This report is a result of a project that been conducted on System Andersson. System Andersson sells and develops MPS-systems for small and medium sized manufacturing companies. System Andersson are today located in the central parts of Jönköping and has about 20 employees. The goal for the project is to develop a new version of Andersson Qwick mps. The project has been divided into a number of smaller projects were the authors been part of the planning module project. The purpose of this part of the project is to investigate which functions that is going to be included in the new MPS-system. The authors part of the projects started off from formulations of questions that been stated in the initial phase of the project.

Two perspectives is brought forward in this report were the authors present what functions  that is available in system today and also which functions that System Anderssons future customers have the need for. The methods used are mapping, interviews and also literature studies that been of great use to answer the questions stated. A mapping of five MPS-systems, including System Andersson, Jeeves, Pyramid, EQ-Plan and Monitor has been conducted.

The results from the review of the mapping shows that System Andersson has the least amount of functions, 21 out of 51. Jeeves offered the greatest amount of functions and thereafter Monitor, Pyramid and EQ-Plan. The area where System Andersson performed best was in the material planning section. Beyond this mapping a prioritisation of the functions has been made by employees of System Andersson. This prioritization showed that many of the 51 functions received a high priority and a small amount of functions received a low priority. If the mapping and the prioritisation is brought together the results show that there was a great amount of functions that received a  high priority that were not included in the system used and sold by System Andersson today. The second part of the results is a number of interviews were the purpose is to create a reference base were parallels can be drawn between the mapping and the prioritisation made by System Andersson. The study show where System Andersson today is positioned in the volym/variant matrix and were the competitors is situated. The results shows that System Andersson miss a number of functions compared to their target group to supply other manufacturing methods and demands of adjacent markets.

The functions that are desirable to implement in the new system to gain more market shares in adjacent markets is:

• A Graphical planning tool
• A net requirement rapport
• Daily planning tool