The paper uses material gathered from manufacturing businesses in recent years and shows how the K curve methodology has been successfully applied as a business management tool and can then be used to determine the optimum parameters settings for individual items within an MRP environment.
The paper concludes by demonstrating that the use of K-curve as a MRP management tool is a significant advance since the effective management of MRP parameters is simplified to an easily made business judgement. Application of the technique within business has enabled inventory reductions of 25% and significant improvements in the effectiveness of MRP operations.