Graphical design and automatic generation of supply chain collaboration services capable of understanding supply chain semantics

US7039562B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• i2 Technologies US, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Ranjit Notani · Southlake, US
• Vinatha Chaturvedi · Coppell, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Dec 19, 2001
• Grant date: May 2, 2006
• Expiry date: May 1, 2024

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A computer-implemented system for graphical design and automatic generation of supply chain collaboration services capable of understanding supply chain semantics includes a collaboration service designer and a collaboration service generator. The collaboration service designer provides a graphical user interface (GUI), solicits from a user, using the GUI, information regarding the design for the supply chain collaboration service in a sequence of design steps, receives from the user, using the GUI, the solicited information, and generates a file based on the received information that contains a meta-model for the supply chain collaboration service. The collaboration service generator accesses the file containing the meta-model for the supply chain collaboration service. The collaboration service generator, using the meta-model, automatically generates the supply chain collaboration service, which is capable of understanding of supply chain semantics for an underlying supply chain.