System and method of automotive production planning
AssigneeJDA Software Group, Inc.
InventorsVincent Raymond, Marc Brisson
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Abstract
A system and method are disclosed including a production planner that receives a sales forecast for configurations of an automobile. The demand planner also receives constraints associated with an automobile supply chain. The demand planner further models configurations and constraints as a mixed integer linear programming problem, determines a production plan for automobiles, and sends instructions to cause automated machinery to retrieve an amount of automobiles equal to a forecasted production level minus a current inventory level and to move the amount of the automobile to an inventory location of the automobile.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- receiving a sales forecast for two or more configurations of an automobile;
- receiving one or more constraints associated with an automobile supply chain;
- modeling the two or more configurations and the one or more constraints as a mixed integer linear programming problem;
- determining a production plan for the automobile;
- and
- comparing the difference between a current inventory level of an automobile and a forecasted production level for the automobile in the production plan and sending, by production planner to automated machinery, instructions to cause the automated machinery to retrieve an amount of the automobile equal to the forecasted production level minus the current inventory level and to move the amount of the automobile to an inventory location of the automobile.
A system, comprising:
- a production planner comprising a processor and a memory, the production planner configured to:
- receive a sales forecast for two or more configurations of an automobile;
- receive one or more constraints associated with an automobile supply chain;
- model the two or more configurations and the one or more constraints as a mixed integer linear programming problem;
- determine a production plan for the automobile;
- and
- compare the difference between a current inventory level of an automobile and a forecasted production level for the automobile in the production plan and send to automated machinery, instructions to cause the automated machinery to retrieve an amount of the automobile equal to the forecasted production level minus the current inventory level and to move the amount of the automobile to an inventory location of the automobile.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising software, the software when executed configured to:
- receive a sales forecast for two or more configurations of an automobile;
- receive one or more constraints associated with an automobile supply chain;
- model the two or more configurations and the one or more constraints as a mixed integer linear programming problem;
- determine a production plan for the automobile;
- and
- compare the difference between a current inventory level of an automobile and a forecasted production level for the automobile in the production plan and send to automated machinery, instructions to cause the automated machinery to retrieve an amount of the automobile equal to the forecasted production level minus the current inventory level and to move the amount of the automobile to an inventory location of the automobile.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.