Patent ID: 7248937

Claim:
Software for demand breakout for a supply chain, the software embodied in at least one computer-readable medium and, when executed using one or more computer systems, operable to: access a plurality of orders for at least one product, each product produced using at least one precursor; access 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; identify one or more particular units of the product that correspond to each product order; identify one or more particular units of one or more precursors that correspond to each product order; identify one or more particular units of one or more precursors by generating a first event for each product order, the first event comprising a request for a specified quantity of a specified item; and generate 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, at least one attribute value being representative of customer importance, each attribute associated with an attribute weight, the weighted average based on the attribute values and the attribute weights.