Patent ID: 7590555
Filing Date: 2009-09-15
Classification: G06Q,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer-implemented method for demand breakout for a supply chain, comprising: accessing, by a computer, a plurality of orders for at least one product each product produced using at least one precursor; accessing, by the computer, a production schedule identifying one or more resources in the supply chain, a quantity of each product and precursor scheduled to be produced by the one or more resources, and a time period associated with production of each product and precursor; generating, by the computer, a first event for each product order, the first event comprising a request for a specified quantity of a specified item, the first events forming a first layer in a tree; generating, by the computer, a weighted average for each of the first events, each first event associated with a plurality of attributes and an attribute value corresponding to each attribute, each attribute associated with a weight, the weighted average based on the attribute values and the attribute weights; executing, by the computer, the first events in order of decreasing weighted average by: executing, by the computer, the second events to produce one or more additional first events in a second layer of the tree; and propagating, by the computer, the first and second events through any additional layers of the tree to allocate one or more particular units of one or more precursors to each product order.