Glossary

What Is MRP in ERP?

Material Requirements Planning (MRP) calculates what materials are needed, when they are needed, and in what quantities.

Plan adherence rateMaterial shortage incidentsPlanner exception backlog

Operational impact

MRP supports production scheduling, procurement timing, and inventory planning for manufacturing teams.

A shared ERP vocabulary reduces translation errors between operations, finance, and technical stakeholders during implementation. Artifact is designed to reduce handoff overhead between business requirements and deployed workflows.

Common questions

What data quality issues break MRP outcomes?

Inaccurate BOMs, stale lead times, and unreliable inventory records. Fix those three things first — no planning algorithm compensates for bad input data.

How does MRP connect to purchasing workflows?

MRP generates demand signals with timing and quantity. Those signals should feed directly into your approval and PO workflows to maintain execution discipline without manual handoffs.

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