A computerized system typically used to determine the quantity and timing requirements for production and delivery of items to both customers and suppliers. Using MRP to schedule production at various [..]

(MRP) The use of computer software to plan and manage a production process, for example the amount of materials or parts required, calculation of workload, delivery schedules, etc [..]

A decision-making methodology used to determine the timing and quantities of materials to purchase.

("MRP") An approach for material planning and ordering based on known or forecast demand requirements, lead times for obtaining each item, and existing inventories of all items. [D00 [..]

A computerized system typically used to determine the quantity and timing requirements for delivery and production of items. Using MRP specifically to schedule production at processes in a value strea [..]

Material requirements planning (MRP) is a computer-based inventory management system designed to assist production managers in scheduling and placing orders for items of dependent demand. Dependent de [..]

Material requirements planning (MRP) is a type of planning focused on the management of processes in manufacturing industries. MRP looks at the availability of materials for production and other relat [..]

The items that are finished products or important assemblies that have a major part in total turnover, or that dominate the production process due to the production techniques.

A dynamic safety stock.

The number of days that the dynamic safety stock must cover requirements.

The number of days the warehouse stock of a material is sufficient to cover requirements without taking account of any new receipts. The actual range of coverage corresponds to the safety time.

A procedure that ensures that there are enough components available for planned or production orders in production planning and production control.

The materials for which there are missing quantities can be processed, with the backorder processing function.

A number used to specify a standard explosion date (fixed key date) for all BOM levels.

The criterion that groups together all checking rules for all application areas for a material.

A rule that defines how the availability check is performed.

An MRP procedure that runs in the application server implemented in the ABAP language.

A generic term for the procedure in MRP for which stock requirements and past consumption values are important.

A type of materials planning in which materials are planned according to a cycle.

An indicator in the material master record that defines external procurement or in-house production of the material precisely.

Receipt element that is created during planning if shortages occur.

Quantity that is provided by a receipt.

A procedure that groups requirements from several periods to form a lot, in which an optimum cost ratio is determined between lot size independent costs and storage costs.

The production end date is the planned end date of an order, excluding the safety time (float after production).

A production lot is a production quantity of an assembly (finished product or semi-finished part) that is planned and produced together with reference to a number. Using this number, you can determine [..]

The default storage location for component withdrawal for final processing and for goods receipt of the product.

The number of working days between the date that the order is created and the planned start date.

A profile that contains parameters for calculating the dynamic safety stock.

The receipt days' supply displays how many days' requirements are covered by a material.

A material requirements planning run in which all materials are included in the planning run.

A check performed by the system to determine whether the requirements are covered by available warehouse stock and planned receipts from the purchasing department or from production.

Execution of material requirements planning (MRP) in a planning run in which only the materials that have had MRP-relevant changes made to them since the last planning run are rescheduled.

The number of days before the production start date for a higher-level assembly when a lower-level component must be made available.

The calculation of the planned start date using a planned order's planned finish date in MRP.

A group of transaction calls that are assigned to a user role and can be directly activated from the MRP list and the stock and requirements list.

A collection of data required for updating the material master record for planning.

A key that controls the MRP procedure (MRP or reorder point) used for planning a material.

Threshold value for available stock. If stock falls below this level, procurement proposals are to be generated.

A procedure in materials planning.

The total time for the in-house production or for the external procurement of a product.

A term for all objects displayed as items in the MRP list or in the stock and requirements list.

The MRP group, groups material from the material requirements planning point of view to allocate them control parameters for planning.

An indicator for storage location MRP that controls whether:

A document providing an overview of the results of the material requirements planning (MRP) run.

A term for the actions of creating a production plan or procurement plan for the materials in a plant or company. During the planning run, for each material, the system calls either classic MRP or MRP [..]

A key that defines which lot-sizing procedure the system uses for calculating the quantity to procure in the MRP run.

A procedure in which the lot size is calculated using the quantities entered in the material master record of the material.

The number of days the available plant stock covers requirements.

A term for procedures in materials planning that take into account and plan every future requirement during the creation of procurement proposals such as independent requirements, or dependent require [..]

A term for the actions of creating a production plan or procurement plan for the materials in a plant or company.

The execution of materials planning for all materials or assemblies that have the necessary entries in the planning file.

A shortage that occurs when the requirements quantity is greater than the receipt and stock quantity.

The sum of all requirement quantities in a month or within a definable number of months.

The date for materials planning on which the material is required.

A process in requirements planning with which totals records for dependent requirements are created in the planning run.

An automatic check during a planning run that checks whether receipts such as firmed planned orders, firmed purchase requisitions, or schedule lines:

A proposal from materials planning to reschedule a planned inward stock movement, for example, a production order or a purchase order, which has been firmed but is not required for this date.

A quantity by which a requirement exceeds the available quantity.

The lower-limit for the dynamic safety stock.

Minimum quantity that must be reached during procurement.

The minimum number of days that the dynamic safety stock must cover requirements.

The system rounds up the procurement quantity to a multiple of this value.

The quantity of stock to satisfy high requirements in the stocking-up period.

