Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is software that helps companies estimate the required quantities of raw materials, maintain inventory levels, and ensure manufacturing has all the items needed to ...

After decades of vendor-dictated upgrades and monolithic gridlock, agentic AI is ushering in a new era of enterprise autonomy ...

Whenever you talk about manufacturing businesses, no matter whether discrete or process manufacturing, the terms Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Material Requirements Planning (MRP) invariably ...

We're a small manufacturer that produces hardware systems with unique serial numbers that we track through assembly, QC, a small amount of rental business, and post-sales service (both for RMAs, and ...

There is not a huge difference between Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) and its second iteration known as MRP II. Each system was designed to help ensure businesses have the right balance of ...

Brian Sommer's blow by blow look into the future of manufacturing got me thinking about some of the points he made. I was especially taken with this section: Seriously rethink what cost accounting and ...