Software for Australian shops · MRP · Material Requirements Planning · Australia
MRP answers two questions: what do we need to make, and what do we need to buy to make it. NE Vault's MRP module turns orders into work orders with their bills of materials and routings, places them against your machines' real capacity, and tells purchasing what is short — so the schedule stops living on a whiteboard.
CRM and the customer portal are free. Stock and production are $39 a month each, AUD ex GST.
The reality
Work orders on a schedule against machine capacity. Move one and the floor board moves with it; the office sees what is late before the customer does.
Material is allocated when the work order is raised; the schedule warns when stock is short and purchasing sees the demand.
A floor board on the wall: queued, running, done — updated when operators scan the job card on a phone.
Bills of materials and routings live on the item, with sub-assemblies, and roll up into the quote's cost and the job's issue list.
Scan to start and finish; time lands on the work order and the costing, so the next quote is priced from what it really took.
Completing the work order books the good quantity into stock and moves the order along; QC hand-off is a step if you want it.
How a job goes through it
From a customer order, or for stock. The work order carries the BOM and the routing from the item; one click for many.
Against each machine's calendar and capacity, in priority order, with the due dates from the orders. Drag to move; the floor sees the result.
Allocated material against on-hand stock gives the shortfall; purchasing suggests the orders, net of what is already on order.
Operators scan the job card to start and finish an operation, issue material and book the good quantity; the board updates itself.
Finished parts land in a location, the order moves to QC or invoiced, and the invoice goes out when it ships.
Each step is a screen in NE Vault. See all seven, with the screen for each.
On screen
What you get
BOM and routing from the item, sub-assemblies, bulk creation from the queue.
Machine calendars, capacity, priorities and due dates on one board.
Queued, running, done per machine — on a TV on the wall.
Phone scanning for operations, material issue and completions.
Shortfalls from allocated demand; suggested purchase orders; make-to-order or make-to-stock per item.
Good and scrap quantities, QC as a step, finished stock into a bin.
Australian by default
Without a schedule, the job that slips is the one nobody looked at.
If the schedule prevents one slip a month, it has paid for itself three times over.
Questions
Material Requirements Planning: from what you have to make, work out what to make first and what to buy. In NE Vault that is Work Orders, the Schedule, the floor board and the purchasing suggestions behind them.
Jobs are placed against each machine's calendar and capacity, so the board shows real load and what a rush job pushes. It is a planning board you control, not an optimiser that reshuffles the shop overnight.
MRP works on its own for work orders, the schedule and the floor. Material planning and purchase orders need stock, which is the ERP module; most shops run both ($78 a month for the pair).
A phone with a camera for scanning and, if you want the board, any TV or screen with a browser. Labels print on an ordinary printer.
Yes. A BOM can contain items that are themselves made on work orders; their routing and cost roll up into the parent.
MRP is $39 a month, ERP $39, extra staff $7 each. CRM and the customer portal are free. AUD, ex GST, cancel any month.
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Start free and your trade's template is applied as you sign up — or book thirty minutes and we set it up with you, on your own parts.