Patent ID: 11934987
Assignee: BLUE YONDER GROUP, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 7:
8. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
interconnecting one or more supply chain entities via a communications network with a supply chain planner, the supply chain planner further comprising one or more workflows, a server, and a database, the server further comprising a planning engine and a cluster of solvers;
storing data associated with the one or more supply chain entities in the database;
generating, using the planning engine, an initial supply chain plan during a first supply chain planning session and communicating the initial supply chain plan over the communications network to the one or more supply chain entities;
receiving one or more perturbations, by the server executing one or more workflows, in supply chain plan inputs over the communications network from one or more of the supply chain entities;
comparing, by the server, the one or more perturbations with data stored in the database associated with the one or more supply chain entities to determine whether at least one supply chain plan input has changed;
classifying, by the server, the one or more perturbations into one or more categories, wherein the one or more categories determine a type of perturbation assigned to a solver of the cluster of solvers;
assigning, by the server, each perturbation of the one or more perturbations to a particular solver out of the cluster of solvers associated with the server and configured to solve a category of perturbations out of the one or more categories associated with the one or more perturbations relative to the supply chain planning session;
incrementally adjusting, by the server, the initial supply chain plan based on one or more solutions provided by the one or more cluster solvers; and
communicating the incrementally adjusted supply chain plan over the communications network to the one or more supply chain entities.