MANUFACTURING GLOSSARY / MRP
MRP: Material requirements planning
MRP is a time-phased calculation that uses demand, bills of material, inventory, open supply, and lead-time assumptions to suggest what to make or buy and when.
What it means in manufacturing
MRP focuses on dependent material demand. It does not by itself prove that machines, people, tooling, or other resources can execute the proposed dates.
A question to use in evaluation
Are on-hand, reserved, on-order, held, and substituted quantities represented consistently, and who owns each planning assumption?
Keep the label and the evidence separate
Category terms describe a type of work; they do not establish what a specific software release, configuration, integration, or customer process can do. Test the proposed boundary with representative records, responsible owners, failure cases, and written acceptance criteria.
Your next step
Test the definition against your operation.
Use a real workflow to determine where the record lives, who decides, and what evidence the proposed scope must retain.