System and method of segmented modelling for campaign planning in a very large-scale supply chain network

US11769092B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Blue Yonder Group, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ankit Shankdhar · Haridwār, IN
• Arijit Deb · Kanchinakote, IN
• Chaitanya Pai Kalasa Gopinath · Kanchinakote, IN
• Devender Chauhan · Bengaluru, IN
• Tushar Shekhar · Bengaluru, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: May 1, 2018
• Grant date: Sep 26, 2023
• Expiry date: Jul 9, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/0202
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed including a planner having a processor and memory. The planner models a supply chain network over a planning horizon having one or more time buckets and a production line to produce one or more products using one or more campaign operations and one or more campaignable resources. The planner further formulates a supply chain master planning problem comprising a hierarchy of objective functions and one or more constraints and segments a campaign planning problem into three stages. The planner solves a first stage to determine prioritized production demands on campaignable buffers, solves a second stage to determine a timing and a sequence for allocating campaignable resources to campaignable buffers, and solves a third stage to determine a quantity of products to produce on campaignable resources.