Patent ID: 9672485
Date: 2017-06-06
CPC Classifications: G06Q

Claim:
1. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon that, when executed by a processor, cause the processor to design a supply chain network, the designing comprising: identifying a service level agreement metric definition; generating a grid comprising a plurality of cells, wherein the grid is located over a representation of a geographical region; computing a service level agreement metric for each cell of the grid using the service level agreement metric definition; selecting a cell that includes a largest service level agreement metric and that has not been previously selected; positioning a supply chain network resource at an original position of the selected cell; computing a service level agreement based on the service level agreement metric of the selected cell; determining whether the service level agreement is greater than or equal to a service level agreement threshold; and repeating the selecting, positioning, computing, and determining until the service level agreement is greater than or equal to the service level agreement threshold.