MRP Runs — running material requirements planning

MRP (Material Requirements Planning) reads all open sales orders with delivery dates inside your planning horizon, looks at what coverage already exists (active works orders and purchase orders), and emits a gap-filling list of recommendations. Each recommendation is either a Purchase order (buy from supplier) or a Works order (make in-house from a bill of materials).

New to this? How the whole order-to-despatch loop fits together — the terms this guide assumes.

• MRP runs are point-in-time snapshots — re-run whenever your sales order book or stock levels change materially
• Each run produces a list of Recommendations split into Suggested → Approved → Converted → Rejected stages
• Products are skipped if they are already covered (on-hand + on-order meets demand + safety stock) or if they have no Bill of Materials
• The planning horizon is configurable — the default is 90 days (≈ 3 months)

Navigate to Planning → MRP Runs to see the MRP dashboard. It shows three headline stats, the Run MRP panel, recent run history, supporting data links, and a last-run summary.

The Run MRP panel lets you trigger a new planning run. Set the horizon in days, then click Run MRP now. The system reads open sales orders, subtracts coverage already in flight (works orders + purchase orders), and emits recommendations for the gap. You are taken to the results page automatically once complete.

The lower section of the dashboard shows the most recent MRP executions and links to the data sources that feed into each run. Click any run row to open its full detail page with all recommendations.

Click any run row to open its detail page. The header shows run metadata — when it started, the horizon, and who triggered it. Four stat cards summarise the run. Below them are the recommendation tabs and the "Considered but not recommended" callout.

The Suggested tab lists all recommendations awaiting a decision. Each row shows what to buy or make, how much, when it's needed, which sales order drives it, the suggested supplier, and the estimated cost. Click Approve to move a recommendation to the Approved tab, or Reject to dismiss it.

The Approved tab shows recommendations you have approved and are ready to convert into real orders. For Purchase recommendations click → Convert to PO to create a Purchase Order. For Make recommendations click → Convert to WO to create a Works Order. Once converted, the item moves to the Converted tab.

At the top of the run detail page, an amber callout shows products that had demand but were already covered — meaning MRP considered them but decided no action was needed. Click Show why to expand the table and see the exact coverage calculation for each product.

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