Steve Kakouros

20030046250, Mar 6, 2003

Aug 28, 2001

09/941448

Dorothea Kuettner - Mountain View CA, US
Steve Kakouros - Palo Alto CA, US

G06F017/00

705/400000

An integrated reliability and financial planning system. The system uses contemporary and historical information on product warranty events, shipments and installed base to determine expected events over time. Based upon the expected event rate and warranty structure, the warranty cost for a product is predicted over the warranty life of the product. The resources required for service and support of the product are determined, and accruals and de-accruals for warranty expenses are planned for automatically, The system also provides for the examination of alternative scenarios to determine the impact of warranty structural changes and event rate changes.

20030078831, Apr 24, 2003

Oct 18, 2001

10/045996

Dorothea Kuettner - Mountain View CA, US
Steve Kakouros - Palo Alto CA, US

G06F017/60

705/010000, 705/008000

A development environment for supply chain management decision support systems. A framework is provided for the automatic generation of a supply chain model based upon input data concerning product demand and the parts and products that flow through activity centers such as factories, hubs, depots and the like. Parts source nodes, internal demand nodes, and terminal demand nodes are interconnected using an interactive symbolic visual interface that provides for the interconnection of nodes representing the activity centers to create a supply network scenario within the model. The supply network scenario may include more than one supply chain with each product having a unique supply chain. For each scenario, the statistical characteristics of part and product flow through the supply chain nodes is calculated within the model.

7249068, Jul 24, 2007

Jun 30, 2000

09/608057

Steve Kakouros - Palo Alto CA, US
John J. Neale - Palo Alto CA, US
Gianpaolo Callioni - Palo Alto CA, US

Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. - Houston TX

G06G 1/00

705 28, 705 26

An inventory planning scheme is described in which an optimal safety stock level of a product is estimated to cover uncertainty in demand over an exposure period with a desired service level based at least in part upon product availability from a spot market. The inventory planning scheme enables an asset manager to cover uncertainty in future end customer demand with a safety stock level that is less than the safety stock level required to cover expected demand with a desired service level when supply is available only from non-spot market sources. In this way, an asset manager may trade some certainty in product price for a shorter and more certain product delivery time to reduce overall product costs by reducing the level of safety stock kept on hand. In particular, per unit prices of products supplied by spot market sources may be higher than the prices of comparable products and components supplied by non-spot market sources. However, depending upon market conditions, overall product costs may be lowered by reducing safety stock levels (and, consequently, lowering total safety stock costs), and supplying from spot market sources the fraction of unmet actual demand needed to reach target service levels.