IRP Information Requirements Planning

The right information. At the right time. With the right person.

IRP connects your ERP, documents and people to every step of your process.

IRP is part of Lean ERP. Lean ERP manages your work; IRP shows which information each step needs.

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PrepareExecuteCheckComplete
IRPconnects and steers
  • what is needed
  • when
  • who
  • what follows
ERPplanning · quotes · invoicesDocumentsplans · certificates · photosPeople & partnerscustomer · employee · partnerOther sourcesCRM · emails · measurements

Lean ERP manages your work. IRP shows which information each step needs.

One file, two sides. A home in a new-build project, lot 2: the buyer chooses their kitchen.

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What it does
Manages the project, the lots, the choices, the surcharges and the planning.
Links each process step to the information it needs, and shows what is still missing.
In lot 2
The lot, the choices with their surcharge and the planning of the finishing work.
The step "Buyer's kitchen choice" lists the documents needed, such as the plan and the technical drawing of the kitchen, and what is still missing.
The question
What has been sold, prepared and planned?
Which information is not yet available, who supplies it, and at which step is it needed?

Four questions at every process step

You do not need to know the term IRP. These four questions explain it.

  1. What needs to happen?The process and the planned step.
  2. What is needed for it?A choice, a plan, a confirmation or a check.
  3. Who supplies it?The customer, a supplier, a colleague or a partner.
  4. What can follow?The next step, and who needs to know about it.

How it works in Lean

  1. 1
    You model your processesThe steps, the information per step and the dependencies.
  2. 2
    The model is linked to the planningThe steps appear in the planning of each file.
  3. 3
    At each step you see what is in and what is missingUnknown is not the same as complete: whatever has not come in is shown as missing.
  4. 4
    Everyone sees their partThe employee in the file, the customer or partner in a portal.
  5. 5
    What is missing comes firstPoints of attention per file or per block.
**Real screen from the demo environment**, with fictitious data. Per lot, which documents are in and which buyer choice is still missing. Click to enlarge.
Real screen from the demo environment, with fictitious data. Per lot, which documents are in and which buyer choice is still missing. Click to enlarge.

The promises of IRP

What you can expect from IRP, in your company and with everyone who works with you.

Information exists onceEvery piece of data has one place. No copies in emails, folders or spreadsheets that drift apart.
Everyone looks at the same informationCustomer, suppliers, partners and employees look at the same information, each from their own role. Nobody works on an old version.
Templates for what others supplyWhen a customer, supplier or partner needs to send something, the template is ready. You get what you need, in the form you need.
Work instructions and quality requirements at the stepHow a step should be done and what it should deliver are attached to the step itself. No searching through folders.
Everything at the step where it is neededAt every information step, the required data, templates and instructions are together. Whoever opens the step has what they need.
Handover without lossWhen a colleague leaves, a new colleague takes over from the same steps and the same information. What has been done and what remains is all there.
Unexpected absence? The status is visibleIf someone drops out, everyone sees straight away where the work stands and what is still missing. Nobody has to search through a mailbox.
You know what you still have to doPer step: which information is still missing and who has to supply it. That is the promise the others follow from.

IRP in your industry

The same approach, each time in the language of the work.

Property developmentThe finishing of a plot waits for the buyer's choice. You see it before the installer is at the door.Food productionAt goods-in and when a production run is closed, the check questions that step needs appear.Catering and eventsThe kitchen step of the event takes the dishes and the number of guests from the quote.Windows and doorsBefore production starts, you see at each step which item has not come in yet.
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