Reliable work and purchase orders from validated master data, fully synchronized with your ERP.
THE OPERATIONAL COST
Products, routes and suppliers live in different files. Your team spends its time reconciling versions before production can begin.
Supplier preferences. Batch sizes. Material substitutes. When the logic lives in a planner’s workbook, every exception comes back to them.
Orders leave planning and meet missing materials, different routes and last-minute adjustments. The plant has to make the plan work again.
SUPPLY PLANNING LAYER
SmarterMRP is supply planning software that turns demand into production and purchase orders your plant can run, with the ERP you already have.
WHAT IS SMARTERMRP?
The missing connection between the data you have and the decisions you need to make.
ERP, APS, MES and CRM remain your transactional core. SmarterMRP connects their data into one operational context.
Govern the data, configure your business rules and turn requirements into traceable work orders and purchase proposals.
Materials, variants, batches and alternative routes stay connected to every planning decision, all the way to the factory floor.
THE PLATFORM
Start where the operational pain is sharpest. Expand without creating another disconnected tool.
One source of truth. Products, materials, routes and suppliers, governed once and ready to plan.
When the ERP, a spreadsheet and another tool disagree, you choose the value planning uses.
A reference becomes plannable only when its BOM, route, supplier and lead time are complete.
Demand you can plan on. Sales history, statistical methods and commercial input, on one horizon.
Layer moving average, seasonality and what Sales knows, and see the total move.
The forecast becomes work orders and the materials to buy, with no export in between.
Orders that hold on the floor. Built from demand, with materials, routes and batches already checked.
See what stock covers for each order and turn the gap into a purchase proposal.
Split an order into the batch sizes your plant really runs, each with its own week.
Buy what the plan needs. Net requirements become purchase proposals, each tied to the order that needs it.
Each proposal links to the work order, product and week that need it.
Lead times turn the week a material is needed into the week to order.
Every structure, traceable. Variants, substitutes and batches stay linked to the order they feed.
Each variant keeps its own structure, and switching shows exactly which lines change.
Split a material into batches and cover a shortfall with an approved substitute.
CONNECTED TO YOUR OPERATION
Connected today
ERPs, databases, Excel, APIs and Opcenter — in production with customers.
Available per project
AI connectors ready to configure — never enabled by default.
HOW WE MAKE IT POSSIBLE
Built on Mendix, the Siemens-owned low-code platform. Configure operational rules as your factory evolves.
Explore Mendix Trust Center ↗Standard interfaces and dedicated Opcenter connectors bring the right data into your plan.
Explore connectivity ↗Review the platform’s security controls, certifications and assurance reports directly with Mendix.
Platform credentials. Applicability depends on deployment and scope.
View security documentation ↗MIGRATIONS
Two guided paths to keep planning aligned while your core systems move.
Keep ERP as the transactional backbone. Give factory-specific rules a place to evolve alongside it.
Master data, requirements, purchase proposals and order-generation rules can sit outside the ERP core. The architecture and integration scope are defined for each project.
Organize materials, requirements and orders before they reach the manufacturing operations layer.
SmarterMRP complements manufacturing operations by structuring upstream information and configurable business rules. Opcenter X handles its manufacturing execution scope; each project defines the connection.
Customer data is not shared with third parties. External services are connected only when the project requires and approves them.
CUSTOMER STORIES
“Digitalization was key to adapting to the growth and complexity of the market, which forced us to constantly rethink our plans.”
INDUSTRIES
Food & beverageProcess manufacturing
Align seasonal demand, formulations and material availability with the batches your plant needs to make.
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Pharma & chemicalProcess manufacturing
Build a consistent planning foundation with governed master data, batch relationships and traceability.
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Automotive & suppliersDiscrete manufacturing
Bring product variants, supplier changes and material alternatives into a traceable production plan.
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Electronics & high-techDiscrete manufacturing
Connect changing components, multiple BOM versions and high-mix production in one consistent planning flow.
Let’s talk about your operationFAQ
Straight answers about supply planning, your ERP and how SmarterMRP fits your plant.
Supply planning software turns demand into a feasible plan for production and purchasing. It calculates what to make, what to buy and when, based on forecasts, orders, bills of materials, inventory and lead times. SmarterMRP does this for manufacturers connected to the ERP they already have.
An ERP records transactions: orders, stock movements, invoices. SmarterMRP plans: it connects demand, master data, production and materials planning and procurement in one plan, then sends the resulting orders back to the ERP. It does not replace the ERP.
No. SmarterMRP connects to your existing ERP and exchanges data with it, so the ERP stays the system of record.
ERP MRP modules usually run a fixed calculation on data that is hard to adjust. SmarterMRP adapts to your planning rules, combines historical data with planners’ knowledge, and keeps every decision traceable from demand to finished product.
Yes. SmarterMRP is a Siemens Technology Partner and integrates with Opcenter Planning and Opcenter Scheduling: SmarterMRP builds the supply plan and Opcenter takes it into detailed production scheduling.
Manufacturers in food and beverage, pharma and chemical, automotive and electronics, including Nissan, Kinematics-P4Q, Faes Farma and Grupo Palacios. Nissan Ávila cut weekly planning from 5 days to 4 hours.
Both. SmarterMRP is built on Mendix, Siemens’ enterprise low-code platform, and can run in the cloud or on your own servers. It is available in English, Spanish and French.
Talk to a supply planning specialist. We look at your ERP and your planning rules with a case like yours.
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Bring your data, your systems and your toughest planning challenge. We’ll explore where SmarterMRP fits.
