Patent ID: 7146234
Filing Date: 2006-12-05
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method of automatically modeling a relationship between a configurable product and a plurality of components of the configurable product as a bill of materials, wherein the configurable product and the plurality of components are related to one another by a plurality of selection conditions, the method comprising: generating a planning profile table for the configurable product, wherein the planning profile table includes data relating to the configurable product and at least one of a primary planning profile table and a secondary profile planning table; generating a plurality of characteristic value combinations representing the plurality of selection conditions; modeling the bill of materials using the planning profile table and the plurality of characteristic value combinations; and using the modeled bill of material to control a supply of the product; wherein generating the planning profile table comprises: wherein the method further comprises processing the data in the primary profile planning table and the secondary profile planning table to generate a demand plan taking into account the assembled component.