Dynamic planning and configuration based on inconsistent supply

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10887162-B2
Application number	US-201514972546-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Dec 17, 2015
Priority date	Dec 17, 2015
Publication date	Jan 5, 2021
Grant date	Jan 5, 2021

Abstract

The embodiments relate to dynamic server drawer build plan management. Output data associated with a data source is received. A drawer build plan list and one or more inventory scenarios are generated based on the received data. At least one build plan is chosen from the build plan list, and one or more drawer design configurations are compared to at least one inventory scenario to produce a set of eligible drawer design configurations. A drawer design configuration is selected from the set for one or more respective drawer build plans based on one or more constraints. A connection is established to a computer, and information associated with each selected drawer design configuration is transmitted to the second computer.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system to configure server drawer build plans over a network to a remote subscriber computer, the system comprising:
a first computer in communication with a processor, the first computer having an installed application, wherein the application outputs data associated with a data source of the first computer, and wherein the output data comprises demand data and inventory data; and
a transmission server in communication with the first computer, the transmission server to receive the output data over a network connection, wherein the transmission server comprises memory for storing remote subscriber information, wherein the remote subscriber information comprises the received data and a destination address associated with a second computer, and wherein the transmission server comprises a processing device to:
generate a drawer build plan list comprising one or more drawer build plans based on the received dataset;
generate one or more inventory scenarios based on one or more inventory metrics associated with drawer components, wherein the drawer components comprise system controllers and central processors;
choose at least one drawer build plan from the drawer build plan list;
compare a plurality of drawer design configurations to at least one of the one or more inventory scenarios to produce a set of eligible drawer design configurations, wherein each drawer design configuration corresponds to a respective arrangement of the central processors by core number and performance level within slots of a drawer type of a respective chosen build plan;
select a drawer design configuration from the set of eligible drawer design configurations for one or more respective drawer build plans based on one or more constraints;
construct a list of one or more build plans based on demand data and the selected drawer design configuration; and
establish a connection to the second computer via the destination address, including transmit the constructed list to generate a build plan at a manufacturing site; and
manufacture a drawer for fulfilling an order based on the build plan generated at the manufacturing site.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the demand data reflects one or more demand quantities associated with one or more respective drawer build plans, and wherein generating the build plan list comprises the processor to arrange each drawer build plan within the list based on the respective demand quantities.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the inventory data comprises one or more inventory metrics associated with drawer component inventory, including a current inventory level, a forecasted inventory level, and a forecasted demand level, wherein the one or more inventory scenarios comprise an actual inventory scenario, an adjusted inventory scenario, and a revised inventory scenario.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the drawer type is associated with a minimum quantity of central processor cores.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more constraints comprise a constraint associated with drawer design configuration weight, and wherein a drawer design configuration having a lowest weight is selected from the set of eligible drawer design configurations.

6. The system of claim 1 , further comprising the processing device to format a drawer assignment list, including the processing device to assign each selected eligible drawer design configuration to a respective build plan, wherein the drawer assignment list comprises each selected drawer design configuration with its respective build plan, and wherein the transmitted information further comprises the drawer assignment list.

7. The system of claim 1 , further comprising the processing device to update the one or more inventory scenarios in response to the selection, wherein the transmitted information further comprises the one or more updated inventory scenarios.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the transmitted information further comprises a drawer design configuration diagram associated with each assigned drawer design configuration.

9. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a report transmitted to a manufacture site in real-time, the report including the list of one or more build plans.

10. The system of claim 1 , further comprising commencement of drawer production based on the constructed list of one or more build plans and drawer design configuration.

11. The system of claim 1 , wherein the one or more constraints comprise requiring the selected drawer design configuration to have the fewest amount of drawer components from the set of eligible drawer design configurations.

12. The system of claim 1 , further comprising a processing device to output a list of the eligible drawer design configurations.

13. A computer program product to configure server drawer build plans over a network to a remote subscriber computer, the computer program product comprising a computer-readable hardware storage device having computer-readable program code embodied therewith, the program code executable by a processor to:
provide an application to a remote subscriber for installation on a first computer;
output data associated with a data source of the first computer from the application, wherein the output data comprises demand data and inventory data; and
at a transmission server, receive the output dataset server over a network connection, wherein the transmission server comprises memory for storing remote subscriber information, the remote subscriber information comprising the received data and a destination address associated with a second computer, wherein the transmission server comprises a processing device, and wherein the processing device executes program code to:
generate a drawer build plan list comprising one or more drawer build plans based on the received dataset;
generate one or more inventory scenarios based on one or more inventory metrics associated with drawer components, wherein the drawer components comprise system controllers and central processors;
choose at least one drawer build plan from the drawer build plan list;
compare a plurality of drawer design configurations to at least one of the one of more inventory scenarios to produce a set of eligible drawer design configurations, wherein each drawer design configuration corresponds to a respective arrangement of the central processors by core number and performance level within slots of a drawer type of a respective chosen build plan;
select a drawer design configuration from the set of eligible drawer design configurations for one or more respective drawer build plans based on one or more constraints;
construct a list of one or more build plans based on demand data and the selected drawer design configuration; and
establish a connection to the second computer via the destination address, including transmit the constructed list to generate a build plan at a manufacturing site; and
manufacture a drawer for fulfilling an order based on the build plan generated at the manufacturing site.

14. The computer program product of claim 13 , wherein the one or more metrics comprise a current inventory level, a forecasted inventory level, and a forecasted demand level, and wherein the one or more inventory scenarios comprise an actual inventory scenario, an adjusted inventory scenario, and a revised inventory scenario.

15. The computer program product of claim 13 , further comprising program code executable by the processing device to format a drawer assignment list, including program code to assign each selected eligible drawer design configuration to a respective build pl

Assignees

• IBM

Inventors

• Boldrin Warren
• Mantilla Oswald J
• Mcallister Jason
• Saha Chanchal

Classifications

• H04L41/0806 Primary

  for initial configuration or provisioning, e.g. plug-and-play · CPC title

• H04L41/5041

  characterised by the time relationship between creation and deployment of a service · CPC title

• H04L67/141

  Setup of application sessions (admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70) · CPC title

• H04L67/10

  in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46) · CPC title