Fidar Manufacturing & MRP starts from the bill of materials and routing, calculates material requirements from orders and forecasts, proposes purchase and work orders — and finally puts each product’s actual cost next to its standard cost. The module is on the roadmap.
On the roadmap · designed for make-to-order, mass and process manufacturing
This module is in development. What you read on this page is our design and plan for this module, not something you can use today. We publish its schedule and status on the roadmap.
Problem and solution
Every week the planner merges sales and inventory files to work out what to make and what to buy. By the time the file is ready, orders have changed and the line is waiting for a cheap missing part.
A work order starts and stalls because one component hasn’t arrived.
MRP compares requirements at every BOM level with stock, open orders and lead times, and shows shortages before production starts.
Engineering changed the BOM, but production and purchasing still use the old one.
Versioned BOMs with validity dates; every work order locks the version it was built from.
Orders are accepted without knowing whether work centres have free capacity.
Routings with work centres and standard times, plus finite-capacity planning to expose bottlenecks.
Prices are based on estimates nobody has updated in years.
Actual material use, work-centre time and scrap are recorded and compared with standard cost on every work order.
Capabilities
MRP output is only as reliable as your BOMs and lead times. Before rollout, review the main products’ BOMs with production and engineering and record realistic scrap allowances.
Take each material’s lead time from purchase history, not the supplier’s promise. With optimistic lead times, MRP flags shortages too late.
Pilot on one line or product family. When MRP proposals have matched the planner’s decisions for a few weeks, widen the scope.
Set routings and standard operation times from real time studies, not old estimates. Capacity planning with unrealistic times points to the wrong bottleneck.
Document chain
Every work order is linked to the order or plan that created it, and its cost is traceable to the journal entry.
Demand for the finished product with a due date.
Shortages and buy or make proposals.
Material use and work-centre time.
Finished product at actual cost.
Integration
Manufacturing in Fidar isn’t an island: demand comes from sales, materials from inventory and purchasing, and product cost flows to accounting — all on one dataset in one document chain.
For shop-floor capabilities such as OEE and SPC, see MES & Quality.
Reports
Planners, production managers and controllers each get their own view.
Access
Planners, line supervisors and operators each see exactly what their job requires.
Security and user accessBuilt for
Each order with its own BOM and routing.
Planning from forecasts and reorder points.
Formulas, dual units and co-products.
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MRP — material requirements planning — calculates which materials are needed, how much and by when, so the production plan can run. See the glossary and our guide to ERP for manufacturing.
Manufacturing is on the roadmap after Accounting, Purchasing and Inventory, because it depends on stock and costing data.
MRP plans materials only; MRP II also considers machine capacity, labour and finance. Fidar’s design covers both. More in what is MRP II.
Yes. Formulas, dual units (units and kilograms) and co- and by-products are part of the design.
Those capabilities are designed in the separate MES & Quality module, which builds on Manufacturing.
From actual material use, recorded work-centre time at each centre’s rate and absorbed overhead — shown against standard cost with variance analysis.
Shop-floor control, live OEE, SPC and batch genealogy.
Multi-warehouse, lots and serials, cycle counts and putaway.
Purchase requests, RFQs, orders and goods receipt.
Quotations, orders, tiered discounts and field-sales routes.
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