Computer-implemented methods and computer systems for managing and valuating inventory

US8843403B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• SAP AG · DE

Inventors

• Udo Laub · Hambrücken, DE
• Ralf Kuehner · Stuttgart, DE
• Manfred Metz · Ditzingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Oct 20, 2004
• Grant date: Sep 23, 2014
• Expiry date: Jun 7, 2031

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/949
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Methods and computer systems are provided managing and valuating inventory. In one embodiment, a computer system may assign every item of goods which is entering a working process to an identifier. The computer system may then track the goods in the working process. Further, the computer system may update a given identifier when the goods assigned to this identifier enter another stage in the working process, assign at least one price to each stage in the working process, determine the content of one or more identifiers, and calculate a price for goods in the working process.