“…Then, MRP II uses finished goods’ bill‐of‐materials (BOM) together with on‐hand and on‐order inventory quantities stored in ERP to determine the quantity of each BOM component required to manufacture the MPS requirements for finished goods. Also, MRP II uses the MPS delivery dates along with purchasing and manufacturing lead‐times stored in ERP to plan start dates for the purchase orders and shop orders that will replenish the required quantities of BOM components (Aydin and Gungor, ; Dickersbach, Keller, and Weihrauch, ; JD Edwards, ). Although many companies use lean manufacturing strategies such as Just‐In‐Time (JIT), most of these companies continue to use MRP II along with JIT (Agrawal, Minis, and Nagi, ).…”