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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 14, 2010
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2008
Jin-hwa Song, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Kevin C. Furman, Glen Gardner, NJ (US);
Gary R. Kocis, Vienna, VA (US);
Michael K. Mcdonald, Burke, VA (US);
Philip H. Warrick, Oakton, VA (US);
Chad D. Reimann, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
Jin-Hwa Song, Whitehouse Station, NJ (US);
Kevin C. Furman, Glen Gardner, NJ (US);
Gary R. Kocis, Vienna, VA (US);
Michael K. McDonald, Burke, VA (US);
Philip H. Warrick, Oakton, VA (US);
Chad D. Reimann, Baton Rouge, LA (US);
ExxonMobil Research and Engineering Company, Annandale, NJ (US);
Abstract
A computer application loaded on a computer readable medium, a computer apparatus comprising the same, and process employing the same, is described herein. The computer application, when executed, causes a computer to optimize, for maximum net profit margin, the product allocation, transportation routing, transportation vehicle/route scheduling and, optionally, blending, of bulk products that are produced by and loaded from supply locations and delivered to and consumed by demand locations, using a heterogeneous fleet of transportation vehicles over a pre-defined period of time.