have all the accurate information in other systems from which we can import this information.

Many companies generate their Works Orders and Purchase Orders back to back from their Customer Orders - often this is considered to be the only way. However, where you have volatile and ever changing Sales Orders from your Customers then this becomes a repeated nightmare of changing all the underlying Works Orders or Purchase Orders ever time anything changes.

Also, where you have commonality of Components (Manufactured or Bought-In) or Raw Materials you wind up raising more Purchase Orders and Works Orders, for smaller Batch Sizes, than necessary resulting in higher Purchasing, Manufacturing and Logistics costs than necessary.

FactoryMaster's M.R.P. will assist by reducing all your actions to just just a single action for every unique Part or Material as ALL their requirements (with Lead Times taken into account) are netted together into a single requirement for each item.

The MRP report has various options including production by Preferred Supplier which can then be supplied direct to your Suppliers as your forecast requirement to supplement your actual Purchase Orders.

FactoryMasters MRP can run as Daily, weekly or Monthly MRP, giving a 12 day, week or monthly view.