Patent Document ID: 7966214
Application ID: 10707979
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for determining a production plan comprising: receiving customer demands for resources from different customers; rank ordering, by a computing device, said customer demands to create prioritized customer demands; aggregating, by said computing device, said prioritized customer demands into a plurality of priority groups based on said rank ordering of said customer demands; optimizing, by said computing device, a first mathematical linear programming model based on processing a highest priority group of said plurality of priority groups; assigning, by said computing device, a portion of said resources to said highest priority group of said plurality of priority groups based on said optimizing said first mathematical linear programming model; determining, by said computing device, each iterative solution for remaining ones of said plurality of priority groups in order of said rank ordering of said customer demands using results from a previous mathematical linear programming model solution; assigning, by said computing device, portions of remaining resources to a next highest priority group of said plurality of priority groups based on said determining each iterative solution; outputting, by said computing device, said production plan based on said assigning resources; independently determining, by said computing device, backorder costs penalties for each of said plurality of priority groups using said computing device; and assigning, by said computing device, by each successive mathematical linear programming model, a range of said backorder costs within a priority group of said plurality of priority groups to which resources are currently being assigned.