Patent ID: 11887035
Assignee: BLUE YONDER GROUP, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 12:
13. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodied with software for campaign planning, the software when executed:
models a use of one or more campaign operation and one or more campaignable resource of a supply chain network, wherein the one or more campaignable resource are utilized in a batch or a continuous process;
defines an evaluation function comprising a weighted sum of features evaluated from a campaign planning problem;
initializes weights to build a consumption profile and evaluation function;
determines fitness values, wherein the fitness values indicate a level of variability;
evaluates reward values based on the fitness values;
selects a sub-sample of top fitness values having a best associated objective function;
repeats the determines, the evaluates and the selects to adjust the weights until a stopping criterion is met indicating an optimal solution has been reached; and
determines a campaign plan for a use of the one or more campaign operation and one or more campaignable resource.