Patents by Inventor Edward P. Langan

Edward P. Langan has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Closed loop demand fulfillment system and method
    Patent number: 6920427
    Abstract: A demand fulfillment system and method to provide current supply and demand to generate a work schedule and a material delivery schedule for manufacturing items, particularly commodities, built to customer order. The demand fulfillment system and method uses outstanding customer orders for items as an accurate measure of current demand, and a current state of an available inventory of material for producing the items as an accurate measure of current supply. Customer orders are considered a source of demand from the time the customer order is received until the customer order is fulfilled. Material available to the factory is considered to be part of supply regardless of location of the material. A work schedule and a material delivery schedule are generated periodically using the current state of the available inventory and outstanding customer orders to keep up with consumption of materials and fulfillment of customer orders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: Dell Products L.P.
    Inventors: Richard M. Anthony, Kevin T. Jones, Mark R. Graban, Stephen C. Cook, Edward P. Langan, David W. McGuire, Shay D. Scott
  • Closed loop demand fulfillment system and method
    Publication number: 20020103709
    Abstract: A demand fulfillment system and method to provide current supply and demand to generate a work schedule and a material delivery schedule for manufacturing items, particularly commodities, built to customer order. The demand fulfillment system and method uses outstanding customer orders for items as an accurate measure of current demand, and a current state of an available inventory of material for producing the items as an accurate measure of current supply. Customer orders are considered a source of demand from the time the customer order is received until the customer order is fulfilled. Material available to the factory is considered to be part of supply regardless of location of the material. A work schedule and a material delivery schedule are generated periodically using the current state of the available inventory and outstanding customer orders to keep up with consumption of materials and fulfillment of customer orders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2001
    Publication date: August 1, 2002
    Inventors: Richard M. Anthony, Kevin T. Jones, Mark R. Graban, Stephen C. Cook, Edward P. Langan, David W. McGuire, Shay D. Scott