Material Requirements Planning & Distribution Requirements Planning Mistakes and Best Practices
This one-hour webinar will cover 23 very common (and very avoidable) supply chain mistakes. We will cover two categories: distribution requirements planning (DRP) mistakes and material requirements planning (MRP) mistakes. This webinar will discuss how to avoid them to gain significant competitive advantages.
Title: 23 Common (and Critical) DRP and MRP Mistakes and How to Avoid Them
Date: Thursday, August 29, 2013
Time: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM PDT
Distributors and manufacturers have a very hard job balancing supply and demand; despite their best efforts, they often make mistakes when analyzing their supply and demand to determine what they need to buy (or make), when, and how much. These seem like relatively simple questions to answer, but complex bills of material, capacity constraints, and quality issues from vendors or manufacturing, outsourced activities, demand forecasts, and other factors can wreak havoc on even the best-laid plans.
Material Requirements Planning and Distribution Requirements Planning critical mistakes fall under the following categories:
- Supply mistakes
- Date mistakes
- Forecast mistakes
- Quantity mistakes
- Resource mistakes
Some DRM and MRP mistakes can’t be avoided but some can be avoided. This webinar will discuss critical mistakes made and best practices to help you avoid them starting today.
