# NetSuite AI-Augmented MRP Planning Demo | Prolecto Resources

Source: https://www.prolecto.com/videos/netsuite-ai-augmented-mrp-planning-demo/

> Hector Cardenas and Jacob Powell demonstrate AI-augmented MRP planning on NetSuite’s native engine: item health, forecasting, work center calendars and pegging.

Video · Manufacturing

# AI-Augmented MRP Planning in NetSuite

Many manufacturers still run MRP in spreadsheets and team knowledge. This discussion shows how planners can visualize demand, schedule production and act on supply recommendations inside NetSuite, without replacing its planning engine.

Discussion · 36 min · Hector Cardenas and Jacob Powell

## What This Video Covers

Hector Cardenas and Jacob Powell walk through a working AI-augmented planning environment built on NetSuite’s native MRP engine. Planners see demand and supply over time instead of reading table-driven screens.

The MRP Item Health Dashboard surfaces incomplete or contradictory item and location settings before they corrupt a planning run. Supply recommendations and pegging are reviewed and acted on in place, and the tailored views are produced quickly with AI-augmented development rather than bought as a third-party planning system.

The through-line: NetSuite stays the system of record while the planning experience is shaped around how planners actually think.

### Key moments

- [0:00 The problem: MRP run in spreadsheets and tribal knowledge](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=0s)

- [2:00 NetSuite’s native planning workbench: supply, demand and the netting function](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=120s)

- [4:15 Where the native workbench breaks down for planners](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=255s)

- [7:25 MRP Item Health Dashboard: fixing item and location setup data fast](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=445s)

- [10:10 Forecasting by customer when NetSuite models only item and location](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=610s)

- [13:17 Moving planners from a monthly to a weekly cadence](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=797s)

- [14:55 The work center calendar: planned orders as a Gantt schedule](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=895s)

- [19:48 Pegging and demand overlay: why each planned order exists](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=1188s)

- [21:49 Firming and converting planned work orders in place](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=1309s)

- [24:00 Work center and asset views: capacity and machine-level scheduling](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=1440s)

- [26:49 What AI-augmented development changes about make versus buy](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=1609s)

- [33:26 Inventory view: safety stock, shortages and plan versus actual](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qkEPmoFMZxA&t=2006s)

Presented by

- **Hector Cardenas** Practice Leader, Operations

- **Jacob Powell** Senior Analyst

Read the article

The Next Frontier in NetSuite Manufacturing: AI-Augmented Planning and Control

[Read on the Prolecto blog →](https://blog.prolecto.com/2026/06/20/the-next-frontier-in-netsuite-manufacturing-ai-augmented-planning-and-control/)

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