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Mar. 3--DATA INTEGRITY IS KEY TO SUCCESS: A long time ago, very early in our careers, we learned about the concepts and mechanics of Material Requirements Planning (MRP). This is a very neat approach to determining what you need by way of materials.
The logic is quite straightforward: for each "master item" that you make, you simply need a schedule, bills of material and lead times, and MRP figures out how many and when you will need the various components/raw materials of the master items. It even has nice logic to consolidate the requirements for the components that are used in multiple master items. MRP is certainly among the ABCs of manufacturing.
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