Patent ID: 7280893
Filing Date: 2007-10-09
Classification: G06Q,H02J,Y04S

Abstract:
1. A business management system with interaction between an electrical energy supplier and a plurality of customer energy consumers having respective electrical load units which consume electrical power while producing goods according to production schedules, said system comprising: a Web site operated by said electrical energy supplier for providing information to customers about daily courses of energy supply reliabilities and energy prices offered for the morrow through a customer portal site; Web browser means available to respective ones of said customer energy consumers for accessing said customer portal site; computer means for generating a set of lowest cost goods production schedules for one or more of said daily courses, taking into consideration historical electricity use data by each of said electrical load units, inventory information corresponding to materials needed to produce the goods, and a list of said customer energy consumers' pending orders for goods to be produced; and means for comparing said schedules and presenting information thereon on said Web browser to an operator for enabling a goods production scheduling judgment based selection of a desirable schedule.