Multi-feature product inventory management and allocation system and method

US8428985B1 · kind B1 · utility

Assignee

• Ford Motor Company · US

Inventors

• Gintaras Vincent Puskorius · Novi, US
• Bryan Roger Goodman · Dearborn, US
• Robbie J. Aniol · Troy, US
• William Richard Fravel · Ann Arbor, US
• Yu-Ning Liu · Canton, US
• Melinda Kaye Hunsaker · Canton, US
• Shigeru Sadakane · Northville, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Sep 4, 2009
• Grant date: Apr 23, 2013
• Expiry date: Nov 30, 2030

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/00
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A data store includes, for a dealer of interest, a target inventory mix rate for an item having a feature. A computing device is configured to perform an optimization to obtain a recommended feature allocation of the item including the feature by minimizing a difference between a projected inventory mix rate for the feature and the target inventory mix rate for the feature.