The number of days the warehouse stock of a material is sufficient to cover requirements without taking account of any new receipts. The safety time corresponds to the actual range of coverage.

An indicator in the material master record that refers to a group of time intervals that are relevant to material requirements planning.

Maximum quantity that can be stored for a certain material.

An upper-limit for the dynamic safety stock.

The maximum number of days that the dynamic safety stock must cover requirements.

A quantity that must not be exceeded during procurement.

A generic term for the activities involved in creating a master production schedule or an external procurement plan for all the materials in a plant or company.

An overview tree in the MRP list and the stock and requirements list.

The period of time, to which the importing of MRP elements to the stock and requirements list can be restricted.

A rule, consisting of a group of MRP elements and stocks, that controls the selection of this data in the stock and requirements list and the planning table for Repetitive Manufacturing:

A percentage indicating the proportion of required quantities of materials covered by stock on hand in the warehouse or stores.

A procedure in material requirements planning where the MRP controller must create the order proposals manually.

A procedure in consumption-based planning.

The system can be prevented from making automatic changes to order proposals, such as planned orders, purchase requisitions, or schedule lines in the planning run in the near future by using the manua [..]

Generic term denoting a facility enabling you to combine materials to form APO supersession chains or product groups.

An up-to-date overview of the stock of a material.

The costs incurred from the storage of a material.

An indicator that specifies the percentage rate for storage costs that is used for the procurement quantity calculation.

A list of all materials planned in the planning run.

Number of days into the future that a material covers requirements if only plant stock is taken into consideration.

Period that is defined for net change planning in the planning horizon.

A procedure in material requirements planning for calculating the lot-size that optimizes total setup and storage costs (optimized lot-sizing procedure).

A material that a customer or a vendor supplies for use in the production of goods specified in the order.

A function for determining the requirements quantities and dates of intermediate products and finished products that are the source of a fixed and planned receipt at a specific production level.

The next higher level of the bill of material that is the source of the requirement in a lower level, in the evaluations for material requirements planning.

A display of the pegged requirements of a requirement element in the MRP list.

An evaluation that displays the source requirements or the source procurement proposal of a chosen MRP element.

The requirements for non-combinable finished products and for combinable finished products and assemblies, created based on a sales order.

The total of all requirement quantities from one day or from a definable number of days.

The planned material requirements that are caused by the production of higher-level assemblies.

A function that initiates procurement without stockholding.

The production without stockholding.

The grouping of related items in a BOM that are discontinued together.

The time horizon to which the display of information in the MRP list andthe stock and requirements list can be limited.

The information on exceptional situations that occurred during the planning run.

A procedure that groups requirement quantities from one or several periods to form a lot size.

The period of adjustment is the period in which the planned independent requirements are not taken into account in the net requirements calculation.

A division of the time axis into periods, for example, days, weeks, or months.

The criterion for lot-size calculation in the static lot-sizing procedure.

A procedure in consumption-based planning that is based on future requirements predictions calculated using the forecast.

A procedure for lot-size calculation in materials planning with optimization of the sum of setup costs plus storage costs (optimum lot-sizing procedure).

A logical grouping of materials.

The lowest level that a material appears in a product structure.

The low-level code defines the sequence in which all materials included in the planning run are planned.

A criterion for calculating the lot size in static lot-sizing procedures.

The costs that occur for each purchase order or production order above the purchase order price or the cost of production regardless of the lot size.

A procedure in material requirements planning used to calculate order and production quantities (lot sizes).

A quantity that is received to stock or produced in one production run, and that has the same production costs and specifications.

A quantity to produce or procure.

A long-term planned orders are simulative planned orders that are used in long-term planning.

A storage location from which components are withdrawn for production.

The types of planning run include:

A control indicator that you set to make changes made in BOMs, Customizing, and certain material master data affect MRP.

Material requirements planning at storage location level. Storage location stock is not included in the available stock at plant level because the stocks are considered separately.

A defined period in which the system makes no automatic changes to the master plan during material requirements planning.

An MRP area represents an organizational unit for which you can perform material requirements planning separately.

The parts or products, in master production scheduling, that influence company profits or that take up critical resources are planned.

The total of all requirements that occur in one or a selected number of definable periods.

A part of the optimum lot-sizing procedure.

A filter consisting of time information, MRP elements, and MRP segments.

The number of days required to procure the material through external procurement.

A planned requirement quantity for a finished product in a period of time.

A request created in the planning run for a plant to trigger the procurement of a plant material for a certain quantity for a specific date.

A planned order that is created by the system during the procurement "Stock transfer from another plant" if the creation indicator for purchase requisition "Planned order" has been [..]

A function that calculates production dates and creates capacity requirements.

A procedure for lot-size calculation with optimization of the sum of setup plus storage costs (optimum lot-sizing procedure).

The total of all requirement quantities for a week or a definable number of weeks.

The definition of flexible period lengths at plant level.

A cycle in which the planning run is performed for a material.

A file that contains a list of all materials for which a change relevant to requirements planning has occurred and that are automatically flagged for planning.

A material entry in the planning file.

A system to support manufacturing and fabrication organisations by the timely release of production and purchase orders using the production plan for finished goods to determine the materials required [..]