Travel inventory demand simulation

A method of analyzing travel inventory item management by an inventory system, the method comprising:

• storing one or more simulation rules that include one or more configuration settings;
• receiving simulated demand requests for a simulation period, wherein each simulated demand request includes one or more booking demand lines;
• generating, with at least one processor, one or more first availability requests based at least in part on the simulated demand requests, wherein the one or more first availability requests are associated with one or more inventory counters managed by the inventory system;
• receiving a first availability response from the inventory system for each of the one or more first availability requests that indicates an availability associated with each of the one or more inventory counters;
• simulating, with the at least one processor based at least in part on the one or more simulation rules and the availability associated with each inventory counter, a first booking decision associated with each inventory counter for a first portion of the simulation period by transforming each booking demand line of the simulated demand request into each first booking decision, wherein transforming each booking demand line includes injecting a first booking demand associated with each booking demand line into a first booking flow that simulates customer interaction with one or more servers of a reservation system;
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• storing, with the at least one processor, first simulation data for the simulation period based at least in part on the first availability requests, the first availability response for each first availability request, and the first booking decision associated with each inventory counter.

A computer program product comprising:

• a computer readable storage medium;
• and
• program code stored on the computer readable storage medium and configured, upon execution, to cause at least one processor to:
• store one or more simulation rules that include one or more configuration settings;
• receive simulated demand requests for a simulation period, wherein each simulated demand request includes one or more booking demand lines;
• generate one or more first availability requests based at least in part on the simulated demand requests, wherein the one or more first availability requests are associated with one or more inventory counters managed by the inventory system;
• receive a first availability response from the inventory system for each of the one or more first availability requests that indicates an availability associated with each of the one or more inventory counters;
• simulate, based at least in part on the one or more simulation rules and the availability associated with each inventory counter, a first booking decision associated with each inventory counter for a first portion of the simulation period by transforming each booking demand line of the simulated demand request into each first booking decision, wherein transforming each booking demand line includes injecting a first booking demand associated with each booking demand line into a first booking flow that simulates customer interaction with one or more servers of a reservation system;
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• store first simulation data for the simulation period in the data structure based at least in part on the first availability requests, the first availability response for each first availability request, and the first booking decision associated with each inventory counter.