CONTENTS:

1. MRP Concepts
2. Applications 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

• - 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

• - Defining Objectives for Material Requirements Planning Systems
• - Organizing for 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

• - 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

• - Training program Development for Material Requirements Planning

4. Systems Management

• - A Checklist of Material Requirements Planning Data Base Elements
• - Controlling and Ensuring Accuracy in Manufacturing Resource Planning Data
• - Automating Bill of Material Generation

• - 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