Material requirements planning (MRP) systems have been widely used by manufacturing companies to keep an optimum flow of input signals for the best production results. By using an MRP system, a business can prepare a generation strategy which defines the variety of subassemblies that go into the final products along with the exact timeline of an order, from placement to completion. This case analyzes how Sunita Menon's adoption of an MRP system at A-CAT Corp. (A-CAT) has improved the production-planning procedure.
Material Requirements Planning at A-Cat Corp. Case Study Solution
To make one unit of A- CAT's main product, P0110, requires two P0Y units and two P0X units; in addition, each P0X component wants two forms of subparts: four P1X1 units and three P1X2 units. The case analyzes the intricacies of processing, warehousing and procurement costs of various material parts by critically appraising different techniques in practice. Using situational scenarios, the case presents lot-sizing techniques - including lot for economic order quantity, lot, least total cost and least unit cost - for balancing costs for example set-up costs, ordering costs and inventory-holding costs.
PUBLICATION DATE: April 11, 2012 PRODUCT #: W12868-PDF-ENG
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