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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Sep. 25, 2001
Thomas Burkhardt, Dallas, TX (US);
Sanjay K. Mishra, Irving, TX (US);
Kesavan Shanmugam, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Deepthi Sigireddi, Irving, TX (US);
Thomas Burkhardt, Dallas, TX (US);
Sanjay K. Mishra, Irving, TX (US);
Kesavan Shanmugam, Flower Mound, TX (US);
Deepthi Sigireddi, Irving, TX (US);
i2 Technologies US, Inc., Dallas, TX (US);
Abstract
A system and method for performing large scale supply chain planning is disclosed, which includes at least one database with a plurality of partitions. A large scale, supply chain planning problem is decomposed into a plurality of independent and isolated sub-problems. The data for each sub-problem is maintained in a separate database partition. The sub-problems are preferably solved by separate planning processes operating in parallel in a distributed database processing environment.