E-Z-MRP Review

Rocky Smolin, the creator of E-Z-MRP, has made a career out of both writing from scratch and managing the implementation of proprietary Material Requirements Planning systems. These systems were very expensive, took a long time to implement, and required networks of terminals and computers as they integrated several functional areas of a manufacturing firm. So it took a sizeable company to afford an MRP system. Then, with the advent of the personal computer, Rocky began to wonder why one couldn’t develop an MRP system for small companies. He had this idea that if the user interface were simplified, the data inputs organized, and the reports that were generated were easy to run and read, then anyone who could run a small manufacturing company could implement and run MRP successfully, even if they had no background in either computers or manufacturing systems. Since many companies were investing hundreds of thousands of dollars in systems (which often failed after a couple of years of frustration), the idea was widely regarded as impractical and unworkable.

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