Steve:

We switched to a "New" mainframe MRP system about 5 - 6 years ago from our
homebrew mainframe MRP system. Guess what, the "New" system is made by
....... Yep, Western Data Systems.

About the only two cents worth from me is .....

If management can be open minded and try to adapt your company to an
existing proven software system, I can almost guarantee that the system will
do what it is supposed to do. So, look for software that has most of the
things in it that you're looking for.

On the other hand, if you try and make software do things that you're
already used to by "modifying"or re-writing software code of someone else's
software, then you'll end up  with a new system that is just as slow and
cumbersome as the system you already have.

Good luck.

Bill Kasprzak
Moog Inc.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Stephen R. Gregory [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 3:33 PM
> To:   [log in to unmask]
> Subject:      [TN] MRP Systems...
>
> Hi ya'll!
>
> I know this isn't a good question to ask us assembly type folks (but maybe
> it
> is...),
> it has to do with MRP systems. My boss asked me what I knew about MRP
> systems. I told him not much, but I did know that using the one we have
> here
> is pretty clunky. He said he agrees...hard to do any sort of queries,
> layer
> upon layer of screens to look at something, etc. It's an old mainframe
> based
> type of system (Western Data rings a bell, but I'm not really sure). So he
> asked me if I knew of any other MRP systems that would be easier to use.
>
> At the last place I worked at, myself, along with some other people in the
> company was given a presentation by some guys on a system called
> MRP-9000...I
> was pretty impressed. All windows-based screens, can integrate a barcode
> system in it, among many other things.
>
> Are there any other systems out there that anyone can recommend looking
> into?
> My boss asked me to try and find a few...I'm pretty clueless except for
> MRP-9000...
>
> -Steve Gregory-
>
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