Blue Yonder Group, Inc.

Narayan Nandeda

Tushar Shekhar

Devanand R

Vidhi Chugh

Rashid Puthiyapurayil

Manish Kumar

Phani Bulusu

Vishal Shinde

Deb Mohanty

A system and method for a risk management visualization system comprises a computer having a processor and memory and configured to model a supply chain network as a supply chain planning problem, one or more key process indicators (KPIs) of the supply chain planning problem is based, at least in part, on the one or more input variables, model an impact on the one or more KPIs from each of the one or more input variables at a selected confidence interval using a Bayesian optimization process, and display a visualization of a risk profile for the one or more KPIs, the visualization indicating a probability that an actual KPI value differs from a predicted KPI value.

System and method of cognitive risk management

A system and method for efficiently determining the fair-share bands of a supply chain planning problem modeled as a multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problem include a processor and memory and are configured to model a supply chain planning problem as a multi-objective hierarchal linear programming problem, assign weights at each band of a fixed number of at least two bands, determine a direction of improved band values from a value of a Key Process Indicator (KPI) calculated from an expected demand and short quantities, wherein the expected demand and short quantities are calculated from the multi-objective hierarchical linear programming problem using a sample generated by Gibbs sampling of a conditional Gaussian Bayesian Network, and generate a supply chain plan.

Fair share band optimization using Gaussian Bayesian network

A system and method for a risk management visualization system having a computer comprising a processor and memory and configured to model a supply chain network as a supply chain planning problem, one or more key process indicators (KPIs) of the supply chain planning problem is based, at least in part, on the one or more input variables, model an impact on the one or more KPIs from each of the one or more input variables at a selected confidence interval using a Bayesian optimization process comprising an exploration phase and a learning phase, and display a visualization of the risk profile for the one or more KPIs, the visualization indicating a probability that an actual KPI value differs from a predicted KPI value.

A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem. Embodiments include receiving an LP problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network comprising material buffers and resource buffers, partitioning the supply chain network at a complicating node into at least two supply chains sharing the complicating node, formulating a decomposed subproblem for each of the supply chains, calculating an effective dual based, at least in part, on a mathematical difference of at least two dual values calculated by solving the functional-based decomposed subproblems, and generating a globally-optimal LP solution to the LP problem using subgradient descent with the effective dual.

Domain-aware decomposition for supply chain master planning using linear programming

A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem. Embodiments include receiving a matrix formulation of at least a portion of the LP problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network, generating an image based on the matrix formulation to identify connected components, partitioning the matrix formulation based, at least in part, on the connected components constraint into at least two partitions, formulating an LP subproblem from each of the at least two partitions, and solving the LP subproblems to generate a global solution to the supply chain planning problem.

Image-based decomposition for fast iterative solve of complex linear problems

Fair share band optimization using Gaussian Bayesian Network

A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming (LP) problem. Embodiments further include receiving a multi-period matrix formulation of a least a portion of an LP supply chain master planning problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network and having a planning horizon divided into time buckets separated by time-bucket boundaries, mapping constraints of the LP supply chain master planning problem and variables of the LP supply chain master planning problem to the time buckets, calculating a quantity of cross-over variables for the constraints and the time buckets, selecting one or more decomposition boundaries from the time-bucket boundaries, and formulating at least two time-based decomposed subproblems by decomposing the LP supply chain master planning problem at the one or more decomposition boundaries.

Time-based decomposition for supply chain optimization problem

A system and method are disclosed for solving a supply chain planning problem modeled as a linear programming problem. Embodiments include receiving a matrix formulation of at least a portion of the linear programming problem representing a supply chain planning problem for a supply chain network, generating an image based on the matrix formulation to identify connected components, partitioning the matrix formulation based, at least in part, on the connected components constraint into at least two partitions, formulating an linear programming subproblem from each of the at least two partitions, and solving the linear programming subproblems to generate a global solution to the supply chain planning problem.

A system and method are disclosed for image analysis of supply chain planning problems modeled as a linear programming (LP) problems. Embodiments include receiving an LP matrix representing constraints and variables of at least a portion of a supply chain planning problem, generating a sorted variable index for the variables of the LP matrix, generating a sorted constraint index for the constraints of the LP matrix, identifying functions of the variables and the constraints, selecting one or more colors of pixels of a supply chain problem image based, at least in part, on the identified functions of the variables and constraints, selecting locations of the pixels, and displaying a visualization of the supply chain problem image.

Image-based analytics of supply chain optimization problems

A system and method for automated machine learning supply chain planning having a computer with a processor and memory and configured to receive a first supply chain network model having one or more material constraints for operations of a first supply chain network. Embodiments include transforming the first supply chain network model into a digital image, training an auto-encoder model to reduce the dimensionality of an input vector, and locating one or more items in the first supply chain network.

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