Patent №
US 8,024,208
Granted
2011-09-20
Filed 2007
Owner
HITACHI, LTD.
Lab
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AI components
2
planning · evo
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
11685952
The shipping planning system stores price/quantity relationship data for products in advance, calculates additional variable cost for shipping quantity for each product based on available resource and inventory, procured resource amount, procurement lead time, and available facility capability, evaluates relative profit subtracting opportunity loss of other products which shares the resources from a margin profit of the product using the additional variable cost, and determines the product to be shipped which makes the relative profits positive, and a shipping quantity and a price of the product using the price/quantity relationship data.
AI classification
Ownership
HITACHI, LTD.
assignment · 192900293
Assignors
FUNAKI, KENICHI
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.