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Criticism

Authors like Pochet and Wolsey [1] argue that MRP and MRP II, as well as the planning modules in current APS and ERP systems, are actually sets of heuristics. Better production plans could be obtained by optimization over more powerful mathematical programming models, usually integer programming models. While they acknowledge that the use of heuristics, like those prescribed by MRP and MRP II, were necessary in the past due to lack of computational power to solve complex optimization models, this is no longer true.

  1. ^ Pochet, Yves; Wolsey, Laurence (2006). Production Planning by Mixed Integer Programming. Springer. {{cite book}}: Text "isbn: 978-0-387-29959-4" ignored (help)