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Systems and methods for automated parallelization of transport load builder

  • US 8,423,391 B2
  • Filed: 07/28/2005
  • Issued: 04/16/2013
  • Est. Priority Date: 07/28/2005
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A computer-implemented method for creating a transport load for one or more transfers of goods within a supply chain, the method comprising:

  • accessing a parallel processing profile associated with a distribution plan of the supply chain, the distribution plan comprising a plurality of transport load processes executed in parallel, and the parallel processing profile specifying a maximum number of transportation lanes for the transport load processes;

    generating, using a processor, lane data associated with transportation lanes of the supply chain, wherein the generating step comprises;

    preparing a lanes table for a plurality of transportation lanes, the transportation lanes representing geographic routes between source locations and corresponding destination locations within the supply chain, the lanes table comprising the source locations, the destination locations, and sequence numbers that prioritize the plurality of transportation lanes;

    receiving, from a planning computer, a source location within the supply chain;

    selecting, from the lanes table, one or more of the transportation lanes for the lane data based on at least the received source location;

    filtering the selected transportation lanes based on at least the maximum number of transportation lanes specified by the parallel processing profile; and

    storing, in a storage medium, source locations, destination locations, and sequence numbers of the filtered transportation lanes to generate the lane data; and

    generating, using the processor, the transport loads based on the lane data associated with the selected transportation lanes by executing the transport load processes in parallel according to the parallel processing profile associated with the distribution plan.

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