Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Health care management
Patent
1996-03-29
1999-08-31
MacDonald, Allen R.
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Health care management
705 14, 705 22, G06F15300
Patent
active
059466626
ABSTRACT:
A method for providing inventory optimization for levels of products in a complex supply chain network for multiple internal supplier or manufacturer locations and external distributor or retailer locations. The invention constructs a representative supply chain network model to indicate the flow of products between internal and external locations, it determines inventory levels and fill rates to meet the service level requirements, calculates a total inventory cost for all products in the network, and optimizes the fill rates based on estimated gradient information of the total inventory cost.
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Ettl Markus
Feigin Gerald Eugene
Lin Grace Yuh-Jiun
Yao David Da-Wei
International Business Machines - Corporation
Jeanty Romain
Kaufman, Esq. Stephen C.
MacDonald Allen R.
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