MRP is an essential tool in running the modern manufacturing organisation.

• Designed to automatically generate works orders and purchase orders from sales requirements both actual and forecasted.
  
  
• Companies making own products use part re-order levels or forecasted sales to raise orders.

MRP can be run on individual orders or assemblies or simply on all requirements.

For make to order environments with detailed planning there are:

1. sophisticated part statuses to prevent unplanned parts from being MRP'd
   
   
2. Triggers to highlight parts and assemblies that need planning.
   
   
3. The ability to plan material immediately and leave routes to later

Order entry

E-MAX RM6 contains a particularly powerful sales order processing module. Designed to handle one off or scheduled repeat orders, the software gives the planners an instant view of the number of items that have to be purchased or manufactured.

Companies that occasionally act as agents benefit from the facility to create new items "on the fly" and then automatically raise purchase requisitions.

Delivery notes and invoices, produced singly or in batches, are generated quickly with minimum effort. Particularly powerful is the facility of the software to generate delivery notes and then confirm actual quantities after completion of the delivery.

Larger organisations benefit from the "transactional" nature of the software allowing them to produce instant net order intake reports by customer or salesperson.