I2 Technologies Us, Inc.

Abhijit A Bhide

Arvindh Murugan

Subhasis Ojha

Rickey T Tom

Rajeev V Pany

Hong M Yang

Prabhu Natarajan

Service parts inventory planning and management are provided for one or more entities in a supply chain (), preferably within the context of an electronic marketplace (). Status data reflecting substantially current service parts inventory levels at stocking locations within the supply chain () is accessed, these inventory levels indicating service parts excesses or needs at one or more stocking locations. A substantially current service parts inventory plan is generated according to the status data, a service parts demand forecast, and a supply chain model, the inventory plan including target stocking levels for service parts at stocking locations. According to the inventory plan, one or more services are initiated to attempt to resolve service parts excesses or needs at stocking locations through interaction with one or more other entities.

Electronic marketplace providing service parts inventory planning and management

A high availability planning and scheduling system includes a number of high availability (HA) systems () that are coupled to one or more external systems () using a message bus (). Each HA system () includes an HA server () that receives and queues requests received from the external systems (). Each HA system () also includes an advanced planning and scheduling (APS) engine () that receives a request from the HA server () and processes the request using planning information stored in memory of the HA system (). Furthermore, the APS engine () also modifies the planning information according to the processing of the request and generates a response to the external system () from which the request originated. The high availability planning and scheduling system further includes a message manager () that directs each request received from the external systems () to an appropriate HA system () using the message bus ().

High availability planning and scheduling architecture

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Irving, TX, United States of America

Abhijit A Bhide