System and method for optimization-based production capability planning

摘要

A production capability system for automatically determining production capability quantities. The system includes a candidate generation process for generating possible production capability candidates and a quantity optimization module for calculating an optimal quantity availability for production capability candidate. The system also includes a calculation module for assigning quantities to all of the production capability candidates and means for generating a production report wherein production capability candidates and the optimal quantity are combined to generate a production capability availability which is stored in a specification for use by an external sales system. The candidate generation process and the quantity optimization module accept input data from a master database including priorities associated with different products and weights for different performance measures.