Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Comp. Ltd.

Chih-Yi Hsu

Yi-Chin Hsu

Wei-Kuo Yen

Yi-Cherng Wang

Jen-Hua Liu

An automated supply management system for dynamically fulfilling a customer requested order having an order fulfillment system for fulfilling a plurality of customer requests in accordance with a plurality of processing capacity restraints defined for a plurality of pieces of manufacturing equipment disposed within a manufacturing facility; an allocation planning system for receiving a plurality of capacity modeling data from the order fulfillment system, an order management system for communicating a plurality of consumption data and a customer requested due date to the order fulfillment system, wherein the order management system requests the customer requested due date and receives a calendar date of production available to promise from the order fulfillment system; and a manufacturing planning system for receiving an order fulfillment matrix from the order fulfillment system.

Automated supply management method for dynamically fulfilling a customer requested order

A new mechanism is provided that allows for changing the status of product in a product ordering an shipment system from products that is allocated to a customer to product that becomes available to potentially another customer. A Capacity Allocation Supported Demand (CASD) file is maintained that contains customer data and therewith, on a per customer basis, product source, a balance of product allocated to the customer and product data. At the time that an order is placed, this file is interrogated to determine if enough product is available for shipment. For instances where this is not the case, a rule based search is performed to locate product that can be allocated. An Available To Promise (ATP) file is instrumental in this search, a successful search is concluded with allocating the product to the customer order and updating the CASD and ATP files.

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Hualien, Taiwan

Chih-Yi Hsu