Automatic selection of cheapest suppliers for product assembly
OwnerJiri Pechanec, Martin Vecerainventors
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Abstract
An apparatus and a method for accepting automatically selecting a combination of suppliers yielding a lowest cost of a product of the suppliers is described. A product analyzer receives from a client a set of parameters of a product. The parameters include a quantity of the product and an identification of the product. The product analyzer gathers cost data of the product from different suppliers of the product based on the set of parameters. An optimal supplier engine of the product analyzer computes a total cost of the product for each combination of the cost data and the set of parameters to determine the combination yielding the lowest total cost.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a set of parameters of a product from a client at a product analyzer, the parameters comprising a quantity of the product and an identification of the product;
- gathering cost data of the product from a plurality of suppliers of the product based on the set of parameters with a supplier data aggregator module of the product analyzer;
- computing a total cost of the product for each combination of the cost data and the set of parameters;
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- determining the combination yielding the lowest total cost.
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium, having instructions stored therein, which when executed, cause a computer system to perform a method comprising:
- receiving a set of parameters of a product from a client at a product analyzer, the parameters comprising a quantity of the product and an identification of the product;
- gathering cost data of the product from a plurality of suppliers of the product based on the set of parameters with a supplier data aggregator module of the product analyzer;
- computing a total cost of the product for each combination of the cost data and the set of parameters;
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- determining the combination yielding the lowest total cost.
A computer system comprising:
- a client input interface configured to receive a set of parameters of a product from a client, the parameters comprising a quantity of the product and an identification of the product;
- a supplier data aggregator coupled to the client input interface, the supplier data aggregator configured to gather cost data of the product from a plurality of suppliers of the product based on the set of parameters;
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- a processing device coupled to the client input interface and the supplier data aggregator, the processing device configured to compute a total cost of the product for each combination of the cost data and the set of parameters, and to determine the combination yielding the lowest total cost.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.