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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 09, 2021
Filed:
May. 13, 2016
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Ajay A. Deshpande, White Plains, NY (US);
Saurabh Gupta, Irving, TX (US);
Arun Hampapur, Norwalk, CT (US);
Alan J. King, South Salem, NY (US);
Ali Koc, White Plains, NY (US);
Yingjie Li, Chappaqua, NY (US);
Xuan Liu, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Christopher S. Milite, Oxford, CT (US);
Brian L. Quanz, Yorktown Heights, NY (US);
Chek Keong Tan, Danbury, CT (US);
Dahai Xing, White Plains, NY (US);
Xiaobo Zheng, Shanghai, CN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
A method and system for considering customized capacity utilization cost in node order fulfillment. The method includes receiving by a customized capacity utilization cost module an electronic record of a current order. The method includes retrieving data of a plurality of nodes and calculating an actual capacity utilization. The method includes automatically converting the actual capacity utilization of each node of the plurality of nodes and a predetermined maximum amount of cost to balance capacity utilization across the plurality of nodes into a customized capacity utilization cost, and transmitting the customized capacity utilization cost to an order fulfillment engine. The method includes receiving by the order fulfillment engine the current order, the processing cost data, and the customized capacity utilization cost. The method includes automatically calculating a fulfillment cost and identifying a node-order assignment with the lowest fulfillment cost.