What is MRP? Why should we use it?
First, let's take a brief look at what MRP is.
MRP, which stands for Material Requirement Planning, is known as material requirement planning in Turkish. The planning, inventory and scheduling system that enables the production process to be carried out effectively by integrating data from different departments such as production plans, stock and bill of materials is called MRP. In addition to ensuring production efficiency and quality production, MRP provides both time and cost savings by predicting possible needs in the future. It provides convenience with its automated production process by using the power of software and increases customer satisfaction by creating an efficient production schedule.
Well, let's move on to MRP purposes.
The primary goal of material requirements planning is to increase production efficiency. It aims to foresee the need that may arise in the production process, to save time and cost, to make the use of labor and equipment more effective, to automate the production process by using computer power, to produce quality products and to provide customer satisfaction.
If we examine which advantages of MRP for us;
- It enables planning regarding the final product and production capacities in the bill of materials.
- It determines the determination of low-level needs and the time planning of these identified needs.
- It provides the necessary analysis by following the finalized order quantities and sales.
- It makes it easy to follow the production plan, the stock amount of the product and the remaining amount.
- It enables the analysis of stock and warehouse costs.