Orlicky's Material Requirements Planning, Fourth Edition

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