Production Plan System for Outsourcing Coordination
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current systems fail to efficiently manage production plans across multiple companies involved in manufacturing outsourcing, leading to labor-intensive adjustments and delayed responses to changes in delivery dates due to the lack of consideration for the impact on contractor production plans.
Innovation Solution
A system and method that connect a service management device with a planning device to quickly determine if a production plan change is feasible, ensuring consistency by storing planning conditions and updating them in real-time, allowing for immediate responses to client requests while considering recent transaction records and the overall production plan of contractor companies.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If a processor receives outsourcing from multiple companies and manually adjusts production plans for each client, then the production plan can be customized for each client, but the time required for adjustment and response increases significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The system segments the production planning process into automated evaluation components that independently assess each client's request against stored planning conditions, enabling parallel processing of multiple client orders without manual sequential adjustment
Solution Approach 2:
The system implements automated feedback loops where planning conditions are continuously evaluated and updated based on transaction records and production capacity, allowing the system to self-adjust production plans without manual intervention while maintaining client-specific customization
2Stability of the object's composition
If a company manually formulates production plans considering impacts on contractor production plans, then consistency with overall production plan is ensured, but labor for management increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automated self-service production planning where the computer automatically evaluates planning conditions, assesses impacts on contractor production plans, and formulates consistent production plans without requiring manual labor for management
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces manual mechanical planning processes with automated computer-based systems that use algorithms to evaluate planning conditions and generate consistent production plans, eliminating the need for human labor in plan formulation while maintaining consistency
3Speed
If planning conditions are evaluated in real-time for each request, then response speed to client requests increases, but system complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system performs preliminary actions by storing planning conditions and transaction records in advance, allowing real-time requests to be quickly evaluated against pre-prepared data without requiring complex real-time calculations, thus maintaining fast response speed while managing system complexity
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AI summary
A system for creating a production plan includes a service management device that determines whether a request from a client or a request change is within an allowable range set in advance by a contractor company, responds to the client without communicating with a planning device of the contractor company when the request is within the allowable range, transmits the request to a production planning device when the request is out of the allowable range, and responds to the client after receiving the planning result, and a planning device that, in response to a request for planning by a route other than the service management device, estimates a number of requests from another company corresponding to a requested period, and calculates and plans, each of which having a function of taking overall consistency by synchronizing the devices each time a plan is created.