Reveals the fatal flaw in MRP and traces its impact to everyday situations encountered by planners and buyers. Additionally, an elegant solution to overcome this flaw will be discovered. Readers will walk away with a new depth of understanding about conventional planning systems and a list of things they can begin to implement the very next day.

Revealing the one fatal flaw in Material Requirements Planning (MRP) that makes it completely incapable of conveying relevant information, this text gives companies an essential description of the "bullwhip effect" issue in supply chains and how it relates to the core problem.