Demand Is Disconnected From Supply
Connect customer orders, forecasts, stock targets, and production plans.
AnyDB for Material Requirements Planning
Plan Materials With Confidence, From Demand to Production
Calculate what materials you need, how much you need, and when they must be available by connecting demand, bills of materials, inventory, purchasing, lead times, and production orders.
Start with ready-to-use manufacturing objects from the AnyDB Business Object Library, then customize the MRP system around the way your company plans and produces.
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MRP PlanDemand · Supply · Dates · Priorities
DemandOrders, forecasts, and targets
BOMs & RecipesComponents, quantities, and yield
Inventory PositionOn hand, allocated, and incoming
Purchase OrdersSuppliers, lead times, and receipts
Production OrdersSchedule, materials, and status
Inventory MovementsConsumption, WIP, and output
Demand Planning
BOM Explosion
Purchasing
Production Scheduling
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Replace disconnected demand, BOM, inventory, purchasing, and production data with one current plan.
BOMs Live in Separate Files
Keep multi-level BOMs, recipes, components, quantities, units, and revisions structured.
Shortages Are Found Too Late
Calculate net requirements against on-hand, allocated, and incoming inventory.
Purchasing Is Not Tied to Requirements
Plan orders using shortages, supplier lead times, reorder points, and required dates.
Production Priorities Keep Changing
Give planners and production teams a shared schedule with current material readiness.
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Use ready-to-use manufacturing objects or customize the system around your products, BOMs, locations, lead times, production modes, and planning process.
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Plan Demand and Production
Bring orders, forecasts, stock targets, and production priorities into one plan.
2Calculate Material Requirements
Explode BOMs and calculate gross and net requirements across every level.
3Plan Supply and Purchasing
Turn shortages and required dates into purchasing and replenishment work.
4Schedule and Run Production
Coordinate production orders, material readiness, consumption, WIP, and output.
5Customize Your MRP System
Adapt records, calculations, workflows, permissions, and views to your operation.
Top AnyDB Material Requirements Planning Features
Connect demand, BOMs, inventory, purchasing, and production in a planning system that fits your operation.
Demand and Master Production Planning
Plan from customer orders, forecasts, stock targets, and make-to-order or make-to-stock requirements.
Multi-Level BOMs and Recipes
Structure components, subassemblies, quantities, units, yields, revisions, and instructions.
Net Requirements and Shortages
Compare gross demand with on-hand, allocated, expected, and safety stock to identify what is missing.
Purchasing and Lead-Time Planning
Connect shortages with suppliers, reorder points, purchase orders, required dates, and partial receipts.
Production Scheduling and Execution
Coordinate production orders, material readiness, priorities, consumption, WIP, output, and status.
1Demand and Production Planning
Build One Current Plan From Every Demand Signal
Connect confirmed orders, forecasts, internal demand, and stock targets. Plan make-to-order or make-to-stock production and keep priorities visible as demand changes.
Demand and Production Plan
1Demand signals collected
2Required finished goods calculated
3Available finished stock considered
4Production priorities and dates set
What you can manage
✓Demand Sources
Connect sales orders, forecasts, internal requests, and minimum stock targets.
✓Master Production Schedule
Plan what to produce, in what quantity, and by which date.
✓Planning Modes
Support make-to-order, make-to-stock, recurring, or mixed production models.
2Material Requirements Planning
Calculate What Must Be Purchased or Produced
Explode multi-level BOMs and recipes, calculate gross requirements, then subtract usable and incoming supply to identify net requirements and shortage dates.
Net Requirements Plan
1Demand converted into gross requirements
2Multi-level BOMs exploded
3On-hand, allocated, and incoming supply checked
4Net shortages and required dates produced
What you can manage
✓BOMs and Subassemblies
Connect finished products with components, subassemblies, packaging, quantities, units, revisions, and yields.
✓Inventory Position
Evaluate on-hand, reserved, allocated, expected, safety stock, and location-specific availability.
✓Net Requirements
Calculate what must be purchased, transferred, or produced, including the date it is needed.
3Supply and Purchasing Planning
Connect Every Shortage to a Supply Action
Translate net requirements into purchase, transfer, or production recommendations using suppliers, lead times, reorder points, order quantities, and required dates.
Supply Plan
1Shortage reviewed
2Supply source and lead time checked
3Purchase or transfer order created
4Full or partial receipt recorded
What you can manage
✓Purchase Recommendations
Group requirements by supplier, due date, item, or production need.
✓Purchase Orders
Track requested quantities, supplier confirmations, expected dates, costs, and status.
✓Receiving
Record complete or partial receipts, inspections, lot details, and inventory availability.
4Production Scheduling and Execution
Keep the Schedule Connected to Material Readiness
Create production orders with planned quantities, BOM revisions, operations, dates, priorities, owners, and locations. Track issues, consumption, WIP, and completed output.
Production Schedule
1Production order scheduled
2Materials reserved and picked
3Actual consumption and progress recorded
4Output received into inventory
What you can manage
✓Production Orders
Plan products, quantities, due dates, priorities, locations, and responsible teams.
✓Material Readiness
Reserve components and show whether each order can start with current and expected stock.
✓Actual Production
Record consumption, scrap, substitutions, labor or operations, WIP, and finished quantities.
5Custom Material Requirements Planning
Build MRP Around the Way Your Company Operates
Adapt demand, BOMs, planning logic, inventory states, supplier rules, production workflows, documents, permissions, and reporting to your terminology and process.
Your MRP Structure
1Demand connected to BOMs
2Requirements and shortages calculated
3Supply and production actions coordinated
4Actual results improve the next plan
What you can manage
✓Custom Planning Logic
Define fields, formulas, lead-time rules, safety stock, yields, lot sizes, and planning horizons.
