Steve,

We've been going through that exercise lately and depending on your budget,
costs can go all over.  We've looked at the Manex system mentioned in
another post.  It looks like an excellent solution for CM's but a bit
pricey.  A couple of others we've looked at are Expandable
(www.expandable.com) and Alliance (www.aliancemfg.com). These are probably
mid-range and low-range respectively.

Some others we haven't looked at include Macola (www.macola.com), Fourth
Shift (www.fs.com) and Obvious MRP (www.obviousmrp.com).

Rick Thompson
Ventura Electronics Assembly
2665A Park Center Dr.
Simi Valley, CA 93065

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-----Original Message-----
From: TechNet [mailto:[log in to unmask]]On Behalf Of Stephen R. Gregory
Sent: Wednesday, March 08, 2000 12:33 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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