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Doing it by hand is difficult, but the current LLM architectures are actually really good at exactly this. If instead of word tokens we had product tokens, the billion+ parameters of the network become a billion+ tracked inputs and outputs.
The original Gosplan systems used similar matrix calculations based on markov chains and statistical models, but computing those by hand took weeks instead of seconds.
Now a Mac Mini can do a decade of economic planning in a day.
(This is all assuming that production is networked and using a central system like what was attempted with Cybersyn and later adopted by the American multinationals)