Managing supply chains with model predictive control

US7054706B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Intel Corporation · US

Inventors

• Karl Kempf · Chandler, US
• Kirk Smith · Chandler, US
• Beverly Toperzer · Chandler, US
• Martin Braun · Rottenburg am Neckar, DE
• Daniel Rivera · San Jose, US
• Wenlin Wang · Kunming, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 30, 2003
• Grant date: May 30, 2006
• Expiry date: Jun 30, 2023

Classification

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

Abstract

Entering a demand prediction for a discrete component product manufactured in a supply chain into a model predictive controller, entering inventory information for an inventory in the supply chain that is associated with the discrete component product into the model predictive controller, and controlling the inventory with the model predictive controller based on the demand prediction is disclosed.