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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 24, 2012
Filed:
Oct. 11, 2005
Mukundan Srinivasan, Union City, CA (US);
Rongming Sun, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Saurabh Thapliyal, San Mateo, CA (US);
Mukundan Srinivasan, Union City, CA (US);
Rongming Sun, Pleasanton, CA (US);
Saurabh Thapliyal, San Mateo, CA (US);
Oracle International Corporation, Redwood Shores, CA (US);
Abstract
Systems, methods, and machine-readable media are disclosed to allocating inventory across a plurality of locations in a supply chain. In one embodiment, a method comprises determining a total time-phased inventory and target safety stock level for each of the items at each location based on the baseline inventory as determined from expected demand and lead times for each item at each location, a target service level, a demand uncertainty level, a lead time uncertainty level, carrying costs in the supply chain and user constraints on budget, capacity and inventory.