MRP and replenishment
Turn demand into practical replenishment decisions
Simor ERP helps planners understand what is needed, when it is needed, why it is needed, and whether the right response is purchasing, production, or transfer.
The operational challenge
Why teams look for a better system
Static reorder lists cannot explain demand. Without a connected view of stock, open supply, sales demand, production requirements, and safety stock, planners either expedite constantly or carry too much inventory.
Simor Soft solution
Simor ERP evaluates availability and planning parameters to create actionable replenishment signals. Pegging connects a recommendation to the demand behind it so planners can review decisions instead of accepting a black box
Core capabilities
What the solution covers
Capabilities are connected through shared data, permissions, traceability, and reporting - not presented as isolated feature checklists.
- Minimum, maximum, and safety-stock policies
- Fixed or calculated replenishment quantities
- Demand and supply planning signals
- Purchase and production recommendations
- MRP pegging and requirement traceability
- Availability checks inside operational workflows
How it works
A workflow your team can follow
Planning combines current stock, reservations, open transactions, reorder settings, and manufacturing demand. Planners review recommendations, trace their source through pegging, and convert approved actions into purchasing, production, or internal replenishment work.
Less emergency buying and production disruption
More explainable planning recommendations
Better balance between service level and working capital
Customization
Adapt the system without losing control
Planning horizons, lead-time assumptions, order policies, exception thresholds, approval rules, recommendation views, and integrations can be configured for different product groups and locations.
Discovery, design, implementation, testing, data migration, deployment, training, and ongoing enhancement can be delivered as one managed engagement.
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Inventory replenishment software
Turn demand signals into explainable planning actions
Simor ERP evaluates dated demand, usable inventory, open supply, lead time, safety stock, order policy, and BOM requirements so planners can review what to buy or produce and why.
Demand
Bring together sales orders, forecasts, production requirements, transfers, and safety-stock policy without losing their source.
Supply
Evaluate on-hand stock, purchase orders, production orders, planned receipts, locations, and availability dates.
Planner evidence
Use projected balances, action dates, quantities, pegging, and exceptions before releasing supply.
Planning logic
Use the right replenishment policy for each item
Stable independent demand may use a reorder point, minimum, maximum, or safety-stock rule. Manufactured components may need time-phased MRP because their requirements depend on a parent BOM and production date. Simor ERP can apply the relevant policy by product, warehouse, and operating context.
Order multiples, minimum quantities, yield, scrap, supplier lead time, production lead time, working calendars, and available supply affect the result. The system should expose those inputs so a planner can correct data or make an informed override.
Planner workflow
Move from exception to approved supply
A useful MRP system supports judgment instead of generating an unexplained order list.
1. Review the shortage
Confirm date, quantity, location, reservations, and the demand that caused it.
2. Inspect the recommendation
Check lead time, policy, order quantity, supplier or routing, and conflicting supply.
3. Resolve exceptions
Expedite, defer, cancel, resize, transfer, purchase, or produce with an owned reason.
4. Release and trace
Follow the resulting purchase or production order through receipt, inventory, and cost.
Data readiness
Planning quality depends on operational records
MRP cannot compensate for unrecorded receipts, duplicated demand, obsolete BOMs, incorrect units, or unrealistic lead times.
- Accurate on-hand, reservations, and open orders
- Controlled BOM versions, units, yield, and scrap
- Supplier and production lead times with calendars
- Named ownership for forecasts and planning policies
- Visible exceptions and recorded planner overrides
- Reconciliation to purchasing, production, and inventory
Product fit
Customize replenishment without separating it from ERP
Simor Soft can adapt planning fields, policies, approval routes, exception queues, integrations, and reports while preserving the connection to inventory, manufacturing, purchasing, sales, costing, and accounting.
A Computer Software Engineering and QA review can test shortages, delayed supply, duplicate demand, BOM changes, negative availability, permissions, concurrent planner actions, and recovery after an integration failure. The implementation can begin with a controlled product group and expand after recommendations reconcile with planner expectations and actual outcomes.
Planning scenarios
Test inventory replenishment software with changing conditions
A static demonstration cannot show whether recommendations remain trustworthy when demand and supply move.
Demand increase
Add a customer order after the baseline run and verify shortage date, recommended quantity, action date, and pegging.
Late supplier receipt
Move an expected purchase beyond the required date and inspect expedite, alternate supply, and affected demand.
BOM revision
Change an effective component or quantity and confirm which production requirements are recalculated.
Planner override
Resize or defer a recommendation and retain the reason, owner, and remaining supply risk.
Control and measurement
Measure outcomes without rewarding unstable plans
Useful measures include stockouts, service level, expedite rate, excess and obsolete stock, supplier lateness, schedule adherence, recommendation overrides, forecast error, and plan stability. Definitions need a product group, location, period, exclusions, source, owner, and expected action.
Review measures together. A higher service level may be purchased with excessive inventory; fewer planner overrides may mean users stopped trusting the system. Trace changes to transactions and parameter decisions before changing policy.
Connected modules
Keep replenishment connected to execution and finance
A recommendation creates value only when the released purchase, transfer, or production order follows a controlled workflow. Receipt changes inventory; material issue and completion affect production; landed cost and valuation affect margin; invoices and payments affect the ledger. Simor ERP preserves these relationships instead of exporting recommendations to an isolated planning spreadsheet.
- Purchasing and supplier commitments
- Warehouse receipts, transfers, and availability
- BOM demand and production orders
- Landed cost and inventory valuation
- Roles, approvals, and audit history
- Reports, KPIs, and source-document drill-down
Implementation
Prepare data, policy, and ownership before activating MRP
Products, units, warehouses, locations, opening inventory, reservations, forecasts, open sales, open purchases, open production, BOM revisions, routings, lead times, calendars, suppliers, safety stock, and reorder rules need validated ownership. A technically successful import can still produce harmful recommendations when dates, units, status, or availability meaning are wrong.
Run baseline scenarios with known answers. Change demand, delay supply, revise a BOM, and record a planner override. Reconcile the result before releasing real orders. Assign responsibility for master data, planning policy, exception review, supplier follow-up, production response, and post-launch monitoring.
Failure handling
Keep planning usable when data or integrations fail
If a demand feed, inventory update, supplier confirmation, or production transaction is late, the planner needs to know which recommendations may be stale. Simor ERP can expose exception ownership and last-known context instead of silently presenting an apparently complete plan.
- Detect missing or duplicated demand
- Identify overdue and unreliable supply
- Prevent repeated release after retry
- Show affected products and locations
- Reconcile recovered data before rerun
- Retain the planner decision and reason
Lifecycle
Planning ownership remains visible after launch
Assign owners for demand, inventory accuracy, BOM data, lead time, supplier performance, planning policy, exceptions, released orders, and KPI review. Schedule parameter reviews and trigger additional review after supplier change, product revision, new warehouse, material demand shift, or recurring planner override.
Simor Soft can support the stabilized system, investigate recommendation differences, enhance workflows, and extend integrations or reports as operations change. Documentation and test scenarios remain part of the product record so a later improvement does not silently weaken planning control.
Policy by context
A single replenishment rule rarely fits every product and location
Fast-moving finished goods, long-lead imported parts, seasonal demand, service components, and manufactured subassemblies create different planning risks. Simor ERP can distinguish policy by item and warehouse while keeping the rationale visible to planners.
Teams can review safety stock, order multiples, preferred supply path, planning horizon, lead time, and exception thresholds without turning every variation into a disconnected spreadsheet. The result is a controlled policy record that can be tested against service level, stockout, expedite, and working-capital outcomes.