DEVICE FOR DETERMINING CONFIGURATION OF BUSINESS UNITS AND METHOD FOR DETERMINING CONFIGURATION OF BUSINESS UNITS

摘要

The present invention determines a configuration of sites that enables low-cost operation under normal circumstances, and maintains the stockout rate of end products at an appropriate value when trouble occurs. A device for determining the configuration of sites, comprising: a storage unit for storing information about sites, including information about the names and classification of the sites, transportation information including information pertaining to supply routes between the sites, cost information including the cost generated by the manufacture and procurement of products and commodity items, and trouble probability information including the probability of trouble occurring at the sites; and a stockout rate and cost evaluation unit for calculating the stockout rate and cost of the end products by setting the lowermost stream of the information about the sites as the starting point and creating a plurality of combinations for the configuration of the sites while varying the allocation ratios of the supply routes included in the transportation information, setting a commodity item in the site constituting the uppermost stream in the information about the sites as a starting point for each of the resulting combinations for the configuration of the sites and tracing end users in accordance with the supply routes included in the transportation information, calculating the stockout rate of each of the commodity items for each of the sites from the trouble probability information, calculating the cost of each of the commodity items for each of the sites from the cost information, and accumulating the results.