Patent ID: 7035704

Claim:
A capacity management method, comprising: receiving at least one foundry capacity demand, in which the foundry capacity demand requests a factory to manufacture products for a client; receiving at least one commodity capacity demand, in which the commodity capacity demand requests manufacturing products owned by the factory; determining a demand priority for each foundry and commodity capacity demand according to sales and product information thereof, and an equation: ORP = ∑ i = 1 n ⁢ ⁢ ( RWi × DVi ) , wherein ORP is the demand priority, RW is a weight for respective sales and product information, DV is a data value corresponding to respective sales and product information, and n is the number of sales and product information; and allocating a capacity of the factory for the foundry and commodity capacity demands according to the corresponding demand priority and a request date, thereby generating a capacity allocation plan.