System and method for managing the development and manufacturing of a beverage

• US 20070185759A1
• Filed: 11/30/2006
• Published: 08/09/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 01/23/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Oracle International Corporation (Oracle Corporation)
• Inventors: Kataria, Anjali, Ambekar, Vinay, Desai, Kamlesh
• Granted Patent: US 7,801,777 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/101 Collaborative creation, e.g. joint development of products or services
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/018 Certifying business or products

Abstract

A system and method for managing the development and manufacturing process of a beverage is disclosed. The method comprises capturing and recording the development and manufacturing history of the beverage in order to generate a product history. The product history is stored on a computer and is searchable in multiple data dimensions in order to easily retrieve information. The system automatically provides compliance management procedures in order to comply with regulatory standards for the beverage industry.

Claims

1. A method for managing the development and manufacturing of a beverage, the method comprising the steps of:

recording information about the beverage;

assigning the information to a data dimension corresponding to the information;

determining correlations between data dimensions;

determining a context to the information; and

searching the correlations of the data dimensions in response to the context in order to retrieve information about the development and manufacturing process of the beverage.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the information is assigned to one of a plurality of dimensions.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the information is assigned to at least one of a data dimension selected from the group consisting of material, people, standard, equipment, environment/facility and process.

4. The method of claim 1 wherein the context defines changes to the information over time and events.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the correlation relates to common information in different data dimensions.

6. A system for managing the development and manufacturing process of a beverage, the system comprising:

a plurality of recording modules for recording information about the development and manufacturing process of the beverage over time; and

a core module in communication with the recording modules, the core module being configured to provide a platform for the tracking of the information across multiple data dimensions.

7. The system of claim 6 wherein the core module is configured to assign the information to a data dimension.

8. The system of claim 6 wherein the core module is configured to assign the information to at least one of a data dimension selected from the group consisting of material, people, process, equipment, environment and standard.

9. A method for determining the manufacturing process of a beverage with a computer, the method comprising the following steps:

recording data relating to the development of the beverage with the computer;

recording data relating to the production of the beverage with the computer;

correlating the data in multiple dimensions with the computer; and

determining the manufacturing process of the beverage by searching the correlated data over time in order to determine the processes used in the manufacture of the beverage.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising the step of searching the correlated data over time with a context to determine the processes in the manufacture of the beverage.

11. The method of claim 9 wherein the correlated data can be searched to trace processes used in the manufacturing of the beverage.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein the correlated data can be searched to trace processes used in the manufacturing and development of the beverage.

13. The method of claim 9 wherein the correlated data can be searched to trace processes used in the development of the beverage.

14. The method of claim 9 wherein processes include ingredients used to develop and manufacture the beverage.

15. A method of recording a product history of a beverage with a computer, the method comprising the steps of:

capturing the development history of the beverage with a computer;

capturing the manufacturing history of the beverage with the computer;

recording the development history and the manufacturing history with the computer; and

generating a multi-dimensional data set of the manufacturing history and the development history of the beverage that is the product history of the beverage.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein the multi-dimensional data set is searchable in order to trace the history of the beverage.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein the method records the development history of the beverage.