Unified Graph Hierarchy Model for Enterprise Planning
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern enterprises face complexity in planning and decision-making due to multiple departments and business units with conflicting goals, requiring efficient modeling and collaboration tools to optimize activities and achieve organizational objectives.
Innovation Solution
A software framework that models business entities and relationships, including hierarchical and non-hierarchical dependencies, to identify changes and propagate modifications across related measures, enabling scenario planning and collaborative decision-making across the organization.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If multiple departments and business units operate with their own separate planning systems, then each department can achieve its specific goals and objectives, but the overall organizational complexity increases and collaboration becomes difficult
Solution Approach 1:
The patent combines multiple departmental planning systems into a unified enterprise-wide planning system. The system integrates hierarchical planning (corporate, business unit, department levels) and non-hierarchical planning (cross-functional projects, ad-hoc scenarios) into a single platform, allowing all departments to operate within one cohesive framework rather than isolated silos.
Solution Approach 2:
The planning system is designed to be universal, supporting multiple planning types (hierarchical and non-hierarchical) and serving various organizational levels simultaneously. A single system instance can handle corporate strategic planning, business unit operational planning, departmental tactical planning, and cross-functional project planning, eliminating the need for separate specialized systems.
2Manufacturing precision
If enterprises develop detailed plans for multiple goals with various paths and activities, then planning precision and goal achievement capability improve, but the time and resources required for planning increase
Solution Approach 1:
The system pre-establishes planning templates, standard activities, and reusable plan components that can be quickly instantiated and customized. Common planning patterns and best practices are captured in advance as templates, allowing planners to rapidly deploy detailed plans without building everything from scratch each time.
Solution Approach 2:
The planning system implements nested hierarchical levels where corporate plans contain business unit plans, which contain departmental plans, which contain specific activity plans. Each level can be viewed independently or in the context of parent levels, allowing detailed planning at any level without requiring complete expansion of all nested levels, thus saving time while maintaining precision.
3Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises maintain multiple planning paths and alternative scenarios, then adaptability to changing conditions improves, but the complexity of managing and selecting optimal paths increases
Solution Approach 1:
The system provides automated feedback mechanisms that evaluate multiple planning scenarios and paths, comparing them against organizational goals, constraints, and performance metrics. The system can automatically rank alternatives, identify conflicts, and suggest optimal paths, reducing the manual complexity of evaluating multiple scenarios while maintaining high adaptability.
Solution Approach 2:
The unified planning system acts as an intermediary layer between various departmental plans and organizational goals. It automatically reconciles conflicts between competing plans, coordinates resource allocation across departments, and manages the complexity of multiple planning paths by providing a centralized view and automated coordination mechanisms.
4Adaptability or versatility
If enterprises frequently modify or replace plans based on changed conditions, then responsiveness to market changes improves, but the stability and reliability of planning processes deteriorate
Solution Approach 1:
The planning system is designed to be dynamic, allowing plans to be easily modified, updated, and reconfigured in response to changing conditions. The system maintains version control, allows incremental changes, and can rapidly propagate modifications through the hierarchical and non-hierarchical plan structures, enabling frequent updates without compromising system stability.
Solution Approach 2:
The system pre-establishes change management protocols, approval workflows, and impact analysis capabilities that are activated when plan modifications are needed. These pre-configured mechanisms ensure that even frequent plan changes follow standardized procedures, maintaining process stability and reliability while enabling rapid responsiveness to changing conditions.
Data Source
AI summary
Systems and techniques for a computational unified graph hierarchy model are disclosed herein. A set of source data may be received that may include entity data and relationship data. An entity may be identified in the entity data. A hierarchy may be determined for the entity. An entity graph network may be generated. A non-hierarchical link between the entity and a related entity may be determined. The entity graph network may be updated to include the non-hierarchical link. A set of measures may be generated for a relational link of the entity. A dependency may be configured between the set of measures for the relational link and a second set of measures of a second relational link. A change may be identified to a value of a measure and a dependent entity node measure value may be updated based on a computational effect of the change to the value.