CHAPTER 6
Reshuffling MRP to Align with Kanban and Lean
DUANE JONES HAS WORKED WITH FOUR DIFFERENT MRP systems over the last fifteen years and has reviewed twenty more. In the process, he has found that on any given day, the acronym “MRP” means different things to different people. The exact meaning of an MRP system, apparently, is a little nebulous, and those people who use the system have their own unique interpretation of its nature and function. This book, for example, defines MRP in light of how Lantech has used it.
By now, the reader has a good understanding of an ERP system as an integrated computerized set of operations that ideally include every facet of every operation a company performs. MRP is usually a subset within the ERP system, ...
