ERP has its origins in MRP, which has been in business practice from the 1970s. The driver from MRP to ERP has been the application of information technology which served to make MRP an essential manufacturing business tool, in turn Read More …
Day: February 26, 2022
Defining ERP
Enterprise Resource Planning is the practice of consolidating an enterprises planning, manufacturing, logistics, supply chain, sales and marketing efforts into one management system. To integrate systems across an organization is a tall order. Each department has its own system designed Read More …
Distribution Requirement Planning (DRP)
Distribution Requirements planning is an inventory control and scheduling technique that applies MRP principles to distribution inventories. It may also be regarded as a method of handling stock replenishment in multi-echelon environment. An echelon is defined as „A stepwise arrangement Read More …
Materials Requirements Planning (MRP)
Materials requirements planning (MRP) developed during the 1970s but is equally applicable today. It operates as an integrated information management, production planning and stock management system that has been enhanced in practicality in recent years as the speed and power Read More …
EXAMPLES OF SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEMS
Management Information Systems(MIS) Management information is data collected (often in the transaction processing systems of the organization), processed and formatted in such a way as to be useful to managers to aid them in planning, control and decision-making. Management information Read More …
DEFINITION OF KEY TERMS USED IN SUPPLY CHAIN AUTOMATION
Advanced Planning and Scheduling (APS) – Advanced planning and scheduling (APS) is a type of system that tracks costs based on the activities that are responsible for driving costs in the production of manufactured goods. An APS allocates raw materials Read More …