Article,
Performance Improvement of an Industry by using MRP Software
International Journal on Recent and Innovation Trends in Computing and Communication, 3 (4): 2007--2015 (April 2015)
DOI: 10.17762/ijritcc2321-8169.150453
Abstract
This industry is only based upon the price level of items; they do not have any proper inventory status. This results into either too much of stock or sometimes stock out conditions. Hence need of scientific approach and mathematical modelling of process is there. Online information regarding the inventory status cannot be observed. The in-house transactions that take place for the particular section are very complicated. Thus it results into improper ordering and scheduling process. The forecasting procedure presently followed is manual. So every time large number of calculations has to be done. This makes the process complicated and time consuming &also unavoidable manual errors in calculations may hamper the method. The methodology used in developing the proposed MRP software adopts the following components namely a) Problem analysis b) Software algorithm c) Software input d) Software output. In Problem analysis it is useful to form a bill of material & it is convenient to order the items by levels. The level of an item is the maximum number of stages of assembly required to get the item into an end product. If a specific final item named ‘A’ for a manufacturing firm. In software algorithm structure has been used to declare the variables of each item (item ID, item name, inventory level, lead time, number of item needed for each upper item, upper item ID, Number of lower item etc). Input the total number of level and information of each item (bill of materials). Input the total number of deliveries and timing & required quantity of final item for each delivery which Show the output of MRP that is the time-phased requirements for assemblies, parts and raw materials. Show the final inventory level of all items.
