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

Claim 6:
7. A computer-implemented method of campaign planning, comprising:
modeling, by a computer, 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;
defining an evaluation function comprising a weighted sum of features evaluated from a campaign planning problem;
initializing weights to build a consumption profile and evaluation function;
determining fitness values, wherein the fitness values indicate a level of variability;
evaluating reward values based on the fitness values;
selecting a sub-sample of top fitness values having a best associated objective function;
repeating the determining, the evaluating and the selecting to adjust the weights until a stopping criterion is met indicating an optimal solution has been reached; and
determining, by the computer, a campaign plan for a use of the one or more campaign operation and the one or more campaignable resource.