Resolving demand and supply imbalances

US8214268B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• International Business Machines Corporation · US

Inventors

• Edward W. Armstrong · Chapel Hill, US
• Brian T. Eck · Poughkeepsie, US
• Mark Henderson · Patterson, US
• Daniel Peters · Poughquag, US
• Howard K. Porter · Morrisville, US
• Linda L. Scheib · Austin, US
• Elizabeth C. Szymanowicz · Newburgh, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Aug 20, 2009
• Grant date: Jul 3, 2012
• Expiry date: Mar 3, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/0875
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for resolving demand and supply imbalances includes a supply liability reduction process (SLRP) executable upon identifying an excess component inventory liability. The SLRP includes: a procurement and development assessment sub-process that represents a greatest magnitude of liability; a liability council assessment sub-process that represents a magnitude of liability less than that of the procurement and development assessment sub-process; a sales activities sub-process that represents a magnitude of liability less than that of the liability council assessment sub-process; and a liability write-off sub-process that represents a magnitude of liability less than that of the sales activities sub-process. The SLRP performs one or more sub-processes in an order of the magnitude of liability. The sub-process reduces the excess component inventory liability by: determining alternative end products that use components identified in the excess component inventory liability; and executing for enticing sales of alternative end products.