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MRP (Material Requirements Planning) was revolutionary. The first business software that did something that could not practically be done manually.

Then it got kludged together with a bunch of older apps that were designed using totally different principles and smooshed together into ERP. But ERP was (and is) a big money-maker

Valueflows comes from a series of projects to get back to the original ideas behind MRP.

Odoo mostly follows the older ERP kludge.

Hope that all made sense.