Implementing material requirements planning in a distribution environment to manage and control the material more effectively.

[摘要] Pretoria Distributor, one of Eskom's five main distributors, was experiencing severalproblems with the management and planning of their electrification projects. Theproblems occurred as a result of inadequate systems, processes and training. Therapid increase in the volume of material that had to be managed necessitated themto investigate the possibility of implementing Materials Requirements Planning. Theinvestigation highlighted the fact that it would be very difficult to handle the volumeof projects on the current systems, [i.e. base systems) and while the environment atthe Distributor is not ideally suited to MRP, they should still enjoy many of thebenefits of implementing MRP. In preparing for the implementation, several actionplans had to be put in place to address the problems of poor planning.By the time the Distributor was live on MRP many of the earlier problems relatingto planning and design standards, had been addressed. 'the pest implementationevaluation revealed that although the electrification projects was not an idealenvironment in which to run MRP, they were enjoying several benefits from theimplementation.

[发布机构] University of the Witwatersrand