System and method for generating predictions for unit allocation in a materials processing network

US9697488B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• AMAZON TECHNOLOGIES, INC. · US

Inventors

• Qaseem Shaikh · San Francisco, US
• Mikael O. Weigelt · Kingwood, US
• Jiefeng Shen · Sammamish, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 5, 2009
• Grant date: Jul 4, 2017
• Expiry date: Jun 10, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/06313
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Various embodiments of a system and method for generating predictions for unit allocation in a materials processing network are described. Various embodiments may include a capacity planner for defining a model including, for each of a plurality of discrete periods of time, a corresponding representation of a materials processing network including materials handling facilities, constraints associated with ones of the materials handling facilities, and logic for determining efficient flows of materials within the materials processing network during that discrete period of time. In order to determine efficient flows of materials within the materials processing network for a particular period of time, the capacity planner may determine the discrete periods of time corresponding to representations of the model required to determine the one or more efficient flows, and evaluate the logic of the those representations without evaluating logic of representations of the model corresponding to other discrete periods of time.