Supporting the transport of shipments
AssigneeDeutsche Post AG
InventorsJan Speich, Tobias Larsson, Michael Heiart
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Abstract
An apparatus receives an indication of an incident potentially affecting a particular route in a section between two supply chain nodes. The particular route is usable for a transport of a shipment, and the particular route comprises a supply chain lane or a sequence of supply chain lanes connecting the two supply chain nodes. The apparatus determines at least one possible alternative route based on stored data about supply chain lanes that have been used successfully for a transport of at least one shipment between a respective pair of a plurality of pairs of supply chain nodes in the past. The apparatus provides data about the determined at least one possible alternative route.
Claims18
A method performed by at least one apparatus, the method comprising:
- receiving an indication of an incident potentially affecting a particular route in a section between two supply chain nodes, wherein the particular route is usable for a transport of a shipment, and wherein the particular route comprises a supply chain lane or a sequence of supply chain lanes connecting the two supply chain nodes;
- determining at least one possible alternative route based on stored data about supply chain lanes that have been used successfully for a transport of at least one shipment between a respective pair of a plurality of pairs of supply chain nodes in the past;
- and
- providing data about the determined at least one possible alternative route.
A system comprising at least one processor and at least one memory, the at least one memory storing a computer program, and the at least one memory and the computer program configured to cause at least one apparatus to perform at least the following, when the computer program is executed by the at least one processor:
- receive an indication of an incident potentially affecting a particular route in a section between two supply chain nodes, wherein the particular route is usable for a transport of a shipment, and wherein the particular route comprises a supply chain lane or a sequence of supply chain lanes connecting the two supply chain nodes;
- determine at least one possible alternative route based on stored data about supply chain lanes that have been used successfully for a transport of at least one shipment between a respective pair of a plurality of pairs of supply chain nodes in the past;
- and
- provide data about the determined at least one possible alternative route.
A computer program product storing a computer program configured to cause at least one apparatus to perform the following when executed by at least one processor:
- receive an indication of an incident potentially affecting a particular route in a section between two supply chain nodes, wherein the particular route is usable for a transport of a shipment, and wherein the particular route comprises a supply chain lane or a sequence of supply chain lanes connecting the two supply chain nodes;
- determine at least one possible alternative route based on stored data about supply chain lanes that have been used successfully for a transport of at least one shipment between a respective pair of a plurality of pairs of supply chain nodes in the past;
- and
- provide data about the determined at least one possible alternative route.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.