Model Design of Material Requirement Planning (MRP) Applied to a Surgical Sutures Company Fiorella Cerna, Catherine Gómez, Nadia Sánchez, Ana Luna, and Mario Chong Abstract This case study is restricted to a company in the health area that supplies local and international public and private organizations. Its master product is surgical sutures for the synthesis of tissues and ligation of blood vessels. The company is consolidated as finally for health professionals. Its value-added is to offer its products through demonstrations in the surgery room. For this purpose, sales representatives are present on-site, in the operating room, an average of three times per week, where they demonstrate the use of all their products, including sutures. In addition to this practice, the company has within its facilities a “hands-on room,” allowing health professionals to attend and use its facilities to carry out tests on all their products and verify the quality of the manufactured products. In this work, we implement the material requirements planning (MRP) to improve productivity in a company dedicated to the manufacturing of supplies for the health area. The use of mate- rial requirements planning improved the estimation of the number of raw materials required and optimized the scheduled deliveries within the company. Keywords Health suppliers · Surgical sutures · Material requirement planning 1 Introduction The health sector comprises various industries, sub-industries, and a wide variety of companies, having a strong influence on the global economy. To promote and maintain the health of individuals, this sector develops production and distribution activities and also offers services and treatments. With the advancement of tech- nology, the sector also showed great growth including innovative products aimed at fighting a wide range of diseases and ailments in patients (Ledesma et al. 2014). According to Deloitte (2018), global healthcare spending is projected to increase at an annual rate of 4.1% in 2017–2021. Aging and increasing populations, developing F. Cerna · C. Gómez · N. Sánchez · A. Luna · M. Chong (B ) Universidad del Pacífico, Jr. Sánchez Cerro N° 2141, Jesús María. 15072, Lima, Peru e-mail: m.chong@up.edu.pe © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021 J. L. García Alcaraz et al. (eds.), Techniques, Tools and Methodologies Applied to Quality Assurance in Manufacturing, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69314-5_12 269