Tellency

Tellency manufacturing

A material plan you can trace back to demand.

Bring sales demand, forecasts, stock and expected receipts into a time-phased plan. Tellency MRP helps your team identify what to make or buy, when it is needed and which demand creates the requirement.

By the Tellency team · Reviewed

Start with the demand and supply your business actually has.

A useful MRP run depends on the inputs behind it. Tellency reads demand and supply into planning buckets so the planner can inspect the balance before accepting a proposal.

  • Consider open sales requirements, MPS entries, consumed forecasts and dependent demand.
  • Net against eligible on-hand stock, expected purchase and production receipts, and planned supply.
  • Use item and warehouse planning parameters for safety stock, lead time, planning method and time fence.

Calculate the shortage and size the proposal.

The engine works through item requirements over time and proposes supply when projected availability needs replenishment. Manufacturing definitions connect finished goods to their intermediate and raw-material requirements.

  • Choose lot-for-lot, fixed quantity, economic, period-of-supply or min/max sizing as appropriate.
  • Apply planning lead times and inspect the need date and suggested start date.
  • Review expiry-aware stock eligibility and multi-level dependent demand rather than a single total-stock figure.

Work the exceptions instead of reading every row.

Use the planning workbench and exception inbox to investigate late receipts, shortages and planning data that needs attention. Pegging connects the proposal to the demand it serves.

  • Review expedite, reschedule, cancel, past-due and safety-stock exceptions.
  • Investigate missing formulas, routings, lead times or suppliers before converting the plan.
  • Review capacity-overload exceptions alongside the material plan.

Turn an accepted plan into controlled documents.

A planned order is a proposal. Firm or adjust it before converting it to the appropriate manufacturing or purchasing document. Existing document approvals remain part of the workflow.

  • Firm planned orders to retain the planner’s decision across subsequent runs.
  • Convert accepted production proposals into production orders or purchasing proposals into requisitions.
  • Use full or net-change planning and compare the result against the same demand pack.

Connect demand planning and replenishment.

Use forecast plans and the master production schedule alongside order demand. Published forecasts feed the material plan; planner review remains essential when demand changes.

  • Compare forecast and actual order consumption in the same planning buckets.
  • Review statistical suggestions, reasoned overrides and forecast accuracy.
  • For multi-warehouse operations, evaluate transfer-source replenishment and dependent requirements at the source location.

Before the demo

Questions worth asking.

What is the difference between MRP and manufacturing ERP?

MRP calculates material requirements and replenishment proposals. Manufacturing ERP connects that plan to production execution, inventory, procurement, quality, costing and finance. Tellency provides MRP within its wider ERP.

Does an MRP proposal automatically purchase materials?

A proposal is reviewed and converted into a document. The purchasing or production document follows its own workflow and approval rules; an MRP run alone is not a supplier commitment.

What should we bring to an MRP demo?

Bring a finished product and its multi-level BOM or formula, open demand, warehouse stock, expected receipts, lead times and lot-sizing rules. Include an expiring lot and a late receipt so you can inspect the exceptions and pegging.