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Alpha MRP - for those wanting to solve their daily manufacturing challenges -- But Can't Get Started...

Over the last 30 years throughout the manufacturing industries, using computer systems to support business processes have become widespread. During this period, computer systems for basic material requirement planning, have quickly evolved to today's sophisticated extended integrated enterprise package that operates under client-server architecture.

As new computer technology pressures industry to update and overhaul information systems and as companies continue to seek ways to improve their overall performance, computer MRP software applications to support manufacturing have developed rapidly in recent years.

What Is MRP Software System?

In the 1960s, relatively simple materials requirement planning - MRP Software systems were first introduced. As the power of computer technology continued to increase, more modules were added to integrate other organizational and business functions into MRP software.

Today many organizations are either upgrading and maintaining their current Manufacturing Resource Planning (MRP II) System or installing new client-server systems to their organization. Known as ERP, these typically require large financial investment, change management, organizational training, business process re-engineering as well as adapting to new technology.

Advantages of MRP Software:

• Improved customer service
• Sales price can be reduced
• Ability to change the master schedule
• Ability to make products more competitively
• Better response to market demands
• Significant reduction in setup and tear-down costs
• Reduction in idle time
• Reduce inventory
• Much more...

Other benefits of an MRP software include:

• Before actual release orders, an MRP System gives advance notice so managers can see the planned schedule
• The ability to advance or delay order due dates
• MRP System aids capacity planning
• The ability to cancel or delay orders
• The ability to change or modify order quantities
• The system will tell when to expedite as well as when to de-expedite

Reasons why companies need an MRP software:

• The opportunity to see the company as one unit, since the system is integrated.
• The strategic possibility to rationalize and gain better control of your company’s information flow.
• With MRP software, an organization will have better control of your business processes. From being able to monitor your company’s information one at a time, to the complete integrated details of a company’s entire information flows with one single system.
• The old system could not be developed or it would be too expensive to develop further, in order to support the company’s process.
• To reduce the maintenance cost of the information system environment by replacing several old systems with a single new one. This replacement also reduces the dependencies of a few key users.

Manufacturing Resource Planning System - Web Based Systems versus Client-Server

Client-Server Applications:

The traditional client-server manufacturing resource planning (MRP) applications are form-based designs and modification or changes made to the application will involve the business logic or the data. Also changes will have to be made to the clients applications as well. As a result any change in the application will require the new application to be installed on the server and every single user in the network. Modifications will be very expensive if at all feasible and takes lots of time.

Being a form-based application, integrating to the web is possible but does require the addition and use of expensive interface software and extensive configuration.

100% Web Based Alpha ERP Software:

On the other hand, web based Manufacturing Resource Planning - MRP Software being 100% web based, is capable of delivering results at a fraction of the cost compared to traditional ERP system. Implementation time is shortened tremendously as the system is designed to be 100% web based from ground up. Unlike the big names of ERP, Alpha ERP is easy to implement and does not require an army of consultants to implement. This alone will save companies lots of money and time.

Being 100% web based, means users can logon anywhere in the world and access the same data 24/7 without any client side software installation. Instead any compatible browser like IE Explorer 5 is all that is required. In terms of support, 60 to 70%, can be provided off-site, again a big money saver.