Patent ID: 11875292
Assignee: BLUE YONDER GROUP, INC.
Field: IT methods for management (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 14:
15. A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodied with software providing solving of supply chain planning problems modeled as linear programing problems, the software when executed:
generates, by an image rendering engine, pixels of a supply chain problem image, the pixels representing links between constraints and variables of the linear programming problem;
identifies, by an image processing engine, one or more contours of the supply chain problem image using a machine-learning model trained using a convolutional neural network and contour-labeled images received from the image rendering engine;
determines, by a decomposition module, a partition comprising at least two components linked by a first contour is more balanced than a partition comprising the at least two components linked by a second contour;
formulates, by a solver, at least two decomposed subproblems sharing one or more complicating constraints associated with at least one of the one or more contours; and
solves, by the solver, the at least two decomposed subproblems to generate a solution to the supply chain planning problem.