Geetaram S Dangat

US Patent:

6463345, Oct 8, 2002

Filed:

Jan 4, 1999

Appl. No.:

09/225150

Inventors:

Penny Jeanette Peachey-Kountz - South Burlington VT
Robert Eugene Rice - Essex Junction VT
Geetaram Savlaram Dangat - Naperville IL
Rahul Jindani - South Burlington VT
Rahul Nahar - South Burlington VT
Srinivasa Govinda Kuthethur - Essex Junction VT

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1900

US Classification:

700 99, 700106, 705 28

Abstract:

A computer implemented Availability Checking Tool enabling tool users to execute within a common work environment, from common enterprise data, and considering assets and demands across multiple order management systems and manufacturing facilities within boundaries established by manufacturing specifications and process flows and business policies. The tool receives orders from multiple demand sources or ordering systems. Tool users can easily maintain a synergistic relationship between multiple ordering systems. A demand configurator coordinates product requests based on information from the demand source according to certain rules and priorities assigned to the product requests. A material resource engine manipulates data from the demand configurator and the rules to provide material supply information. A solver manipulates the material supply information from the resource engine and the rules to provide optimized product availability information. Thus, customer business rule level definitions are supported to provide the tool users with the power to micro-manage, optimally, enterprise assets and demands.

US Patent:

7308416, Dec 11, 2007

Filed:

Oct 6, 2003

Appl. No.:

10/678096

Inventors:

Penny Jeanette Peachey-Kountz - South Burlington VT, US
Robert Eugene Rice - Essex Junction VT, US
Geetaram Savlaram Dangat - Naperville IL, US
Rahul Jindani - South Burlington VT, US
Rahul Nahar - South Burlington VT, US
Srinivasa Govinda Kuthethur - Essex Junction VT, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 19/00

US Classification:

705 8, 700 99, 700107, 705 28

Abstract:

A computer implemented Availability Checking Tool wherein tool users work within a common work environment, from common enterprise data, and considering assets and demands across multiple order management systems and manufacturing facilities within boundaries established by manufacturing specifications, process flows and business policies. Tool users can easily maintain a synergistic relationship between orders from multiple demand sources or ordering systems. A demand configurator receives demand information from each demand source and coordinates product requests in accordance with customer request rules and priorities. A supply configurator receives manufacturing and planning data from a planning source and manipulates the received manufacturing and planning data to create new supply data. A material resource engine provides material supply information from the new supply data, the received demand information following product supply rules and priorities. A solver optimizes product availability information in response to the material supply information, product supply rules and priorities.

US Patent:

7444295, Oct 28, 2008

Filed:

Jul 31, 2007

Appl. No.:

11/831955

Inventors:

Penny Jeanette Peachey-Kountz - South Burlington VT, US
Robert Eugene Rice - Essex Junction VT, US
Geetaram Savlaram Dangat - Naperville IL, US
Rahul Jindani - South Burlington VT, US
Rahul Nahar - South Burlington VT, US
Srinivasa Govinda Kuthethur - Essex Junction VT, US

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 19/00

US Classification:

705 8, 700 99, 700107, 705 28

Abstract:

A computer implemented Availability Checking Tool wherein tool users work within a common work environment, from common enterprise data, and considering assets and demands across multiple order management systems and manufacturing facilities within boundaries established by manufacturing specifications, process flows and business policies. Tool users can easily maintain a synergistic relationship between orders from multiple demand sources or ordering systems. A demand configurator receives demand information from each demand source and coordinates product requests in accordance with customer request rules and priorities. A supply configurator receives manufacturing and planning data from a planning source and manipulates the received manufacturing and planning data to create new supply data. A material resource engine provides material supply information from the new supply data, the received demand information following product supply rules and priorities. A solver optimizes product availability information in response to the material supply information, product supply rules and priorities.

US Patent:

59715855, Oct 26, 1999

Filed:

Sep 9, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/926131

Inventors:

Geetaram S. Dangat - Naperville IL
Anand R. Gokhale - Danbury CT
Shuchen Li - Poughkeepsie NY
Robert J. Milne - Jericho VT
Robert A. Orzell - Essex Junction VT
Robert L. Reid - Austin TX
Xueqing Tang - Naperville IL
Chih-Kuan Yen - Ann Arbor MI

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1900
G06G 766

US Classification:

36446808

Abstract:

A computer implemented decision support tool serves as a solver to generate a best can do (BCD) match between existing assets and demands across multiple manufacturing facilities within boundaries established by manufacturing specifications and process flows and business policies to determine which demands can be met in what time frame by microelectronics (wafer to card) or related (for example disk drives) manufacturing and establishes a set of actions or guidelines for manufacturing to incorporate into their manufacturing execution system to insure the delivery commitments are met in a timely fashion. The BCD tool has six major components, a material resource planning explode or "backwards" component, an optional STARTS evaluator component, an optional due date for receipts evaluator, an optional capacity available versus needed component, an implode "forward" or feasible plan component, and a post processing algorithm.

US Patent:

60412674, Mar 21, 2000

Filed:

Sep 26, 1997

Appl. No.:

8/938753

Inventors:

Geetaram S. Dangat - Naperville IL
Robert J. Milne - Jericho VT
Robert A. Orzell - Essex Junction VT

Assignee:

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

International Classification:

G06F 1900

US Classification:

700107

Abstract:

A computer implemented decision support tool serves as a vehicle to enable a user to execute within a common work environment, from common production information files, and at the discretion of the user one of three types of matching between existing assets and demands across multiple manufacturing facilities within boundaries established by manufacturing specifications and process flows and business policies. The tool provides an environment which permits the user to easily gain the advantages of a synergistic relationship between the three types of matching. The tool directly supports three types of matching: (1) material requirements planning (MRP) type of matching, (2) best can do (BCD) type of matching, and (3) projected supply planning (PSP) type of matching.