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Why we are building the MRP and payments platform Canadian manufacturers deserve.

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History · May 20, 2026 · 7 min read

What is an MRP?

By Junaid

A warehouse full of parts and a line that still can't run. The strange 1960s origin of the software every factory now runs on, and what an MRP was actually built to do.

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Opinion · June 4, 2026

MRP was built for the maker. Then SAP happened.

I watched Apple, the most capable operations company on earth, get handled by its own software. How a clean idea built for the factory floor became a platform built for SAP and the consultants.

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Story · May 6, 2026

Why I built TuringDock

I left manufacturing because the software was that bad. Then a friend's wire to his supplier got rejected and blew his lead time to an important customer. So I built the tool Canadian manufacturers actually deserve.