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

Claim 0:
1. A supply chain planning system, comprising:
a supply chain planner comprising one or more workflows, a server, and a database, the server further comprising a planning engine and a cluster of solvers; the database storing data associated with one or more supply chain entities;
a communications network connecting the supply chain planner with one or more supply chain entities;
the server configured to perform the following steps:
generate, using the planning engine, an initial supply chain plan during a first supply chain planning session and communicate the initial supply chain plan over the communications network to the one or more supply chain entities;
execute a workflow of the one or more workflows to receive one or more perturbations in supply chain plan inputs over the communications network from one or more of the supply chain entities;
compare 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;
classify 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;
assign 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 first supply chain planning session;
incrementally adjust the initial supply chain plan based on one or more solutions provided by the one or more cluster solvers; and
communicate the incrementally adjusted supply chain plan over the communications network to the one or more supply chain entities.