Patent ID: 11948163
Assignee: TARGET BRANDS, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 13:
14. A computing system including a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions for executing a visualization tool, that when executed by the processor, generates a graphical user interface (GUI) for displaying projected inventory positions of items across stores of a supply chain network, the GUI comprising:
a manner of simulation menu comprising a per epoch-based manner of simulation selection and an event-based manner of simulation selection;
an item menu comprising a plurality of selectable items associated with the supply chain network;
a store menu comprising a plurality of selectable stores of the supply chain network;
a single consolidated graphical view representing a first set of metrics for one or more items selected from the item menu at one or more stores selected from the store menu over a plurality of epochs at a first level of granularity;
in response to a first selection of the event-based manner of simulation selection from the manner of simulation menu:
determine the first set of metrics from first simulation data generated by aggregating a first stream of observation events according to a first order, the first stream of observation events output from a first replenishment simulation for the supply chain network, the replenishment simulation being executed as part of a simulation computing system, the output related to inventory and changes thereto over the plurality of epochs, and the first stream of observation events are ordered over a course of each epoch of the plurality of epochs; and

in response to a second selection of the per epoch-based manner of simulation selection from the manner of simulation menu:
determine update the set of values for the first set of metrics from second simulation data generated by aggregating a second stream of observation events according to a second order, the second stream of observation events output from a second replenishment simulation for the supply chain network, the second stream of observation events are grouped and ordered grouped and ordered by event type for simplified evaluation,

wherein the first simulation data is different from the second simulation data, wherein observed events in the first stream of observation events are different from observed events in the second stream of observation events based on changes to simulation logic across the supply chain network caused by differences in the first order and the second order.