# MRP Software in Amersham > MRP Software for businesses in Amersham. CubeERP covers Amersham and Olney, Milton Keynes and Aylesbury, with on-site implementation and support from our Olney office. **URL:** https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/mrp-software/buckinghamshire/amersham Amersham is well within our regular travel radius from Olney, which means implementation here is done in person rather than over a screen share. That matters more than it sounds: most of what a system needs to know is learned by standing in the building. ## Details - **Solution:** MRP Software - **Group:** Production - **Platform:** CubeERP (https://cubeerp.co.uk/platform) - **Location:** Amersham, Buckinghamshire - **Distance from our Olney office:** 34 miles - well within our regular travel radius from Olney - **Postcode districts:** HP6, HP7 - **Also known as:** Material requirements planning, MRP system, MRP II software, Production requirements planning, Materials planning software ## Coverage We cover Amersham and the surrounding area, including Old Amersham, Amersham-on-the-Hill, Chesham Bois, Waterside and Woodside, across the HP6 and HP7 postcode districts. We also work with businesses in Olney, Milton Keynes, Aylesbury and High Wycombe and elsewhere in Buckinghamshire. ## What is included - **Multi-level explosion:** Demand exploded through every level of the bill of materials, including phantoms, alternates and by-products, with lead-time offsetting at each level. - **Netted against everything:** Free stock, allocated stock, work in progress, confirmed purchase orders and goods in transit all taken into account - so MRP does not order what is already on a lorry. - **Suggestions you can audit:** Every recommendation shows what drove it: which order, which minimum level, which forecast line. Planners accept, amend or reject with the reasoning in front of them. - **Lead times that are real:** Supplier lead times measured from actual delivery performance rather than from what was agreed on paper, with safety time by item where volatility warrants it. - **Exceptions first:** Reschedule-in, reschedule-out, cancel and expedite messages ranked by impact, so a planner starts with the twelve things that matter rather than a thousand-line report. - **What-if before you commit:** Run a scenario against a possible order or a changed forecast and see the buy and make consequences before you promise a date to a customer. ## Real-world use cases ### Planning in a spreadsheet with 40 tabs **Scenario:** A manufacturer planned in a spreadsheet that had grown for a decade. It was accurate when its owner was in, opaque to everybody else, and took a full day each week to refresh. **Outcome:** MRP runs nightly and produces an exception list rather than a rebuild. Planning is now a two-hour review, and two people can do it. ### Buying what was already inbound **Scenario:** Purchasing worked from stock levels alone. Items on order but not yet delivered were invisible, so the same component was routinely ordered twice in a busy week. **Outcome:** Inbound purchase orders and work in progress are netted off before a suggestion is raised. Duplicate ordering stopped, and stock value fell without service levels moving. ### Lead times taken on trust **Scenario:** Planning used the lead times suppliers quoted. Several suppliers were consistently a fortnight slower than they claimed, which was absorbed by expediting and air freight nobody costed. **Outcome:** Measured lead times replaced quoted ones. Planning became reliable, expediting fell sharply, and two suppliers were replaced on the basis of evidence rather than impression. ## Figures - **Nightly** Plan refreshed while nobody is in - **Traceable** Every suggestion back to its cause - **Measured** Lead times from actual deliveries ## Frequently asked questions **How often should MRP run?** Nightly for most businesses, with an on-demand run when something significant changes - a large order, a supplier failure, a design change. Continuous re-planning tends to produce noise rather than insight. **What is the difference between MRP and MRP II?** MRP plans materials. MRP II adds capacity - people, machines and work centres - so the plan is achievable as well as arithmetically correct. CubeERP does both; the capacity side is covered under production planning. **Can we plan from a forecast?** Yes. Forecasts can be loaded by item and period and consumed by actual orders as they arrive, so you are not double-counting demand once a forecast turns into a real order. **Does it handle minimum order quantities?** Yes - minimum order quantities, order multiples, economic order quantities, price-break optimisation and supplier-specific rules are all applied to the suggestion before a planner sees it. **What if our BOMs are not accurate yet?** Then MRP will be wrong, and it is better to know that before you start. Cleaning BOMs is normally the largest piece of work in a manufacturing implementation, and we plan for it explicitly rather than discovering it at go-live. ## Related solutions - **Manufacturing Software** - Bills of materials, works orders, routings, shop-floor booking and real job costing - for businesses that make things to order. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/manufacturing-software/buckinghamshire/amersham - **Production Planning Software** - Schedule works orders against real capacity - people, machines and shifts - and see the effect of a rush job before you accept it. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/production-planning-software/buckinghamshire/amersham - **Purchase Order Software** - Requisitions, approval limits, purchase orders raised from real demand, goods-in booking and three-way matching. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/purchase-order-software/buckinghamshire/amersham - **Stock Control Software** - Multi-location stock with bin locations, barcode scanning, batch and serial traceability, and figures that are right first time. https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/stock-control-software/buckinghamshire/amersham ## Elsewhere in Buckinghamshire See https://cubeerp.co.uk/software/mrp-software/buckinghamshire for MRP software across Buckinghamshire. ## Contact - **Product:** CubeERP - **Trading name of:** Cube Systems Limited (company number 17220899, ICO registration number ZC216972) - **Email:** hello@cubeerp.co.uk - **Sales:** sales@cubeerp.co.uk - **Support:** support@cubeerp.co.uk - **Telephone:** 01234 672 617 (+441234672617) - **Address:** Unit 11, Olney Business Park, Osier Way, Olney, Buckinghamshire, MK46 5FP - **Opening hours:** Monday to Friday, 9am to 5.30pm - **Part of:** Crushed Ice Group (https://crushedicegroup.co.uk)