✓Custom Workflows and Automations
Create shortage alerts, approvals, assignments, purchase actions, and production updates.
✓Connected Manufacturing Operations
Connect planning with purchasing, warehouse, production, quality, fulfillment, and accounting preparation.
From Product Demand to Finished Goods
Each production or repair job becomes the central record for specifications, materials, stages, time, resources, quality, costs, decisions, and history.
✓See Production Status Clearly
Keep jobs, stages, owners, dependencies, progress, deadlines, and delays visible.
✓Compare Plan and Actual
Review planned and actual time, completion dates, material use, and cost.
✓Track Job-Level Usage
Connect labor, machine time, material consumption, services, and scrap to each job.
✓Align Operational Teams
Give engineering, purchasing, production, quality, and service shared records.
✓Adapt the Process
Add routes, records, fields, rules, portals, views, and dashboards as requirements change.
Core MRP Records Working Together
Use connected records across production, repair, quality, resource, and cost workflows.
Manufacturing Order
Product, quantity, specifications, stages, deadlines, owners, materials, costs, and status.
Production Stage
Sequence, dependency, team, target, actual completion, progress, evidence, and history.
Time Entry
Job, stage, person, machine, planned hours, actual hours, date, notes, and cost.
Material Usage
Item, required quantity, availability, allocation, consumption, scrap, source, and cost.
Verification Record
Requirement, measurement, result, evidence, reviewer, decision, approval, and release.
Service Record
Asset, issue, diagnosis, repair steps, parts, labor, testing, outcome, and history.
Generate Documents Directly From Live Manufacturing Records
Turn AnyDB records into professional PDFs, DOCX files, and XLSX exports with fields, linked data, tables, terms, and other relevant information included automatically.
Use Current Production Data
Pull orders, stages, materials, time, costs, quality results, and linked information into reusable templates.
Generate Consistent Documents
Create work orders, route sheets, build records, inspection reports, repair reports, and job summaries.
Download or Share
Provide ready-to-use documents to production teams, customers, suppliers, and auditors.
How Material Requirements Planning Works in Practice
Planning stays current as demand, supply, inventory, purchasing, and production records change.
Collect Demand
Bring together customer orders, forecasts, stock targets, required quantities, and due dates.
Calculate Requirements
Explode BOMs, check available and incoming supply, and identify net shortages by date.
Plan Supply
Create purchase, transfer, or production actions using lead times and required dates.
Execute Production
Reserve and pick materials, track progress, and record actual consumption, scrap, and WIP.
Receive Output and Replan
Add completed goods to inventory and use actual receipts and movements to refresh the plan.
Give Every Team the Manufacturing View It Needs
Use the same production information to create focused views for sales, purchasing, warehouse, production, and management.
Sales View
See orders, product availability, production needs, and expected readiness.
Purchasing View
Review shortages, suppliers, purchase orders, and expected receipts.
Warehouse View
Track raw materials, production issues, finished goods, and movements.
Production View
See batches, recipes, requirements, dates, and priorities.
Management View
Monitor demand, shortages, output, wastage, and dispatch readiness.
Automate Material Planning and Production Follow-Up
Set automations to evaluate manufacturing conditions and trigger the appropriate next actions.
Create Production Requirements
Generate production records from demand or stock conditions.
Identify Shortages
Alert purchasing when requirements exceed available stock.
Assign Batch Work
Assign production or review work based on the batch stage.
Update Inventory
Record movements as materials are consumed and products completed.
Notify the Next Team
Alert the next team when production moves forward or needs attention.
Connect MRP With Inventory, Purchasing, and Production
Keep planning connected to the operational records that continually change supply and demand.
Inventory and Warehousing
Track raw materials, WIP, finished goods, locations, reservations, transfers, counts, and adjustments.
Purchasing and Suppliers
Link net requirements with suppliers, lead times, purchase orders, expected dates, and receipts.
Lot and Quality Traceability
Connect receipts and production with lots, serials, expiry dates, inspections, certificates, and release status.
Sales and Fulfillment
Connect finished-goods demand with reservations, picking, shipping, returns, and delivery status.
Cost and Accounting Preparation
Bring material, purchasing, production, inventory, and fulfillment records together for costing and accounting.
Operational Benefits
Improve production visibility, compare planned and actual performance, track job-level usage, align teams, and support better capacity and pricing decisions.
Clear Production Status
Keep active jobs, stages, owners, dependencies, progress, and deadlines visible.
Planned Versus Actual Performance
Compare estimated and actual time, completion, usage, and cost.
Job-Level Resource Tracking
Tie labor, machines, materials, services, and scrap to each job.
Connected Quality Evidence
Maintain approved instructions, checks, results, issues, decisions, and release history.
Better Capacity and Pricing Decisions
Use real production data to improve scheduling, costing, quoting, and planning.
Replace Planning Spreadsheets and Manual MRP Calculations
Keep demand, BOMs, inventory, purchasing, production, and actual movements in one connected planning system.
Instead ofUse AnyDB
Demand copied between spreadsheetsConnected orders, forecasts, and stock targets
BOMs maintained in separate filesStructured multi-level BOM and recipe records
Requirements calculated manuallyAutomated gross and net requirement calculations
Stock checked across multiple systemsOn-hand, allocated, expected, and available quantities
Purchasing planned independentlyShortages connected to lead times, suppliers, and POs
Production scheduled without material statusOrders prioritized with material-readiness visibility
Consumption and output updated laterActual production movements connected to every order
Status collected manuallyFocused views, dashboards, alerts, and history
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