Unified Cloud Value Chain Platform for Real-Time Planning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing value chain networks face inefficiencies due to disparate systems, leading to unnecessary communication, latency, and inaccurate information sharing, which results in suboptimal planning and execution, causing inefficiencies and increased costs.
Innovation Solution
A system utilizing a finite capacity planning and scheduling model with a real-time multi-party permissibility network, shared database, and permission system to manage access and updates, enabling real-time data sharing and re-planning only affected portions of the value chain, thus optimizing inventory and resource allocation.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If each company maintains its own separate value chain system with disparate platforms, then each entity has autonomy and control over its own systems, but information sharing becomes inefficient with latency and accuracy issues
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges disparate value chain systems into a unified cloud-based platform where multiple companies share common infrastructure, data models, and processing engines. This consolidation eliminates the need for each company to maintain separate systems, thereby improving information accuracy through a single source of truth while reducing overall system integration complexity through standardized interfaces and protocols.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a neutral cloud-based value chain network as an intermediary that facilitates information sharing between companies. This mediator provides standardized data exchange protocols, unified data models, and coordinated processing, enabling accurate information sharing across organizational boundaries without requiring direct integration between each company's systems.
2Speed
If information is transmitted through periodic batch jobs between disparate systems, then system autonomy is maintained, but latency is introduced and real-time visibility is lost
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements continuous real-time information exchange replacing periodic batch processing. The unified cloud-based system maintains constant data synchronization across all value chain participants through event-driven architecture and real-time processing, eliminating the interruptions and delays inherent in batch jobs while maintaining system autonomy through standardized interfaces.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces the mechanical batch processing system with an event-driven real-time processing architecture. Instead of scheduled periodic updates, the system uses event triggers that immediately propagate information changes across the value chain network, dramatically reducing latency and enabling real-time decision-making while preserving the autonomy of individual companies.
3Reliability
If duplicated information is stored in each entity's systems, then system autonomy is preserved, but a single version of truth is lost and calculation errors cascade
Solution Approach 1:
The patent consolidates duplicated information storage into a unified cloud-based data repository that serves all value chain participants. This single source of truth eliminates information inconsistency and prevents calculation errors by ensuring all companies access the same validated data, while holistic planning efficiency is improved through centralized processing capabilities that can analyze the entire value chain simultaneously.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal data model and information repository that serves multiple functions for all value chain participants. This shared infrastructure provides consistent data access, coordinated planning, real-time visibility, and holistic optimization capabilities to all companies, replacing the need for each entity to maintain its own duplicated information systems.
4Adaptability or versatility
If n2 integrations are required between companies in the value chain, then comprehensive connectivity is achieved, but setup time and expense increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a universal cloud-based platform that provides comprehensive connectivity to all value chain participants through a single integration point. This universal interface replaces the need for n2 bilateral integrations by providing a common data model, standardized protocols, and centralized coordination capabilities that enable any company to connect to any other company through the platform without direct point-to-point integration.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces a cloud-based value chain network as an intermediary that manages all connectivity between companies. This mediator provides standardized interfaces and protocols that enable comprehensive connectivity across the entire value chain while reducing integration complexity by centralizing connection management, data translation, and coordination functions in the neutral platform.
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AI summary
A system, computer program product and method for providing high delivery performance in a value chain network utilizing a finite capacity planning and scheduling model. The system includes a plurality of remote computers in communication with a respective plurality of remote users, a service provider computer having a computer program stored in non-transient memory and one or more microprocessors, a network interface in communication with the central server and the plurality of remote computers over a shared network, a shared database, having a master data repository and an execution data repository, in communication with the service provider computer, a multi-party module configured to onboard the plurality of remote users onto the shared network via the network interface, a real-time module configured to manage in real-time a shared data model common to at least a portion of the plurality of remote users, a permissibility network module having a permission system, a control system and software tools that manages access permissions to the shared network, the master data repository and to the execution data repository, and a planner module having an initial overall planning module and re-planning module. The re-planning module is configured to re-plan upon a change in condition in the value chain network and to limit planning to only those portions of the value chain network affected by the change in condition. Each of the plurality of remote users represents one of a plurality of entities in a value chain. Each of the plurality of remote users has at least one of a plurality of roles. The network interface is configured to receive one or more transactions via the shared network. The value chain network has shared access to a shared database on the service provider computer over the shared network. The shared data model is in communication with the master data repository and the execution data repository. The permission system is configured to provide access permissions to the plurality of remote users using predefined configuration settings. The control system includes rules that vary for each of the plurality of entities and by the respective role of the plurality of remote users. The rules define the read, write, edit and delete permissions and access rights to specific portions of the shared data model. The service provider computer is configured to: (i) provide access to the shared network to the plurality of remote computers based on the respective access permission of the one of the plurality of remote users provided by the permissibility network module, (ii) provide access to the master data repository and to the execution data repository based on the respective access permission of the one of the plurality of remote users provided by the permissibility network module, and (iii) manage access and updates to specific portions of the shared data model for all relevant remote users of the plurality of remote users.