US 12,093,865 B1
System and method of discrete planning for process industry
Raja Sekhar Kovvuri, Bangalore (IN); Vikash Jalan, Howrah (IN); Nimish Bhatnagar, Bangalore (IN); and Aakash Garg, Bangalore (IN)
Assigned to Blue Yonder Group, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed by Blue Yonder Group, Inc., Scottsdale, AZ (US)
Filed on May 26, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/331,134.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/030,654, filed on May 27, 2020.
Int. Cl. G06Q 10/0631 (2023.01); G06F 16/28 (2019.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01)
CPC G06Q 10/06315 (2013.01) [G06F 16/285 (2019.01); G06F 30/20 (2020.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system of supply chain planning of meat process industry production, comprising: a computer, comprising a processor and memory, the computer configured to:
model a supply chain planning problem for two or more products of a meat process industry, wherein a coproduct is produced for at least one of the products;
group the two or more products into groups, wherein the products in each of the groups share a same type of a first dimension;
receive a weight and a yield for each raw material that produces each of the products in at least one of the groups; cluster each of the raw materials using weight-yield clustering;
generate bill of material grouping based, at least in part, on the clustered raw materials;
assign one bill of material grouping to each of the raw materials of a single cluster, wherein at least one finished good is produced from any of the raw materials assigned to the one bill of material grouping, and wherein the one bill of material grouping reduces a quantity of produced co-products, which reduces an amount of processed product that is wasted; and
generate instructions based, at least in part, on the assigned one bill of material grouping, wherein the generated instructions instruct one or more automated machines to produce processed goods comprising one or more special cuts for a meat processor, and further wherein the generated instructions reduce an amount of meat that is wasted or placed in frozen storage.