The challenges
The reality of material requirements planning
Material requirements planning (MRP) means balancing what production needs with what is actually available across products, plants, suppliers, and time horizons. When information is complex, slow to arrive, or difficult to compare, planners have less time to respond when demand, supply, or production plans change.
Bill-of-material data gets complex
Large product portfolios come with highly interconnected bills of material. Keeping that information accurate and accessible across the planning process is a challenge in itself.
Supplier availability is hard to track
Stock levels and availability often depend on manual communication between suppliers and producers, making information slower to access and more prone to errors.
What-if scenarios take too much time
Changing demand or capacity means recalculating plans. Running scenarios takes so much time that only a limited number can realistically be considered, making it difficult to get a clear overview and properly weigh your options.
The solution
Tactical MRP brings planning together
One place for tactical planning
With Tactical MRP, we bring data from ERP, suppliers, and marketing together in one application. This gives your planners one place to coordinate upstream stocks with vendors, allocate supply across plants, and manage material changeovers – keeping supply and production decisions aligned while reducing obsolete stock.
Our offerings
One platform for tactical MRP
AI-enabled supplier collaboration
Plan with mid- and long-term forecasts while bringing supplier stocks and production capacity into the same view.
Supply source allocation
Allocate supply across materials and plants based on supplier minimum agreements.
BOM data management
Manage the packaging and raw material data needed to plan across products and plants.
Cross-plant planning
Coordinate packaging and raw material planning across multiple plants in one view.
Material changeover
Plan material changeovers to reduce obsolete stock while staying within supplier agreements and production constraints.
Why ORTEC Lumina
Smart optimization deserves experienced minds
Good tactical planning means understanding how every decision connects. With 45 years of experience in analytics, optimization, and decision support, our experts understand the complex dependencies between materials, suppliers, plants, and production across data-intensive supply chains where thousands of products, materials, forecasts, and constraints are interconnected. With more than 100 consultants across ORTEC Lumina, we bring that expertise into your planning process. We work closely with your team to connect planning across suppliers and plants, improve supply allocation, and manage complex material changeovers.
Take the next step
See our solution in action
Tactical MRP is built around the realities of your planning process. See how we can tailor the solution to your organization and and what it can help you achieve.
