What if MRP became a peer-to-peer collaboration?
What MRP is now:
- MRP…
- is usually a big batch process
- usually runs overnight
- and work must stop for the duration of the regeneration process; no new records can be allowed until MRP has finished (depending on the rules of the MRP software implementation).
- MRP plans for a single company, not for a whole supply chain.
- NRP (Network Resource Planning) [https://wiki.p2pfoundation.net/Network_Resource_Planning ] was different from MRP altho using the same dependent demand algorithm.
- Some MRP apps can do “net change” updates but some can only do full regeneration of all plans.
- This https://help.deltek.com/Product/Costpoint/7.1.1/GA/mrx_update_mrp_process.htm says, “In Net Change mode, only those parts (and components) that have had some relevant activity since the last time MRP was run will be checked.” So you can’t create new plans at the same time.
What if the planning process could be distributed throughout a related network? Planning P2P?
How would distributed P2P planning work?
Agent-centric? Each agent could send planning messages to its network neighbors in local conversations (where “local” means not geography but topology. “among network neighbors”
Suppose that Agent A gets resource inputs from Agents D, E, and F, and sends output resources to Agents B and C. So those are the network neighbors involved in planning and executing resource flows.
