There is not a huge difference between Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP) and its second iteration known as MRP II. Each system was designed to help ensure businesses have the right balance of ...

Material requirements planning systems add a level of automation to inventory control. When you set minimum and maximum stock levels on a simple inventory, you are beginning to use MRP principles. MRP ...

Lots of ERP systems boast support for serialization, but the problem is that, as far as we've seen, that serial number support extends to just "these serial numbers exist", or if you're really lucky ...

I’ve been working with several of my New York Institute of Technology MBA students in various practicums I’ve setup. I’m finding a lot of them have extensive backgrounds and studies in supply chain ...