Policy Based Automation for a Supply Chain

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United States of America Patent

APP PUB NO 20120143643A1
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13289538

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A method for managing a supply chain includes: identifying a business context for the supply chain; identifying a set of business policy rules for the business context governing the relationship between entities involved in the supply chain; creating use-case description from the set of business policy rules; creating a plurality of executable code modules corresponding to the use-case description; specifying a plurality of name/value pair for modeling the set of business policy rules; provisioning the plurality of application server computers of the computer network system with the executable code modules; and provisioning a central directory database with the plurality of name/value pairs; whereby the computer network system, in response to events in business transactions between at least two entities involved in the supply chain, is operable to dynamically deliver at least one name/value pair from the central directory database and to execute at least one code module.

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PTC INC140 KENDRICK STREET NEEDHAM MA 02494

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Gangopadyay, Dipayan San Jose, US 2 28
Gil, Reynaldo Palo Alto, US 10 1069
Gordon, Simeon Fairburn, US 5 345
Nayak, Sandeep Fremont, US 9 365
Zhou, Jay Fremont, US 6 346

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