TOPICS IN THIS SECTION:
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Introduction
Planning Implementing and Managing An Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) Project
The Mechanics of Top Management Planning
The Mechanics of Operations Management Planning
Materials Requirements Planning
The Mechanics of Operations Management Execution and Control
Configuration Management and the MRP Database
MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS PLANNING
These articles are organized under various topic headings. Each bullet point identifies a separate service area.
1. MRP Concepts
2. Applicatiions and Case Studies
3. Planning, Implementing and Managing
4. Systems Management
1. MRP Concepts
- The relationship between Material Requirements Planning and Enterprise Resource Planning
- The relationship between Material Requirements Planning and Cost Accounting Systems
- Material Requirements Planning in Purchasing
- The Role of Manufacturing Engineering in Material Requirements Planning
- The Integration of Computer-Aided Design and Material Requirements Planning
- Guidelines for Maintaining Optimum Queue Levels
2. Applications and Case Studies
Material Management Activities and Techniques
- Lot-Sizing Methods for Material Requirements Planning Systems
- Evaluating Lot-Sizing Strategies
- Learning to Use Net Change mrp
- Inventory Performance Measurement: Principles and Reports
- Supplying Maintenance, Repair, and Operating Requirements
- Bar Coding Techniques for Inventory Control
- Computer support for Stockroom Order Picking Operations
- The Role of Purchasing in Developing a Competitive Material Management Strategy
- Implementing an Optical Scanning Data Collection System
- Implementing a Product Standardization Program
Inventory Control and Material Requirements Planning
- Effect of Data Inaccuracy on Material Requirements Planning
- Cycle Counting for Warehouse Inventory Record Accuracy
- Establishing a Formal Stockroom System
- Using Bills of Material to Combine Nonrelated Inventory Items
- Guidelines for Automating Physical Inventory Counting
- Controlling Floor Stock
- Measuring Performance to an Aggregate Inventory Plan
Materials Requirements Planning and Capacity Requirements Planning
- Materials requirements planning and ERP
- Interfacing mrp with cost accounting
- Interfacing mrp with purchasing
- Interfacing mrp with manufacturing engineering
- Interfacing mrp with a CAD system
- Establishing lot-sizes
- Establishing inventory performance measures
- Implementing a data accuracy program
- Conducting cycle counting for a data accuracy program
- Establishing a formal stockroom system
- Material requirements planning in a contract oriented environment
- Organizing for the material planning function
Using Material Requirements Planning in Different Manufacturing Environments
- Perspectives on Selecting Material Requirements Planning Features
- Material Requirements Planning in a Fabrication and Assembly Environment
- Cumulative Material Requirements Planning Systems for Repetitive Manufacturing
- Modifying Standard mrp Software for a Repetitive Manufacturing Control System
- Material Planning and Control Systems for Project- and Contract-Oriented Firms
- Material Management in Repetitive Manufacturing Environments
- Multi-plant Material Planning and Shop Floor Control: Construction Equipment Case Study
- Just In Time for Low Volume Production: Allis Chalmers Case Study
3. Planning, Implementing and Managing
Planning for Material Requirements Planning
- Defining Objectives for Material Requirements Planning Systems
- Organizing for Material Requirements Planning
Implementing Material Requirements Planning
- Ongoing Control: The Data Entry Process
- Guidelines for Piloting a Material Requirements Planning System Conversion
- Post-Installation Audit for Material Requirements Planning Systems
- Making Net Change Material Requirements Planning Work
Managing Material Requirements Planning
- Performance Measurements for Material Requirements Planning Systems
- Lead-Time Management
- Material Requirements Planning System Enhancements
- Managing Routine mrp Processing Activities
- Simplifying Inventory Management with Computer Graphics
- Enhancing a Material Requirements Planning System
Education and Training
- Training program Development for Material Requirements Planning
4. Systems Management
Data Base Organization and Control
- A Checklist of Material Requirements Planning Data Base Elements
- Controlling and Ensuring Accuracy in Manufacturing Resource Planning Data
- Automating Bill of Material Generation
Systems Design
- The Role and Use of Exception Messages in Material Requirements Planning
- Using Microcomputers for Material Requirements Planning
- Development of an Integrated Product Requirements Data Base: Lockheed Case Study
- The Next Generation of Material Requirements
Planning Software
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