MRP

How it is used

Planners run MRP, often overnight, and act on the planned orders and messages it creates. MRP II (manufacturing resource planning) later added capacity and finance and grew into ERP. Wrong master data, such as an old BOM or lead time, gives wrong MRP results.

Example sentences

1. MRP suggests ordering 5,000 brackets, but half of them are already in the warehouse, so the stock data must be wrong.

2. We run MRP every night, so check the planned orders first thing in the morning.

Common collocations

• run MRP
• MRP system
• MRP run
• MRP planned orders

Related terms

• bill of materialsA complete list of the parts, materials and quantities needed to make one unit of a product, often arranged in levels from the final product down to raw materials. Shortened to BOM.
• ERPShort for enterprise resource planning: one software system that connects a company's purchasing, production, stock, sales and finance data, such as SAP.
• master production scheduleA plan that states how many of each finished product will be made in each period, usually week by week, and drives material and capacity planning. Shortened to MPS.
• lead timeThe total time between the start of a process, such as receiving an order, and its end, such as delivering the product to the customer.

This word in other fields

The same English word can have a different meaning in another field:

• MRP · Logistics & Supply Chain

More terms: Production Planning and Control

• capacity
• bottleneck
• production schedule
• demand forecast
• line balancing
• make-to-order
• ramp up