Supply Planning with MRP, DRP and APS Software

This books focuses on the five non-MIEO methods of supply planning, MRP/DRP, heuristics, allocation, and cost optimization. (MEIO is covered in the companion book). As with all SCM Focus books, it is written by and targeted at practitioners, the book specifically explains how each of the methods work. It also delineates the differences between them, as well as providing the history of their development and what approaches have been found to work in implementing each method over time. The book also covers areas such as bill of material management and master data management that are necessary to properly implement any supply planning system. It is the only supply planning book currently available which provides a comparative analysis of supply planning concepts with different applications. This includes many screen shots and descriptions of how the screens are configured and used. This provides the reader with some of the most interesting areas of functionality within a variety of applications.