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Material Requirements Planning – Acumatica Cloud ERP Manufacturing Edition

Written by Rob Kirkey | April 01 2025

Satisfy Customer Requirements While Maintaining Optimal Inventory Levels

Generate time-phased manufacturing and purchasing plans for optimal inventory availability tied to forecast and customer demands. Reduce inventory, improve customer service, and avoid shortages and stock-out scenarios that result in costly changeovers and rush orders. MRP enables companies to set and maintain stock levels for frequently used items with a consolidated view of demand in user-defined time buckets with recommended actions to manage shifts in supply and demand.

MRP DISPLAY

• Manage by exception to identify what needs to be purchased, transferred, or produced from a single screen.

• All supply and demand can be viewed from a centralized location.

• Production, Purchase, and Transfer Orders are created directly from this screen.

FULL REGENERATION

• Schedule regeneration to run anytime, day or night.

• All existing planned orders for all items are eliminated.

• MRP starts over, calculating gross and net requirements. It then replans the required materials to be produced or purchased.

MASTER PRODUCTION SCHEDULE

• Drive your plan and plant operations from the Master Production Schedule (MPS).

• MRP plans all requirements based on the MPS.

• MPS will be treated as pre-planned production orders acting as the supply for other demand requirements.

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