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Material Requirements Planning —
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It is impossible to understand material and distribution
requirements across a large company without
advanced
planning tools. Sage MAS 500 ERP uses
historical data and
advanced replenishment
formulas to help you understand
current and future material and distribution requirements
and how
they will
affect your business.
Unlike legacy MRP systems, Sage MAS 500 provides single-
screen planning. This feature provides upto-
date item
statistics, including on-hand quantities, current purchase
orders, work orders, transfer
orders, and other elements
that affect planning decisions.
MRP calculations quickly generate suggested work orders
for manufactured
items, purchase orders for
raw materials
and subcontracted services, and
transfer orders to move
material between warehouse
locations.
MRP also integrates with the Sage MAS 500 Project
Accounting system. This integration provides a
critical management system for companies with material-intensive projects. It is also a key integration
point for both manufacturers who make-to-install and engineering firms that design parts that are
later manufactured into prototypes and finished goods. |
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The planning activity provides insightful information to help you make purchasing and production
scheduling decisions based on industry-standard practices and flexible, real-life circumstances.
Planning personnel can maintain plans by version. This allows them the flexibility they need to manage
material and distribution plans by product line, by manufacturing facility, and other user-defined
criteria. In fact, the Sage MAS 500 interactive planning methodology is one of the easiest material
management systems available today. |
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Features: |
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Use MRP versions to generate specific material or distribution plans for each
manufacturing warehouse or distribution center and another for the centralized or
global plan. |
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Multiple versions provide what-if simulations of the material and distribution plan. |
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Planners may sort material and distribution plans by item and warehouse in
ascending or descending order. |
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MRP may be filtered using a variety of selection criteria, including buyer codes, item
IDs, item classes, item types, purchase product lines, and warehouses. Each of
these selection criteria may be set for one or more classifications. |
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Demand calculations are based on demand by business day as opposed to demand
by month, and handle seasonality and other industry-specific requirements. |
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MRP considers safety stock, min/max quantities and transaction data from sales
orders, work orders, purchase orders, projects, and inventory management. |
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MRP blows through phantom requirements designated on a bill of material. |
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Demand smoothing helps you forecast projected demand over various inventory
periods, while using the data to drive MRP and production in a set of shop floor or
production facility working periods. The six smoothing methods include Daily,
Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly, Annually, and Planning. |
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MRP assumes infinite production capacity (24-hours-a-day, 7-days-a-week). With
Advanced Planning & Scheduling installed, MRP considers actual work center
schedules (not including current production load) by removing unavailable time for
days off, scheduled downtime, and holidays. |
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The planning screen displays summary and detailed item information, including onhand
balance, adjusted on-hand balance (including safety stock), warehouse
location, and more. |
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MRP exception messages may be sorted by severity and by message type. |
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Reports: |
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Material Requirements |
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Planned Orders |
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Projected Inventory Valuation |
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MRP Generation |
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 Material Requirements Planning - printable download of this page (PDF 416 kb) |
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