Patent ID: 7835952

Claim:
A method for creating a production plan for built-to-order products comprising: providing a first order information storage database for storing data of a first production order information group, providing a second order information storage database for storing data of a second production order information group for which an appointed term of delivery is longer than an appointed term of delivery for the first production order information group, and storing at least one equalizing factor with order information of the first and second order information storage databases and being a factor affecting a number of processes taken in assembling each product to be produced based on options being added to each product; identifying an equalizing factor from the equalizing factors stored in the first and second order information storage databases and estimating a number of products to be produced during a predetermined period to define an ideal number of products for each equalizing factor, and selecting production order data from an achievement ratio of the ideal numbers for each equalizing factor; and creating a plurality of production plans for a product in accordance with the production order data selected from the first and second production order information groups based on the ideal number of products for each equalizing factor and on the achievement ratio of the ideal numbers for each equalizing factor and comparing a plurality of production plans to select a production plan in accordance with a product output defined during the predetermined period; wherein identifying an equalizing factor from the equalizing factors includes recalculating the achievement ratio for each equalizing factor and if the achievement ratios for all of the equalizing factors have not reached 100%, achievement ratio calculation is repeated until the achievement ratios for all of the equalizing factors reach 100%.