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2. Material requirements planning - Wikipedia

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   Material requirements planning (MRP) is a production planning, scheduling, and inventory control system used to manage manufacturing processes. Most MRP systems are software-based, but it is possible to conduct MRP by hand as well. An MRP system is intended to simultaneously meet three objectives:

3. Manufacturing resource planning - Wikipedia

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   Manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) [1] is a method for the effective planning of all resources of a manufacturing company. Ideally, it addresses operational planning in units, financial planning, and has a simulation capability to answer " what-if " questions and is an extension of closed-loop MRP (Material Requirements Planning).

4. Enterprise resource planning - Wikipedia

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   The Gartner Group first used the acronym ERP in the 1990s [8] [9] to include the capabilities of material requirements planning (MRP), and the later manufacturing resource planning (MRP II), [10] [11] as well as computer-integrated manufacturing. Without replacing these terms, ERP came to represent a larger whole that reflected the evolution of ...

5. Business Planning and Control System - Wikipedia

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   BPCS was developed by Chicago-based System Software Associates (SSA), which later became SSA Global Technologies [1] (which was then acquired by Infor Global Solutions and rebranded as Infor LX), and is used to control the operations of manufacturing companies. BPCS includes MRP logic to manufacturing operations, provided there are high ...

6. Manufacturing process management - Wikipedia

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   Manufacturing process management (MPM) is a collection of technologies and methods used to define how products are to be manufactured. MPM differs from ERP/MRP which is used to plan the ordering of materials and other resources, set manufacturing schedules, and compile cost data.

7. Master production schedule - Wikipedia

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   Outputs may be used to create a Material Requirements Planning (MRP) schedule. A master production schedule may be necessary for organizations to synchronize their operations and become more efficient. An effective MPS ultimately will: Give production, planning, purchasing, and management the information to plan and control manufacturing [3]