While planning for materials you first need to schedule your time and money. At managerial level, you should first measure the resources and actual requirements of material requested. There must be enough material that you buy for accomplishing the task. Excessive material will cost your money that you might not recover from the job. You also need to find a place to buy the required material and arrange for delivery. This is to be noted here that materials planning or materials requirements planning must be done before finally purchasing the products from the market.
In this competitive market, the manufacturers endure themselves only by operating efficiently with all the deals. While planning for materials, efficiency plays a role in minimizing the inventories of materials, supplies, and finished products along by maintaining the sufficient quantities for planned task. Another critically important thing is the customers receiving on their scheduled time. In short, the production, purchasing, and delivery mark a great impact on the work. When any unexpected delays or emergencies in orders have to be supplied, then it will cost manufacturers their time and money.