I2 Technologies US, Inc.

I2 Technologies, Inc.

Jda Software Group, Inc.

Other

One Network Enterprises, Inc.

Tmail Inc.

Ranjit N Notani

Abhay Vinayak Parasnis

Mark B Whipple

John E Mayer

Greg Brady

Harsha Chaturvedi

Vinatha Chaturvedi

Ramsyam Missula

Israel Hilerio

Vinayak S Ghaisas

Sivakoumar Arumugam

Anand Iyer

Nitin Goyal

Ajit Sagar

Shrikant Ranade

Kendall Scheeer

Jeff Hook

Greg Merrill

Bhaven S Shah

David A Chisolm

Gregory A Evetts

Ramkartik Mulukutla

David A Chisholm

A system, computer program product and method for providing high delivery performance in a value chain network utilizing a finite capacity planning and scheduling model. The system includes a plurality of remote computers in communication with a respective plurality of remote users, a service provider computer having a computer program stored in non-transient memory and one or more microprocessors, a network interface in communication with the central server and the plurality of remote computers over a shared network, a shared database, having a master data repository and an execution data repository, in communication with the service provider computer, a multi-party module configured to onboard the plurality of remote users onto the shared network via the network interface, a real-time module configured to manage in real-time a shared data model common to at least a portion of the plurality of remote users, a permissibility network module having a permission system, a control system and software tools that manages access permissions to the shared network, the master data repository and to the execution data repository, and a planner module having an initial overall planning module and re-planning module. The re-planning module is configured to re-plan upon a change in condition in the value chain network and to limit planning to only those portions of the value chain network affected by the change in condition. Each of the plurality of remote users represents one of a plurality of entities in a value chain. Each of the plurality of remote users has at least one of a plurality of roles. The network interface is configured to receive one or more transactions via the shared network. The value chain network has shared access to a shared database on the service provider computer over the shared network. The shared data model is in communication with the master data repository and the execution data repository. The permission system is configured to provide access permissions to the plurality of remote users using predefined configuration settings. The control system includes rules that vary for each of the plurality of entities and by the respective role of the plurality of remote users. The rules define the read, write, edit and delete permissions and access rights to specific portions of the shared data model. The service provider computer is configured to: (i) provide access to the shared network to the plurality of remote computers based on the respective access permission of the one of the plurality of remote users provided by the permissibility network module, (ii) provide access to the master data repository and to the execution data repository based on the respective access permission of the one of the plurality of remote users provided by the permissibility network module, and (iii) manage access and updates to specific portions of the shared data model for all relevant remote users of the plurality of remote users.

System and computer program for providing high delivery performance in a value chain

A system, computer program product and method for healthcare information management in a multi-party healthcare network. The system includes a plurality of remote computers, a central server, a network interface in communication with the central server and the plurality of remote computers over a network, and a shared database in communication with the central server. The central server is configured to receive patient data for a patient, create an electronic health record for the patient on the shared database of the service provider computer, encrypt the electronic health record, associate a plurality of security permissions with the electronic health record, provide access to the electronic health record to a plurality of remote computers via the multi-party healthcare network based on the relevant security permission for each of the respective plurality of remote computers, receive changes to the patient data for the patient from at least one of the plurality of remote computers, and update the electronic health record for the patient based on the changes to the patient data for the patient. The electronic health record includes the patient data. A single version of the truth exists for the electronic health record for all parties in the multi-party healthcare network.

System and computer program for healthcare information management in a multi-party healthcare network

A method for providing certified confidential data collaboration between untrusted parties, including creating a changeset proposal remotely performing a certified operation and passing the changeset proposal to the certified operation, creating a unique changeset reference validating the changeset proposal and creating a state-at-changeset structure extracting a section-state-at-changeset structure from the changeset proposal, performing a cryptographic hash of the state-at-changeset structure and the section-state-at-changeset structure, writing to a local transactional database a changeset fat twin record communicating a changeset reference notification for each fat twin record to the parties, performing a certified operation in a blockchain a certified thin twin smart contract and passing the changeset reference, the cryptographically hashed state-at-changeset structure and the cryptographically hashed section-state-at-changeset structure, validating that a previous certified operation with the same changeset reference does not exist, writing to the blockchain a new thin twin record and performing a proof-of-certified-operation on the thin twin smart contract.

System and computer program product for certified confidential data collaboration using blockchains

A computer program product and method for sales forecasting and adjusting a sales forecast for an enterprise in a configurable region having one or more clusters of stores. The method includes periodically receiving a sales forecast for an enterprise over a configurable period of time, periodically receiving actual sales information, sales anomalies and anticipated events within the at least one of the clusters of stores over a computer network, determining positive and negative deviations from the anticipated sales of the sales forecast based on the sales information, determining whether one or more trends are occurring or have occurred using a pre-defined mathematical expression based on the sales information, the positive and negative deviations, and the sales anomalies, adjusting the anticipated sales of the sales forecast based on the sales anomalies, the trends and the anticipated events, and outputting the adjusted sales forecast to a user. The sales forecast includes anticipated sales for a plurality of items within at least one of the clusters of stores.

Computer program product and method for sales forecasting and adjusting a sales forecast

A system that facilitates the negotiation of a standard for inter-enterprise collaboration between trading partners includes a set of meta-model elements. Each element in the set can be negotiated by enterprises and incorporated into a negotiated meta-model that describes an agreement between the enterprises as to collaborations between the enterprises. Each element in the set describes a portion of a potential standard for collaboration between enterprises. The system also includes a meta-model negotiation service that receives an indication that enterprises wish to negotiate a standard for collaborations between the enterprises and provides access to the set of elements and receive selections of one or more of the elements for negotiation and incorporation into a negotiated meta-model. The negotiated meta-model describes an agreement between the enterprises as to collaborations between the enterprises.

