Patent №
US 6,463,345
Granted
2002-10-08
Filed 1999
Owner
INTERNATIONAL BUSIESS MACHINES
Lab
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AI components
4
ml · kr · planning · hardware
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
09225150
A computer implemented Availability Checking Tool enabling tool users to execute within a common work environment, from common enterprise data, and considering assets and demands across multiple order management systems and manufacturing facilities within boundaries established by manufacturing specifications and process flows and business policies. The tool receives orders from multiple demand sources or ordering systems. Tool users can easily maintain a synergistic relationship between multiple ordering systems. A demand configurator coordinates product requests based on information from the demand source according to certain rules and priorities assigned to the product requests. A material resource engine manipulates data from the demand configurator and the rules to provide material supply information. A solver manipulates the material supply information from the resource engine and the rules to provide optimized product availability information. Thus, customer business rule level definitions are supported to provide the tool users with the power to micro-manage, optimally, enterprise assets and demands.
AI classification
Ownership
INTERNATIONAL BUSIESS MACHINES
assignment · 96980670
Assignors
PEACHEY-KOUNTZ, PENNY JEANETTE, RICE, ROBERT EUGENE, DANGAT, GEETARAM SAVLARAM, JINDANI, RAHUL, NAHAR, RAHUL, KUTHETHUR, SRINIVASA GOVINDA
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