COOPERATIVE STOCK OPTIMIZATION FOR INTEGRATIVE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT

摘要

In a stock rebalancing method, separate inventory holding clients areregistered,each as individual publishers of inventory level data, and further, separatetransporterclients also are registered each as individual publishers of transportcapacity. Then, anindication is received from one of the inventory holding clients, of anoverstock conditionof a specified item. Contemporaneously, an indication is received from anotherof theinventory holding clients of an understock condition of the specified item. Inresponse,one of the transporter clients is identified as indicating excess capacitysufficient to beartransport of the specified item in a quantity indicated by the understockcondition, theclients are messaged indicating the conditions, and the identified transportclient isdirected to transport the specified item in the indicated quantity from theone of theinventory clients indicating the overstock condition to the one of theinventory holdingclients indicating an understock condition.