System for determining carrier service using logistics considerations

US6934594B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Dell Products L.P. · US

Inventors

• Steven Clay Loring · Hermitage, US
• Wayne Leroy Zorn · Austin, US
• Allison Fay Searcy · Austin, US
• Ihab Al-Wazani · Round Rock, US
• Jeffrey Joyce · North Vancouver, CA
• William Frederick Reeves · Austin, US
• Michael Roy Rogers · Georgetown, US
• Christopher Waters · Palo Alto, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 18, 2003
• Grant date: Aug 23, 2005
• Expiry date: Sep 27, 2023

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06311
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A method for scheduling the manufacture of an item, in a factory which includes planning a time for manufacturing an item so as to have the manufacture of the item complete during a desired shipping window, determining the desired shipping window so as to allow the item to be shipped via a lower cost shipping method while arriving at a destination as if shipped via an expedited shipping method, and determining a carrier service for shipping the item so as to enable the item to be shipped via a lower cost shipping method while arriving at a destination as if shipped via an expedited shipping method is disclosed.