Facilitating the negotiation of standards for inter-enterprise collaboration between trading partners

A system that facilitates the negotiation of a standard for inter-enterprise collaboration between trading partners includes a set of meta-model elements. Each element in the set can be negotiated by enterprises and incorporated into a negotiated meta-model that describes an agreement between the enterprises as to collaborations between the enterprises. Each element in the set describes a portion of a potential standard for collaboration between enterprises. The system also includes a meta-model negotiation service that receives an indication that enterprises wish to negotiate a standard for collaborations between the enterprises and provides access to the set of elements and receive selections of one or more of the elements for negotiation and incorporation into a negotiated meta-model. The negotiated meta-model describes an agreement between the enterprises as to collaborations between the enterprises. The negotiation service facilitates negotiation of the selected elements, incorporates negotiated elements into the negotiated meta-model for collaborations between the enterprises, and communicates the negotiated meta-model to the enterprises to enable collaborations between the enterprises according to the standard for collaborations reflected in the negotiated meta-model.

A system, computer program product and method for a global transaction manager in a federated value chain network. The federated value chain network includes a plurality of local networks having shared access to two or more shared databases on a service provider computer over a network via a database router module. The computer program product includes receiving a request for an order for goods or services from a first company in one of the plurality of local networks in the federated value chain network, searching for one or more second companies having matching goods or services over one or more of the plurality of local networks, sourcing the matched one or more second companies, creating a transaction over one or more segments to effect the movement of the good or services, involving one or more third companies, from a source location to a destination location, and managing the handoffs between the relevant first, second and third companies in order to ship the goods or services.

System and computer program for a global transaction manager in a federated value chain network

A system and computer program product for providing a transactional, addressable message over a network. The system includes a first node connectable to the network for generating and communicating a non-duplicated shared message having content and accessible to at least two users and for routing a reference to the shared message, a second node connectable to the network for receiving the reference to the shared message. The shared message includes a unique identifier, an address section, a metadata section, a comments section, and a content section, and is identified over the network using the unique identifier. The shared message is accessible to the second node via the reference. The content of at least one section of the shared message is transactionally modifiable after the second node has received the shared message. A change to the content of the modifiable section of the shared message is persistent with respect to the at least two users.

System and computer program product for transactional, addressable communication

A system, computer program product and method for implementing and managing a value chain network. The computer program product includes allowing a first company having one or more clusters of retail stores and a second company in a value chain network to access to a shared database, having first and second plurality of fields in the shared database are uniquely associated with each respective first and second company, on a service provider computer over a network; linking the first company with one or more of the second plurality of fields; linking the second company with one or more of the first plurality of fields; periodically receiving sales information and events, including a demand event and a supply event, on the value network within at least one of the one or more clusters of retail stores; and updating one or more of the first plurality of fields that are linked to the second company upon receipt of at least one selected from the group consisting of the sales information, the demand event and the supply event. The first and second company are linked and provided limited access to the one or more of the respective second and first plurality of fields without creating a copy. The one or more updated first plurality of fields are immediately accessible to the first and second company.

System, computer program and method for implementing and managing a value chain network

A method of optimizing multi-enterprise supply chain agreements using an electronic scenario based option contract includes creating at a buyer computer a plurality of scenarios of forecasted demand for one or more products and communicating from the buyer computer to a seller computer an offer to enter into an option contract for the supply of the one or more products, the option contract including an option corresponding to each of the plurality of scenarios of forecasted demand. The method further includes executing the option contract, receiving at the buyer computer an indication of current buyer demand for at least one scenario associated with the one or more products, and exercising at least a portion of the option in the option contract based at least in part on the indicated buyer demand.

System and method for multi-enterprise supply chain optimization

A system for performing a business process includes a first version of a business application executed by a first client to perform a particular business process and a second version of the business application executed by a second client to perform the business process, wherein the first client is coupled to the second client using a communication link. The first version of the business application is identified using a first version identifier and the second version of the business application is identified using a second version identifier. One of the first version of the business application and the second version of the business application is selected to initiate the business process based upon the first version identifier and the second version identifier.

System and method for performing a business process in a multi-enterprise, collaborating network

A computer program product and method for sharing information between multiple computer applications using a grafted model network. The method includes creating a first model having one or more pre-defined fields, defining one or more application-defined fields, associating the first model with the first application project, associating the one or more application-defined fields with the second application project, grafting the one or more application-defined fields to the first model, building the first and second application projects, and dynamically installing the first and second application projects on a software platform. Building the first application project comprises creating a first database table having one or more table columns corresponding to the pre-defined fields of the first model in a database. Building the second application project comprises adding one or more table columns to the first database table corresponding to the application-defined fields in the database. Dynamically installing the first application project enables the one or more table columns corresponding to the pre-defined fields of the first model to be accessed via the software platform by the first computer application upon execution on a computer, and dynamically installing the second application project enables the one or more table columns corresponding to the pre-defined fields of the first model and the application-defined fields to be accessed via the software platform by the second computer application upon execution on the computer.

Computer program product and method for sharing information between multiple computer applications using a grafted model network

A system () for managing a capacity extreme at a first entity () in a supply chain includes a planning application () that receives status data for at least the first entity () reflecting the capacity extreme at the first entity () and generates a plan () according to the status data. A manager application () receives the plan () and, according to the plan (), automatically initiates at least one service in an attempt to resolve at least a portion of the capacity extreme through interaction with one or more other entities (). The manager application () selects the service from among a plurality of available services based on a monetary value to the first entity () of a resolution expected to be available using the selected service relative to other services.

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Ranjit N Notani