System and method of scenario versioning

摘要

A system and method is disclosed for scenario management. The system includes a database configured to store data describing a plurality of scenarios, each scenario comprising one or more fields and data describing the supply chain network comprising a plurality of network components, each network component configured to supply one or more items to satisfy demand. The system further includes a server coupled with the database; the server accesses the data describing the plurality of scenarios and accesses the data describing the supply chain network. The server further traverses the one or more fields of the plurality of scenarios until a value is determined and stores the determined value in the database for each of the one or more fields of the plurality of scenarios.

主权项

1. A supply chain planning system, comprising:
a supply chain network comprising two or more network components, each network component supplies one or more items to satisfy demand; a database comprising data describing the supply chain network; and a computer coupled with the database and comprising one or more processors and one or more memory units to execute instructions to:
store data describing two or more scenarios, each scenario comprising one or more fields, each field comprising a value only when the value is different than the value in a corresponding field of each respective parent scenario;access the data describing the two or more scenarios;access the data describing the supply chain network;permit a modification of a scenario only when the scenario to be modified does not have a child scenario;determine if a scenario comprises an entry for a field and when there is not an entry for the field, traverse a scenario tree along a parent scenario recursively, until an entry for the field is encountered and modify the value of the field;traverse the one or more fields of the two or more scenarios until a value is determined wherein values from a field in a scenario that is not different from the value in the corresponding field in the parent scenario are retrieved from the parent scenario; andstore the determined value in the database for each of the one or more fields of the two or more scenarios.