Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Software for Manufacturers
What to Buy, When to Buy It. What to Build, When to Build It.
Stop discovering material shortages after they have already disrupted production.
MISys Material Requirements Planning (MRP) gives manufacturers a clear view of future material and production requirements. Bring together inventory, open purchase orders, production orders, sales orders and forecasts to see what you need, how much you need and when you will need it.
Spot shortages early. Plan purchasing and production with confidence. Then turn your plan into purchase orders and production orders.
MRP has never been easier.
Works With the Accounting Software You Already Use
MISys Manufacturing integrates with:
See Material Shortages Before They Become Production Problems
Running short on one component can delay an entire production order.
MISys MRP looks beyond what is currently on the shelf. It considers inventory, incoming materials, scheduled production, demand and future requirements to help you identify shortages while there is still time to respond.
Instead of reacting to shortages, purchasing and production can work from the same forward-looking plan.
Plan Material Requirements
Calculate what materials will be required to support your production schedule while accounting for inventory already on hand and material already on order.
Coordinate Purchasing and Production
See when materials and subassemblies will be needed, then manually or automatically create the purchase orders and production orders required to satisfy the plan.
Prepare for Future Demand
Apply sales forecasts, sales orders and planned production to see how future demand may affect inventory and production requirements weeks, months or even years ahead.
From Demand to a Workable Production Plan
1. Build Your Master Production Schedule
Create a Master Production Schedule (MPS) using current inventory, purchase orders, production orders, sales orders and forecasts.
Define the locations and planning period you want to analyze and account for working, partial-production and non-production days.
2. Run Material Requirements Planning
MISys analyzes your production schedule and determines the materials and subassemblies required to support it.
Shortages are immediately identified so you can see where existing supply will not meet planned demand.
3. Take Action
Resolve shortages manually or automatically with Just In Time order releases.
When you are satisfied with the plan, create the required purchase orders and production orders directly from the MRP results.
Master Production Scheduling
MISys gives you the tools to create, analyze and adjust production schedules before committing resources.
- Create a Master Production Schedule net of current stock, purchase orders, production orders and sales orders
- Plan by location and date range
- Maintain plant work calendars including full, partial and non-production days
- Schedule forward from a fixed production start date
- Schedule backward from a required completion date
- Save and reopen multiple production schedules
- Share production schedules among workgroup users
- View schedules for all items or selected stocking criteria
- Drill down into scheduled activities and individual items
Material Requirements Planning
Turn your production schedule into specific material requirements.
- Instantly identify shortages of raw materials and subassemblies
- Create a Material Requirements Plan from any selected Master Production Schedule
- Manually schedule order releases to resolve shortages
- Automatically schedule Just In Time order releases
- Create purchase orders and production orders from MRP recommendations
- Include or exclude existing inventory, purchase orders and production orders
- Create and maintain batches of scheduling events
- Generate Production Advice Reports based on zero, minimum or reorder points
- Review MRP activity by period, active periods or net activity by item
Sales Forecasting and What-If Planning
Production planning should not stop with today's orders.
MISys lets you model future demand and evaluate its impact before committing to purchases or production.
- Maintain and apply sales forecasts to future production schedules
- Apply forecasts to an MPS to simulate planned purchasing and production
- Perform simulations to analyze future production scenarios
- Create Available To Promise projections
- Retrieve and schedule sales orders and sales quotes or estimates from supported accounting systems
Make Production Planning Proactive
MRP helps answer the questions manufacturers face every day:
Do we have enough material to build what we have planned?
What are we going to run short of?
When should purchasing place the order?
When should production begin?
What happens if demand changes?
Instead of answering those questions through spreadsheets, disconnected reports or last-minute expediting, MISys gives purchasing, inventory and production a coordinated plan based on the information already in your system.
See MISys MRP in Action
Every manufacturer plans differently. Bring us your questions and let a MISys expert show you how Material Requirements Planning can work with your purchasing, inventory and production processes.
Ask questions. See the workflow. Decide if MISys is right for you.