System and method of root cause analysis of objective violations

US11853940B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Blue Yonder Group, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Tushar Shekhar · Bengaluru, IN
• Narasimha Kamath · Kanchinakote, IN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 12, 2015
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2023
• Expiry date: Aug 29, 2036

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/087
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system and method are disclosed including a supply chain network including one or more entities, one or more items and a plan explainer. The plan explainer generates an optimum inventory level based on a root cause of a goal violation by modeling the supply chain network and one or more business objectives as a hierarchy of objective functions. The plan explainer also solves the hierarchy of objective functions, stores plan explanation data and retrieves the plan explanation data. The plan explainer further generates the root cause of the goal violation by parsing the retrieved plan explanation data and calculates the optimum inventory level based on the root cause of the goal violation. In response to the calculated optimum inventory level, at least one of the one or more entities adjusts inventory levels of the one or more items according to the optimum inventory level. Other embodiments are also disclosed.