Title:
SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR BUDGETING, PLANNING, AND SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT
Document Type and Number:
WIPO Patent Application WO2006028803
Kind Code:
A3
Abstract:
A system and method for optimizing planned profitability and network design. The system integrates sales and marketing planning and budgeting with the supply chain. This integration is achieved by inclusion of data representative of non-physical sales (60, 62, 64), general, and administrative (SG&A) costs (58 60, 62, 64), by development of response curves including sales and marketing SG&A costs, and by development of capacitation cost curves including non-physical SG&A costs and supply chain costs. The optimality of the plan according to the present invention is made possible by applying optimization techniques to the integrated data. The optimality of the network design according to the present invention is made possible by making demands available for optimization.
Inventors:
DYBVIG ALAN J (US)
Application Number:
PCT/US2005/030813
Publication Date:
June 15, 2006
Filing Date:
August 31, 2005
Export Citation:
Assignee:
DYBVIG CONSULTING LLC (US)
DYBVIG ALAN J (US)
DYBVIG ALAN J (US)
International Classes:
G06Q10/00
Foreign References:
| US20030208392A1 | 2003-11-06 | |||
| US20030236721A1 | 2003-12-25 | |||
| US6738736B1 | 2004-05-18 |
Other References:
KAPLAN ET AL: "Customer Profitability Measurement and Management", HARVARD BUSINESS SCHOOL, May 2001 (2001-05-01)
COKINS: "Are All of Your Customers Profitable To You?", A SAS WHITE PAPER, 2003
COKINS: "Are All of Your Customers Profitable To You?", A SAS WHITE PAPER, 2003
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