Don't tell the accountants how big a bank you need until you show the MRP 
team how much money they will save.  None of the copmprehensive systems 
are cheap.

We used Oracle, but it is extremely cumbersome from the engineering end.  
Our European group uses SAP, we will eventually migrate to that.  For now, 
we have switched to Omnify ( www.omnifysoft.com ).  It is more of a project 
management and  documentation tool, but with the data and reporting it can 
also do MRP in real time.  Our manufacturing group still imports it into Oracle 
for MRP, because that's what they are used to.  We can import our BOMs 
direct from the CAD software, all of the BOMS, AVL, and pdf docs are right 
there, release signoffs are on line, plenty of reporting.  It took a while to get 
it set up and everyone trained, but it's the only way we keep track of 
everything.

And for the prototype CM jobs we send out, sorry Bob, we still use Excel.  I do 
generate it directly from the schematic, so we get very few errors.

Pete

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