A complete revision of the industry-standard book on materials requirements standards for manufacturing

This thoroughly revised guide offers the current and next generation of supply chain professionals a clear explanation of the fundamentals of planning and MRP systems in today's volatile and complex supply chains. Long considered the industry standard, Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning is an indispensable tool for manufacturing practitioners and candidates preparing for certification exams including CPIM, CSCP, DDPP and MRPFP.

Streamlined and reorganized, this fourth edition brings clarity and focus to the prerequisites, choices, inputs, outputs, latest techniques and challenges associated with modern MRP systems across a variety of industries including project, custom, batch, repetitive and continuous process manufacturers. Included is the latest evolution of MRP logic including the increasingly popular DDMRP derivative and its components.

Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning, Fourth Edition covers:

• The history and context of planning
• The true purpose of planning
• Product structure data
• Inventory data
• The demand data input
• MRP processing logic
• MRP inputs, outputs, decision, and the user experience
• MRP applied to different industries
• Fixing planning in the VUCA world
• DDMRP approach and configuration
• DDMRP planning and execution
• Adapting and completing the DDMRP model
• And much more