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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jul. 04, 2017
Filed:
Mar. 05, 2009
Qaseem Ahmed Shaikh, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mikael O. Weigelt, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Jiefeng Shen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Qaseem Ahmed Shaikh, Bellevue, WA (US);
Mikael O. Weigelt, Bainbridge Island, WA (US);
Jiefeng Shen, Sammamish, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
Various embodiments of a system and method for generating predictions for unit allocation in a materials processing network are described. Various embodiments may include a capacity planner for defining a model including, for each of a plurality of discrete periods of time, a corresponding representation of a materials processing network including materials handling facilities, constraints associated with ones of the materials handling facilities, and logic for determining efficient flows of materials within the materials processing network during that discrete period of time. In order to determine efficient flows of materials within the materials processing network for a particular period of time, the capacity planner may determine the discrete periods of time corresponding to representations of the model required to determine the one or more efficient flows, and evaluate the logic of the those representations without evaluating logic of representations of the model corresponding to other discrete periods of time.