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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 05, 2010
Filed:
Apr. 04, 2008
Pascal Bensoussan, Stanford, CA (US);
Paul Dagum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Galper, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Goldbach, Berkeley, CA (US);
Balazs Kralik, Berkeley, CA (US);
Vivek Vaidya, San Francisco, CA (US);
Pascal Bensoussan, Stanford, CA (US);
Paul Dagum, San Francisco, CA (US);
Adam Galper, San Francisco, CA (US);
Michael Goldbach, Berkeley, CA (US);
Balazs Kralik, Berkeley, CA (US);
Vivek Vaidya, San Francisco, CA (US);
Microsoft Corporation, Redmond, WA (US);
Abstract
A representative implementation of a method begins when a planner captures assumptions about products and components in an entity called a 'scenario.' A scenario is the parameterization of all the demand, financial, and operational information for a portfolio of products and components across a set of time buckets (planning periods). The planner then specifies a component plan to be analyzed, which identifies the quantities of each resource that will be used or procured during each planning period. A request for analysis includes one or more analysis parameters that will be used in order to evaluate the performance and the risks associated with the component plan and scenario. The request for analysis is submitted to an analysis engine for calculation of risk indicators. The analytical engine calculates all the performance indicators and returns the results. The results are then typically stored in a database or other persistent storage system.