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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 04, 2012
Filed:
Apr. 03, 2008
Robert James Wittrock, Ossining, NY (US);
Robert James Wittrock, Ossining, NY (US);
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
In software systems for resource-constrained production planning (RCPP), it is often beneficial to determine a detailed association, or 'pegging', between the resources and the shipments that are enabled by those resources. Presented here is a software-implemented method for constructing a pegging of a production plan for an RCPP problem. The method is called 'Pegging By Explosion' (PBE). This method, takes a feasible production plan and reconstructs it, using its own specialized incremental allocation technique. A Pegging By Monitoring technique is applied to this reconstruction in order to produce the pegging. The reconstruction is accomplished by a specialized “explosion” technique related to the explosion technique of Material Requirements Planning (MRP).