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Material Requirements Planning

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is a computerized system developed by Joseph Orlicky in the 1970s that calculates material requirements based on master production schedules and bill-of-materials data. MRP determines what materials to buy, how much to order, and when to order them to meet production demand while minimizing inventory carrying costs. It became a foundational technology for manufacturing planning and later evolved into manufacturing resource planning (MRP II) and enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.

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Material Requirements Planning
Taxonomic method record · ml-model / operations-management
  • Orlicky, J. (1975). Material requirements planning: The new way of life in production and inventory management. New York: McGraw-Hill. · URL
  • APICS (2020). APICS Dictionary (16th ed.). Chicago: APICS. · URL
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Taxonomic bucketAggregate Planningmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyInventory Routingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyJob Shop Schedulingmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familyKanbanmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.Same method familySCOR Modelmachine-suggested · Relational suggestion, not evidence.

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