Material Requirements
Planning
QMUZIK MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS PLANNING
(MRP) IS AN EXTREMELY FEATURE-RICH AND
POWERFUL PLANNING TOOL. MRP DYNAMICALLY
PLANS TO BALANCE SUPPLY AND DEMAND AS PER
PREDEFINED LOT SIZING POLICIES, LEAD-TIMES,
CONTRACT REQUIREMENTS, SHELF LIFE EXPIRATION AND QUALITY REQUIREMENTS.
MRP considers demand from the sales forecast,
open sales orders for products, spare parts and
customer specials and– repairs, internal
requirements for maintenance and equipment
refurbishment, project requirements, subcontracted purchase orders, safety stock levels and
stock requisitions.
MRP provides excellent multi-level pegging to
the source of demand and identifies pegs and
retains stock allocation and stock ownership of
customers and projects during its projectedavailable and balancing process.
It has the ability to perform discrete contractand project planning where contracts and
projects have specific bills of material, routings,
make/buy decisions, customer furnished item
requirements and sourcing rules. It provides
dynamic workbenches for materials planners,
production planners and buyers to analyse
supply and demand, to act on order release and
rescheduling and to meet inventory turnover
goals and minimize excess stock and
obsolescence. MRP provides for multiple what-if
simulations and MRP runs can be executed realtime in normal working hours.
Some special features of Qmuzik MRP are:
> Real-time – Qmuzik supply chain activities
constantly informs planners and buyers of
unplanned events via mail prompts. These
events may include stock adjustments, scrap,
quarantine, new sales demand, engineering
changes and others that may drastically
cause an imbalance in supply and demand
and threaten cost- and delivery targets. The
MRP tools provide real-time, online MRP runs
(for selective parts or Global) to be
performed to immediately analyse the
impact and the actions to be launched as
required.
 Discrete project planning– Qmuzik ERP allows
for the specifying of contract- and project
specific rules, priorities and tactics. These may
extend to contract-specific bills of material,
routings, make-buy decisions, substitution
rules, QA and test piece requirements,
customer furnished items per contract, and
sourcing rules enforcing the use of customer
approved suppliers or OEM suppliers only and
many others.
MRP identifies these contract requirements and
engineering baselines and plans discrete
replenishments in order to adhere to such rules. It
also applies the stock-commingling rules that
govern the extent to which stock can be shared
with other contracts and projects.
For projects it can further identify the specific
project element in a project WBS on a
replenishment order as a result of mapping the
project WBS into the Bill of material hardware
structure. This ensures that project ownership can
thus be protected once items are received into
stock.
Qmuzik Technologies (Pty) Ltd l Trentbridge Office Park, c/o Von Willich Ave & Leonie St, Centurion
012 640 3500
012 640 3511
info@qmuzik.com
www.qmuzik.com
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Material Requirements
Planning
This further extends to contract-specific bills of
material and routings with excellent options to
base the timing of engineering changes either
on effective dates or on end-item serial
numbers. The latter provides the ultimate solution
since it is not influenced by the rescheduling of
demand or supply.
Although these simulations are normally
performed on a separate database, it can also
be performed real-time on the production
database, which will then yield special action
messages, which planners and buyers can
recognize as being the result of a simulation and
is not to be acted upon.
These abilities escalate the Qmuzik MRP tool to
being so much more than a mere planning tool
that balances supply and demand.
> Order operations and shop floor load– Qmuzik
ERP provides the option to auto-create order
operations for planned replenishment orders
within a specified horizon. This provides future
visibility of shop floor load versus shop floor
capacity and thus allows advance planning
to reschedule, to increase capacity or to time
the downtime of machinery and equipment
for maintenance or upgrades.
MAIN MRP RUN SELECTION SCREEN
> Order splitting and auto-release – Qmuzik
MRP makes extensive provision for Supplier
catalogues which also accommodates prenegotiated pricing with your suppliers where
the negotiated terms and conditions, lot
sizing rules, lead-time, data-based prices and
discount per item can be specified. Where
contracts
were
negotiated
as
such,
automatic call-off against the contract can
be made by MRP with recognition of the
predefined preferences and via the autoreleasing of orders to a supplier. Settings also
allow for the auto-splitting of planned
purchase orders between suppliers as per
user-defined ratios and preferences.
> Work benches– Qmuzik ERP provides multiple
workbenches in all areas of the supply chain
(Procurement, Production, Sales, Maintenance, Engineering) to analyse inventory,
to identify and act on planned order
releases, rescheduling, cancellation of excess
on order, as well as detailed and graphical
supply and demand analysis. This includes
shortage checking, identification of standard
items and substitute items that may be
applied, shelf life expiry details and extension
options, quality - and quarantine analysis and
many more.
> Simulation capability – Qmuzik ERP allows for
multiple simulation scenarios. These may serve
the purpose to assist in quotes and deliver-topromise analysis, to test forecast feasibility in
terms of material availability and shop floor
capacity, to analyse the impact of contract
cancellations, supply interruptions, major
engineering changes or new product
releases.
Qmuzik Technologies (Pty) Ltd l Trentbridge Office Park, c/o Von Willich Ave & Leonie St, Centurion
012 640 3500
012 640 3511
info@qmuzik.com
www.qmuzik.com
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