Material requirements planning depends on trustworthy demand, bills of materials, stock balances, and lead times.
MRP for Cabinet Shops: Start With Reliable InputsMaterial requirements planning depends on trustworthy demand, bills of materials, stock balances, and lead times. If those inputs are inconsistent, the planning output can create confident but impractical purchase suggestions. Improve the foundations before relying on the calculation.
A hypothetical bill of materials requires 100 hinge pairs, but inventory is recorded in individual hinges without a conversion. The plan can be wrong even when its arithmetic is internally correct. Fix the unit relationship before trusting the recommendation.
Ask a vendor to show how changes and exceptions affect the plan. Confirm whether MRP is actually part of the product rather than assuming it from general manufacturing language.
Bring one representative cabinet job to a Millbase demonstration. Follow the project and its recorded costs, inspect the inventory workflow, and review live floor activity. Ask the person who will use each screen to perform the task and check the resulting record.
Ask the Millbase AI agent a question grounded in your workspace records. For example: “For this project, compare estimated and actual labour and show the workers and workstations behind the total.” You can select a project or worker, ask follow-up questions, and request supported reports and CSV exports.
Check the result against the same project records and try a follow-up question. Confirm any required integration, import, export, or specialist planning workflow during the demonstration rather than inferring it from the software category.
No. Consider complexity, repeat demand, purchasing workload, and data readiness. A simpler controlled process may be sufficient.
No. Planning assumptions and current delivery commitments still need to be reconciled.
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