System and method of solving supply chain campaign planning problems involving major and minor setups

摘要

A system including a computer solves supply chain campaign planning problems involving major and minor setups. The computer is configured to execute a major campaign for two or more of a plurality of major product families and fix an optimal major product family to a major time period on a planning horizon, based at least on aggregated major productivity fractions and calculated second moments of a plurality of two or more major product families. The computer is further configured to execute a minor campaign for two or more minor product families associated with the optimal major product family, obtain a minor productivity fraction of a campaignable resource for the minor product family over at least a portion of a major time period and fix an optimal minor product family from the two or more minor product families to a minor time period based at least on the minor productivity fraction.

主权项

1. A system of solving supply chain campaign planning problems involving major and minor setups, comprising:
a database that stores data describing a plurality of major product families, data describing a plurality of minor product families, data describing a campaignable resource, and data describing a planning horizon; a computer comprising a memory and a processor coupled with the database and configured to:
execute a major campaign, comprising:
for two or more of the plurality of major product families:
obtaining a major productivity fraction of the campaignable resource for an operation associated with a major product family;aggregating the major productivity fractions of the campaignable resource for operations associated with the major product family over a time interval that comprises at least a portion of a major time period; andcalculating a second moment for the major product family over a time interval that comprises at least a portion of the major time period; andfixing an optimal major product family of the two or more major product families to the major time period on the planning horizon, in association with the campaignable resource, based at least on the aggregated major productivity fractions and the calculated second moments of a plurality of the two or more major product families; andexecute a minor campaign, comprising:
for two or more minor product families associated with the optimal major product family, obtaining a minor productivity fraction of the campaignable resource for a minor product family over at least a portion of the major time period; andfixing an optimal minor product family from the two or more minor product families to a minor time period based at least on the minor productivity fraction.