Extensions of MRP
In this section, we review three extensions of MRP.
Material Requirements Planning II (MRP II)
Material requirements planning II is an extremely powerful technique. Once a firm has MRP in place, requirements data can be enriched by resources other than just components. When MRP is used this way, resource is usually substituted for requirements, and MRP becomes MRP II. It then stands for material resource planning.
So far in our discussion of MRP, we have scheduled products and their components. However, products require many ...
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