Performing Material Requirement Planning (MRP) and Lean/ JIT in Operations - Assignment 6

Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

This assignment relates to the following Course Learning Requirements:

CLR 11: Perform Material Requirement Planning (MRP) calculations
CLR 12: Define and utilize the six elements of JIT/Lean
CLR 13: Describe job Design and ways of measuring workareas

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1. Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP)

Find a news item within the past 3 years about a company that has benefitted from enterprise resource planning.

(i) Describe the company briefly – product/services, locations, customers

(ii) Describe the company’s operations briefly – type of process

(iii) Describe how ERP has benefitted the company

Conduct research to find a company that is successfully using JIT systems in its operations.

(i) Describe the company briefly – product/services, locations, customers

(ii) Describe the company’s operations briefly – type of process

(iii) Describe how JIT is being used and how it has benefitted this company