SAP SE
Enhanced Resource Planning and Coordination

Abstract:

Data is received that encapsulates each of a plurality of resource requests that each specify a time interval and a requested resource. Thereafter, an array can be generated that includes a plurality of elements such that, for each request, there is a first element corresponding to the start time and a second element corresponding to the end time. The array can then be time sorted and after such sorting the array can be iterated through to identified, for each element in the array, a number of overlapping requests to generate a respective request count. Elements of the array can be updated based on the iterating to include the respective request counts. A capacity balance is then calculated for each element in the array based on available resource capacity and the corresponding respective request count. Data can then be provided that indicates capacity consumption levels for each requested time interval.