MANUFACTURING RESOURCE PLANNING - MRP II
A computer-based information system used by business to integrate planning of all aspects of a manufacturing firm. Successor to the Materials Requirement Planning (MRP), it included additional data like employee and financial needs. It is designed to centralize, assimilate, and process information to make effective decisions in cost control, design engineering, inventory management, and scheduling in manufacturing. Also, it acts as a module of more comprehensive enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems.
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