Patent ID: 7606743

Claim:
A method for identifying product assets in a supply chain used to satisfy customer demands, comprising: (a) receiving a customer demand schedule for delivery of products; (b) receiving a planned inventory requisition schedule of all components to be assembled into said products, said planned inventory requisition schedule generated from said customer demand schedule by a production scheduling run; (c) receiving bills of materials listing all components required for each of said products; after (a), (b) and (c), (d) generating, by a processor of a computer system, first and second coverage files from said planned inventory schedule, from said customer demand schedule and from said bills of materials, said first coverage file containing a list of assets including products to be used for product shipments and components to be assembled into products to meet product shipment demands, said second coverage file containing a list of all other assets; and after (d), (e) generating, by said processor of said computer system, from said first and second coverage files, a set of demand pegging records, said demand pegging records associating a quantity and an availability date of each component of each product with a required quantity of each of said products, each demand pegging record consistent with said planned inventory requisition schedule.