MRP / SMALL MANUFACTURING
Job-Shop MRP Software Requirements Guide
Define practical MRP software requirements for make-to-order and mixed-mode manufacturers before comparing vendors, subscriptions or implementation proposals.
Production model
- Document whether work is make-to-order, make-to-stock, engineer-to-order or mixed-mode before evaluating software.
- Require routing, work-center, setup, run-time and outside-processing data structures that match the real production flow.
- Define how substitutions, scrap, rework and partial completions are represented rather than relying on a clean-demo process.
Planning and inventory
- Verify material requirements, purchase suggestions and shortage visibility against realistic bills of material and lead times.
- Define lot, serial and revision traceability requirements before importing inventory.
- Test how capacity constraints, due dates and priority changes propagate into purchasing and production plans.
Integration and acceptance
- Map ownership of customer, item, routing, inventory, quality and financial data across ERP, MRP, MES, accounting and shop-floor systems.
- Run a pilot using representative orders and actual master data, not only vendor sample data.
- Define measurable acceptance criteria such as schedule adherence, inventory accuracy, planner effort and transaction completeness.
Professional references
These references establish the standards, technical framework or authoritative engineering context used for this page. Vendor commercial terms are not used as engineering evidence.
- ISA-95 / IEC 62264 Enterprise-Control System Integration — Reference architecture for integrating enterprise and manufacturing operations systems.
- NIST Smart Manufacturing Systems Test Bed — NIST reference environment for manufacturing information, models and system integration.
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