APPLICATIONS OF MATERIAL REQUIREMENTS PLANNING MODEL (MRP) IN WATER RESOURCES PROJECTS

Abstract

The management of materials or inventory concerns their flow to, within, and from the organization. The efficiency and efficacy of the flow can substantially influence costs and revenue generation and thus hold serious implications. Material Requirements Planning (MRP) is a computerized information processing system designed to plan and control the flow of materials. MRP is designed to release production and purchase orders in order to regulate the flow of raw materials, and in process inventories necessary to meet the production schedules for end items. The primary objectives of an MRP system are to determine gross and net requirements i.e. discrete period demands for each item of inventory, so as to be able to generate information needed for correct inventory procurement or production. Now-a-days, the Water Resources Projects in most of the developing countries are mainly using the primitive methods or models in order to manage materials, though these projects involve huge material cost, which may be as high as 50% of the total capital outlay on an average. Through this dissertation, extensive study has been carried out to develop an Object-Oriented software for the Material Requirements Planning (MRP) system, which can be used in the Water Resources Projects. This software is paperless, and it will operate in DOS mode, and also it has a user-friendly Graphical User Interface. Flow of a large number, and volume of materials can be planned and controlled through this software.