International Business Machines Corporation

Richard A Morris

Joseph T Wissmann

Marc P Skinner

Thao Vu Cessna

A planning system for analyzing planning data, wherein the planning system includes a computer program that comprises a planning data window for displaying a view of the planning data; a definition system for defining exception criteria; a searching system for identifying exceptions in the planning data based upon the exception criteria; an exception dialog for displaying and selecting exceptions identified by the searching system; and a navigation system that allows a planner to navigate from exceptions listed in the exception dialog to and among the exceptions displayed in the planning data window. Exceptions located in the planning data window are annotated for easy recognition by the planner.

Automated navigation to exceptional condition cells in a merchandise planning system

A system and method for dynamically building hierarchical groupings of business information based on member characteristics. The system includes a computer program that comprises: (1) a mechanism for choosing one or more characteristic orderings (i.e., a hierarchical model), a characteristic set made up of N characteristics, and an initial set of members; (2) a mechanism for assigning characteristic values for each of the N characteristics for each of the initial set of members; (3) a mechanism for dynamically creating hierarchical levels and level to level relationships based on the chosen characteristic order; and (4) a mechanism for dynamically creating new members and member to member relationships in each of the hierarchical levels.

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North Yorkshire, United Kingdom

Richard A Morris