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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Aug. 20, 2010
Narasimha B Kamath, Bangalore, IN;
Tushar Shekhar, Bangalore, IN;
Narasimha B Kamath, Bangalore, IN;
Tushar Shekhar, Bangalore, IN;
JDA Software Group, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US);
Abstract
A system and method is disclosed for solving supply chain planning problems. The system includes a database that stores data representing a planning problem of a supply chain network and a computer configured to access the planning problem of the supply chain network stored in the database and model the planning problem as a network of nodes and edges. The computer is further configured to generate a hierarchical linear programming solution of the planning problem and apply advanced heuristics to the generated hierarchical linear programming solution. The computer is still further configured to formulate a mixed integer program to generate an optimized global hierarchical solution and store the generated optimized global hierarchical solution in the database.