MPS/MRP
Take full control of your manufacturing capacity, raw material stock, and batch delivery timelines
About Master Production Scheduling & Material Resource Planning
What is Master Production Scheduling (MPS)?
Master Production Scheduling (MPS) is a core strategy engine that helps manufacturers establish and maintain a high-level master build schedule. It directly answers three fundamental operational questions: what finished products to make, in what quantities, and along what exact timeline.
By evaluating customer demand forecasts, current stock levels, open sales orders, and active work orders down to multi-tiered Bills of Materials (BOM), MPS creates an actionable manufacturing roadmap. Through interactive scheduling dashboards, plant managers gain granular visibility into planned jobs, allowing them to:
- Drill down into work order specifics and group similar runs.
- Reschedule jobs dynamically when priorities shift.
- Directly link customer demand with factory supply to understand exactly why and when each batch run is required.
What is Material Requirements Planning (MRP)?
While MPS focuses on finished goods, Material Requirements Planning (MRP) manages the dependent demand—the raw materials, ingredients, packaging, and sub-assemblies needed to fulfill the master schedule. MRP ensures a smooth flow of inputs by calculating:
- What materials to purchase
- How much volume to order
- When to issue purchase orders
- When to schedule supplier deliveries
This automation supports both lean, demand-driven procurement and traditional batch-oriented production schedules, preventing line shutdowns caused by missing stock.
Major Features of MPS & MRP Module of Dexciss ERP
Powering process manufacturers with real-time capacity alignment, intelligent demand forecasting, and automated supply chain control. Important features are as follows :
1. Master Production Scheduling (MPS) Features
Smart Capacity & Horizon Planning
MPS automatically recalculates production timelines whenever your high-level plans change. Set your planning calendars by days, weeks, months, or years. Plan production for whole product groups or individual items using standard planning models.
"What-If" Production Simulations
Test and compare different production schedules before going live. Easily see how changing product recipes, switching production lines, or moving jobs to another factory will affect your capacity and timelines.
Demand Forecasting & Automated Scheduling
View clear, time-phased production needs based on actual customer orders and sales forecasts. Set MPS to run automatically on a regular schedule to keep your production plans up to date.
2. Material Requirements Planning (MRP) Features
Order Pegging & Material Visibility
Connect raw materials, ingredients, and packaging directly to specific customer orders. Bi-directional tracking lets you see which orders depend on which materials, ensuring customer-specific requirements are always met.
Multi-Factory Consolidation & Auto-Purchasing
Combine material demand and stock levels across all your factories and warehouses in one place. Once MRP runs, the system automatically creates purchase orders for raw materials and triggers new batch production jobs.
Business Outcomes with Dexciss ERP MPS & MRP management
- Streamline Planning: Connect long-term factory scheduling with daily material purchasing in one smooth process.
- Cut Inventory Costs: Keep optimal stock levels, lower storage fees, and avoid buying excess raw materials.
- Prevent Production Delays: Stop line shutdowns caused by missing ingredients and hit your target batch yields.
- Improve On-Time Delivery: Fulfill customer orders faster and keep delivery promises every time.
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Flexible Cloud & On-Premise Deployment
Deploy Dexciss MPS & MRP on your terms—whether on agile cloud infrastructure or secure on-premise servers. Designed to scale seamlessly alongside growing process manufacturers, Dexciss provides the operational horsepower needed to unify multi-site supply chains, eliminate material bottlenecks, and maintain total control over production schedules from anywhere.
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In comprehensive production management, MPS management (Master Production Scheduling) focuses on top-level finished goods—calculating what to manufacture, how much, and when based on sales forecasts and customer orders. On the other hand, MRP handling (Material Requirements Planning) manages the dependent demand—calculating the exact raw materials, ingredients, and packaging needed to execute that master plan, automatically generating purchase requisitions to prevent stockouts.
Dexciss ERP unifies planning and scheduling management into a single automated pipeline. By connecting live sales demand and multi-level Bills of Materials (BOM) with factory floor capacity, the system allows plant managers to run "what-if" scenario simulations, track order pegging, and adjust schedules dynamically to ensure optimal resource utilization and zero line downtime.
Yes. Dexciss ERP allows teams to automate both MPS management and MRP handling routines on a set calendar or frequency basis. The system scans active market forecasts, stock levels, and vendor lead times to automatically update production targets and generate vendor purchase orders without requiring manual data re-entry.
Managing multiple plants or warehouses manually leads to inventory imbalances and unexpected supply delays. Integrated planning and scheduling management consolidates demand signals, warehouse stock, and production capacities across all facilities into one centralized interface—ensuring seamless material allocation and cross-site coordination.
Automated MRP planning evaluates real-time stock balances against upcoming production schedules to determine precise purchasing triggers. Instead of over-procuring or holding excessive buffer stock, MRP ensures raw materials arrive just when needed (JIT), significantly lowering storage fees, reducing waste, and freeing up working capital.
Dexciss ERP’s production management architecture is flexible by design. Whether your operation relies on fixed batch sizes, recipe-based yield calculations, or agile demand-driven assembly, the combined MPS and MRP engine adapts to your specific operational rules to optimize factory throughput and ensure 100% on-time order fulfillment.