Determination of best transportation guidelines
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1. An apparatus comprising:
- a demand order module including a set of products to be shipped to a target location;
an order guideline module including a set of constraints for a shipment from one of a set of a source locations to the target location;
a route determination module to select the set of source locations having the set of products based on a cost factor and a utilization of a capacity of a set of transports; and
a processing device to execute the route determination module.
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Abstract
Embodiments of the invention include a system to determine the best transportation guidelines for shipping a set of resources from a source location to a target location. The system may include sorting a set of shipping guidelines based on the cost of shipping the set of products. The best transportation guidelines may be selected based on a combination of the best cost and best utilization of transport capacity.
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1. An apparatus comprising:
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a demand order module including a set of products to be shipped to a target location;
an order guideline module including a set of constraints for a shipment from one of a set of a source locations to the target location;
a route determination module to select the set of source locations having the set of products based on a cost factor and a utilization of a capacity of a set of transports; and
a processing device to execute the route determination module. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3)
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4. A method comprising:
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identifying a set of source locations having a set of desired resources for a target location;
prioritizing a set of shipping rule groups based on a cost factor associated with the set of source locations and the target location; and
selecting a subset of the set of source locations and a subset of the shipping rule groups based on the cost factor and a utilization of a capacity of a set of transports. - View Dependent Claims (5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. An apparatus comprising:
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a means for determining a set of source locations of a set of resources;
a means for ordering a set of shipping rule groups based on a cost of shipping to a target location from the set of source locations; and
a means for selecting a subset of shipping rule groups based on the cost of shipping the set of resources from a subset of the set of source locations to the target location and utilization of a set of transports. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13)
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14. A machine readable medium containing therein a set of instructions which when executed cause a machine to perform a set of operations comprising:
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identifying a set of source locations having a set of products for a target location;
prioritizing a set of order guidelines based on a cost factor for shipping the set of products from the set of source locations to the target location; and
determining a subset of order guidelines based on the cost factor and utilization of a capacity of a set of transports. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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