Resource management and planning in a distributed manufacturing environment
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1. A resource management and planning system comprising:
- one or more processors; and
one or more tangible memory devices comprising one or more programs of instructions, the one or more programs of instructions comprising;
a plurality of advanced planning and scheduling modules operable to track manufacturing information at a plurality of distributed enterprise facilities and to communicate the manufacturing information to a global planning engine;
the global planning engine operable to receive the manufacturing information, to generate manufacturing plans based at least in part on the manufacturing information, and to communicate the manufacturing plans to the advanced planning and scheduling modules; and
an intelligent order management module operable to receive feedback regarding execution of the manufacturing plans from the advanced planning and scheduling modules, to identify one of the manufacturing plans describing manufacturing activities planned to occur within a fixed time period in the future, to modify the identified manufacturing plan based on the feedback, and to communicate the modified manufacturing plan to the advanced planning and scheduling modules.
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Abstract
A method for resource management and planning includes receiving manufacturing information associated with multiple distributed enterprise facilities; generating manufacturing plans based at least in part on the manufacturing information; receiving feedback regarding execution of the manufacturing plans; identifying at least one of the manufacturing plans describing manufacturing activities planned to occur within a fixed time period in the future; modifying the identified manufacturing plan based on the feedback; and communicating the modified manufacturing plan to the distributed enterprise facilities.
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1. A resource management and planning system comprising:
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one or more processors; and one or more tangible memory devices comprising one or more programs of instructions, the one or more programs of instructions comprising; a plurality of advanced planning and scheduling modules operable to track manufacturing information at a plurality of distributed enterprise facilities and to communicate the manufacturing information to a global planning engine; the global planning engine operable to receive the manufacturing information, to generate manufacturing plans based at least in part on the manufacturing information, and to communicate the manufacturing plans to the advanced planning and scheduling modules; and an intelligent order management module operable to receive feedback regarding execution of the manufacturing plans from the advanced planning and scheduling modules, to identify one of the manufacturing plans describing manufacturing activities planned to occur within a fixed time period in the future, to modify the identified manufacturing plan based on the feedback, and to communicate the modified manufacturing plan to the advanced planning and scheduling modules. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10)
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