Material Requirements planning (MRP) practices in Melaka manufacturing companies
This paper explores the combinations of quantitative and qualitative aspect of the effects of Material Requirements Planning (MRP) practices in Melaka industries. The objective s of this study a re to determine the actua l practices of MRP, the failure factors of MRP system, and...
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| Format: | Final Year Project Report / IMRAD |
| Language: | English |
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Universiti Malaysia Sarawak, UNIMAS
2005
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| Online Access: | http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6848/ http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/6848/7/MATERIAL%20REQUIREMENTS%20PLANNING%20%28MRP%29%20PRACTICES%20IN%20MELAKA%20MANUFACTURING%20COMPANIES.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper explores the combinations of quantitative and qualitative aspect of
the effects of Material Requirements Planning (MRP)
practices
in
Melaka industries.
The objective
s
of this study
a
re
to determine
the
actua
l practices of MRP, the failure
factors of MRP system, and methods used to cope with MRP failure.
This study is
based on the data obtained from mail survey and personal interview
of
manufacturing
companies in
Melaka
.
The particip
ating companies were personally
approached through telephone before sending the questionnaire or performing the
interview.
A total of 24 mail survey questionnaires were received through
out the
study
and these data
were
analyzed using the Statistical Pack
age for Social Science
(SPSS) version 11.5.
Data obtained from
the
6 interview se
ssions
were transcribed
verbatim manually and
used as
the
qualitative approach
to support the quantitative
results
for the study. The result of this study
shows
that most co
mp
any who adopts
the MRP system modified the system according to their needs.
In addition
, the result
also shows
that human factors, data accuracy, demand uncertainty and supplier did
actually affects the performance of MRP system. Methods
for
solving th
e materials
shortage
such as rescheduling, multi
-
supplier, renegotiating date lines and others
are
utilized
in order
to achieve on
-
time delivery.
On the whole, this study found that
MRP system can be used as a tool
to help
a
company to be competitive in
global, but
improvements and proper modifications should be done in order to achieve better
performance.
Furthermore
, the involvement of an experienced worker is strongly
recommended to reduce the failure rate as well as increase the efficiency of MRP
sy
stem.
T
his study
is
limited to manufacturing companies in Melaka only.
Therefore
, v
the results obtained from this study are not suitable to be used as a guideline for other
manufacturing companies in Malaysia. |
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