Development of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Software with C Language
Now a day’s a number of manufacturing firms in developing countries do not practice affordable, efficient and user friendly inventory management tools which has been identified as a major cause of high inventory cost for adequate planning. This study focuses on the development of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) software with programming language C that can be used by the local industries for inventory management in a job shop manufacturing environment. An algorithm has been developed to understand the MRP processing logic. A manual method of calculation to solve MRP problem has also been shown. Evaluation tests of the software were carried out using various products ranging from those with simple structure of single product to complex structure. The software was shown to be user friendly and allow for easy data input and output to be saved and retrieved for future planning. The input process of the software has been shown step by step. The output of the program shows the time-phased requirements for assemblies, parts and raw materials as well as the missing deliveries and time required to meet the missing deliveries.
