METHOD FOR IDENTIFYING PRODUCT ASSETS IN A SUPPLY CHAIN USED TO SATISFY MULTIPLE CUSTOMER DEMANDS

Patent №

US 7,606,743

Granted

2009-10-20

Filed 2004

Owner

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

AI components

2

planning · hardware

Assignment

Recorded

Dataset

AIPD

2023_r1 edition

Application

10708119

A method, a system for practicing the method and a storage device storing the method for identifying product assets in a supply chain used to satisfy customer demands. The method including: receiving a feasible schedule of all components to be assembled into products; receiving customer schedules for delivery of the products; and generating from the feasible schedule, from the customer schedules and from bills of materials listing all components required for a particular product, a set of demand pegging records, the demand pegging records associating a quantity and an availability date of each component of each product with a required quantity of each of the products, each demand pegging record consistent with the feasible schedule.

AI classification

Planning1.00
AI hardware1.00
Knowledge representation0.11
Natural language0.00
Vision0.00
Evolutionary computation0.00
Speech0.00
Machine learning0.00

Ownership

INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION

assignment · 143190550

Assignors

ORZELL, ROBERT A., PATIL, SHIVAKUMAR P., WANG, CHI-TAI

On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.

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