What is Demand Driven MRP?
Demand driven planning removes tentative demand from your action plan and uses strategic stocking of critical items to reduce manufactured item lead times and time to shipment. DBA pioneered the demand driven approach for small business by providing a common sense method to achieve rapid time to shipment with efficient utilization of inventory.
Core DBA innovations include time to shipment planning for sales order required dates, strategic demand driven stocking, demand driven jobs and purchase orders, job release with allocated materials, job prioritization for balanced production flow, late supply feedback, and order picking/shipping with allocated priority.
Benefits
✓Keeps you competitive with faster times to shipment
✓Works for any type of manufacturing or size of company
✓Logical item settings drive all manufacturing activities
✓Demand driven inventory minimizes shortages and over-stocking
✓Generates consistent and reliable sales order ship dates
✓Generates demand-driven jobs and purchase orders in response to firm demand
✓System target dates are self-adjusting without need for manual intervention
✓Jobs are released to production in the correct order of assembly
✓Job prioritization evens production flow to boost shop throughput
✓Late Supply updates progress on the manufactured items you sell
✓The Picking Manager ensures on time shipments in priority order
Features
Item MRP Settings
✓Ship dates are established by Time to Shipment target calculated from underlying item settings
✓Jobs are backward scheduled from required dates by the Job Days allocation for production time
✓Job start dates cover calculated pre-Job Lead Days needed for to order components
✓PO due dates are established by the Lead Days allocation for planned procurement time
✓The Order Policy determines whether an item is planned to order or for stocking
✓Reorder Point calculated from a Potential Monthly Demand triggers stock replenishment
✓Min Order quantity calculated from planned Supply Days interval establishes order quantities and frequency
✓Item Review Note handle special planning requirements during MRP sessions
Sales Order Required Dates
✓Time to Shipment targets establish sales order line item required dates that drive MRP
✓All settings that contribute to your SO Required Dates are completely transparent to all workers
✓You will have a clear action plan on how to improve your Time to Shipment competitiveness
Job and Purchase Order Generation
✓Custom to order jobs generated directly from sales order lines
✓Demand driven job and PO generation within the auto-generated item planning period action windows
✓MRP action windows ensure that you are always acting on firm demand
✓Interdependent demand consolidated into single jobs and purchase orders
✓Supplier, supplier price, and manufacturer part number can be changed during PO generation
Job Release
✓Allocates on hand materials to new status jobs in planned start date order
✓Jobs are released to live production when allocated materials become available
✓Job finish dates are rescheduled when jobs are released to production
Job Prioritization
✓Each job is prioritized based on remaining production time relative to its required date
✓Work center queues are run by job priority to even out production flow and boost shop throughput
✓Job labor is updated in real time as job sequences are completed
Late Supply
✓Receive immediate feedback when the Finish Date for a for-sale dependent job is greater than the SO line item Required Date
✓This eliminates the need for constant communication between the office and the shop regarding job progress
✓The office staff can update the SO line Expected Ship Date and notify the customer if necessary
Picking Manager
✓Stock on hand is allocated to all open SO lines in Required Date order
✓Provides a company wide view of all sales order lines that are ready to ship
✓Eliminates the need for material hording and excessive reliance on job linking
