MRPⅡ (Manufacturing Resources Planning) is proposed by an American management expert Oliver Wight in 1977. The main difference between MRPⅡ and traditional MRP is that MRPⅡ illustrates benefits from materials planning in monetary form to integrate financial information with material information.
Here are six outstanding features of MRPⅡ:
1. Consistency and enforceability of plan
MRPⅡ is a plan-led management with several planning levels from macro to micro, from strategy to technology, from coarse to fine and from abstract to the concrete layer optimization, to ensure the plan is always consistent with the business strategy.
2. Systematic management
MRPⅡ is a systematic project, which links all departments which are directly related to production and management together to build Integrated System.
3. Data Sharing
MRP Ⅱ is an enterprise-class management information system. Every department shares the same data to do management and every kind of data can be reflected to each department to achieve data sharing.
4. Dynamic adaptability
MRPⅡ is a closed-loop system which requires timely track, control and feedback of the actual situation of information changes. MRPⅡ allows enterprise to grasp the dynamics information to maintain a shorter production cycle, strong resilience and adaptability as well.
5. Simulation predictability
MRPⅡ has a budget predicting function, which can expect potential problems within the longtime plan period. It helps enterprise take measures in advance to eliminate hidden dangers. MRPⅡ also offers a number of possible options for making policy.
6. Unification of Logistics flow and capital flow
MPPⅡ combines traditional financial transaction processing with the cause of the financial transaction, which not only shows the financial status of funds but can trace the origin of funds.
MRPⅡ is a relatively complete production and management plan system, which is the overall and effective business management to get benefits for enterprise.
posted by ERP System, ERP Applications, ERP Software