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US 2014/0279669 A1Published application
Predictive Order Scheduling
AssigneeSap SE
InventorArno Diego Bruns
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Abstract
A method includes receiving an order for materials, analyzing the order to obtain selected order characteristics, executing a query in a database containing a history of orders to find previous orders having similar characteristics, and determining an estimated transit time for the order as function of the previous orders having similar characteristics.
Claims20
A method comprising:
- receiving an order for materials;
- analyzing the order to obtain selected order characteristics;
- executing a query in a database containing a history of orders to find previous orders having similar characteristics;
- and
- determining an estimated transit time for the order as function of the previous orders having similar characteristics.
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A computer readable storage device having instructions for causing a computer to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving an order for materials;
- analyzing the order to obtain selected order characteristics;
- executing a query in a database containing a history of orders to find previous orders having similar characteristics;
- and
- determining an estimated transit time for the order as function of the previous orders having similar characteristics.
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A system comprising:
- a planning and optimizer system adapted to receive an order for materials and analyze the order to obtain selected order characteristics;
- a transportation and scheduling system to generate a query for execution in a database containing a history of orders to find previous orders having similar characteristics;
- and
- the transportation and scheduling system adapted to receive an estimated transit time for the order as a function of the previous orders having similar characteristics.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.