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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 30, 2012
Filed:
Dec. 05, 2005
Applicants:
Heinrich Braun, Karlsruhe, DE;
Markus Riepp, Reilingen, DE;
Thomas Dehoust, Walldorf, DE;
Inventors:
Assignee:
SAP Aktiengeselleschaft, Walldorf, DE;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
The invention provides methods and apparatus, including computer program products, for of determining a possible lot size of units with respect to a fixed date for a chain of at least two process steps, each process step requiring a respective assigned resource, and consuming a respective time per unit for being performed by the respective assigned resource, where the process steps are sequentially dependent on each other. This is achieved by the following: