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 +1 (805) 584-9858 voice +1 (805) 584-1529 fax [log in to unmask] -----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- ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ############################################################## ############################################################## TechNet Mail List provided as a free service by IPC using LISTSERV 1.8c ############################################################## To subscribe/unsubscribe, send a message to [log in to unmask] with following text in the body: To subscribe: SUBSCRIBE TECHNET <your full name> To unsubscribe: SIGNOFF TECHNET ############################################################## Please visit IPC web site (http://www.ipc.org/html/forum.htm) for additional information. If you need assistance - contact Keach Sasamori at [log in to unmask] or 847-509-9700 ext.5315 ##############################################################