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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 23, 2013
Filed:
Jun. 12, 2009
Applicants:
Kenji Oya, Fujisawa, JP;
Kenichi Funaki, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroyuki Konno, Tsuchiura, JP;
Inventors:
Assignee:
Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo, JP;
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/00 (2012.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A production plan enabling suppression of occurrence of excess stock is made. A shipping request representing the requested amount of shipping for each shipping request week is received. Among the shipping weeks of the shipping requests, the furthest future shipping request week is handled as the furthest future shipping week, and the amounts of shipping of shipping weeks near the present time are determined sequentially from the amount of shipping of the furthest future shipping week.