Patent ID: 8655705
Filing Date: 2014-02-18
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method for developing an optimized supply plan of scheduled jobs and assets in a mission critical supply chain network of an operations theater site comprising: inputting, with a processor, operational demands and a priority level for each of the operational demands, the input operational demands being selected from a group consisting of: mission demand, supply demand, maintenance demand, event exception demand and user defined demand of the operations' theater site that includes at least one of: squadrons, bases, repair facilities, supply warehouses, and factories; dividing, with the processor, the input operational demands into jobs; performing, with the processor, an initial jobs assessment and demand prioritization based on an assignment performed by a genetic algorithm that optimizes supply plans based on dynamic changes of the input operational demands and the priority level for each of the input operational demands; scheduling, with the processor, jobs with a same demand prioritization based on the performed initial jobs assessment and demand prioritization; forwarding, with the processor, the scheduled jobs to a jobs schedule variance processing; determining, by the processor, and redirecting unscheduled jobs from the scheduled jobs with same demand; forwarding, with the processor, the determined and redirected unscheduled jobs to the jobs schedule variance processing; assigning, by the processor, the scheduled jobs with same demand and the determined and redirected unscheduled jobs to the assets; forwarding, with the processor, the assigned scheduled jobs to an assets schedule variance and feasibility constraints processing, the assigning using a workflow for scheduling the assets comprising a job start load time sorting, an incremental assigning of the assets until a last asset availability, a determination of job assignment achievability after previous task completion by the asset, a decision constraint, and an overall number of other jobs to be assigned; determining, by the processor, undelivered jobs from the determined and redirected unscheduled jobs to the assets; assigning, by the processor, the undelivered determined and redirected unscheduled jobs to other assets based on a fitness evaluation; forwarding, with the processor, the assigned undelivered determined and redirected unscheduled jobs to the assets schedule variance and feasibility constraints processing, wherein the fitness evaluation comprises: repeating, with the processor, the fitness evaluation until the optimized supply plan of the scheduled jobs and assets is developed in the mission critical supply chain network of the operations' theater site.