Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II)

Course Content

This intensive 2 day course follows on from the introductory overview. Some organisations use output from supply chain/ERP systems but how these outputs were arrived at is not always readily known. This course will remedy this lack of understanding while showing at a simple mathematical level how the calculations of MPS, MRP, CRP and more are performed by the software. Over the 2 days, each of the elements of MRP II is covered in detail.

Topics covered in this course will include:

• A review of the elements of MRP II, how they fit together, and the performance measures that are needed
• The basic data that is needed for MRP II to work, the importance of data accuracy, and how it may be achieved
• The development of costs and costing
• Master planning - a review of executive sales & operations planning, followed up by master production scheduling, rough cut capacity planning and final assembly scheduling
• Material Requirements Planning, including a simple manual exercise
• Capacity Requirements Planning
• Executing the plans - purchasing management, shop floor control, financial management, the newer philosophies
• A review of the necessary ingredients for success and identification of constraints