| Article ID: | iaor19961162 |
| Country: | Netherlands |
| Volume: | 41 |
| Issue: | 1/3 |
| Start Page Number: | 355 |
| End Page Number: | 376 |
| Publication Date: | Oct 1995 |
| Journal: | International Journal of Production Economics |
| Authors: | Segerstedt Anders |
This paper presents Cover-Time Planning, a method for calculation of material requirements. Cover-Time Planning resembles MRP but it lacks its automatic time-phasing ability. Basically Cover-Time Planning is a reorder point system based on demand rates and time instead of quantities.