International Business Machines Corporation

Grace Y Lin

Markus Ettl

Roger R Gung

Juhnyoung Lee

Akira Tajima

Heng Cao

Richard D Lawrence

Jonathan R Hosking

Anca-Andreea Ivan

David D Yao

Rama K T Akkiraju

Gerald E Feigin

Yingdong Lu

Yunhee Jang

Timur Nurullaev

A computer-implemented solution for managing a semantic business model is provided. In particular, one or more business area models for a business entity are obtained and transformed into intermediate model(s). Each intermediate model is represented using a substantially similar meta-modeling language. Subsequently, the semantic business model is generated by merging the set of intermediate models. In this manner, the semantic business model can be generated in a manner that reduces the overall burden on a user. The semantic business model can be provided for display to the user and/or use in performing qualitative analysis on various aspects of the business entity.

Semantic business model management

A method (and structure) for developing a distribution function for the probability of winning a bid by a seller for a product or service, using the seller's own historical data for winning bids and lost bids, includes normalizing the data for winning bids and the data for lost bids and merging the normalized data into a single set of data.

Method and structure for bid winning probability estimation and pricing model

A method for demand planning of products. The method comprises the steps of constructing a configure-to-order operation/multiple building block environment; and, forecasting the demand of the building blocks within this environment for establishing an efficient supply chain management.

Demand planning for configure-to-order and building blocks-based market environment

A method resolves the problem of projecting future stock levels for multiple stockholding locations in production-distribution networks, and minimizing the total dollar delinquency within given inventory budgets or within given allowable inventory holding costs. The invention communicates process control parameters and production-distribution network parameters, computes priorities for each product held at retail locations of the distribution network. It allocates available global and local budgets among products, sets starting stock levels for each product, computes and displays stock levels and the distribution network performance measures.

Method for estimating stock levels in production-distribution networks

A method for providing inventory optimization for levels of products in a complex supply chain network for multiple internal supplier or manufacturer locations and external distributor or retailer locations. The invention constructs a representative supply chain network model to indicate the flow of products between internal and external locations, it determines inventory levels and fill rates to meet the service level requirements, calculates a total inventory cost for all products in the network, and optimizes the fill rates based on estimated gradient information of the total inventory cost.

Method for providing inventory optimization

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