Planogram compliance
OwnerJames Hendrickson, Lori Pike +3inventors
InventorsJames Hendrickson, Lori Pike, Cedric Oudard, Giovanni Di Santo, Justin Volz
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Abstract
A compliance method involves, for example, storing actual product placement data describing a display arrangement of actual product placements; at one or more programmed processors: comparing the actual product placement data with planned product placement as defined in a planogram; creating a set of one or more instructions for rearrangement of the actual product placement to bring the actual product placement in the display arrangement into compliance with the planned product placement as defined in the planogram; and outputting the set of instructions.
Claims20
A method, comprising:
- auditing a display arrangement to generate actual product placement data representing actual product placement in the display arrangement;
- at one or more programmed processors:
- comparing the actual product placement data with planned product placement as defined in a planogram;
- creating a set of one or more instructions for rearrangement of the actual product placement to bring the actual product placement in the display arrangement into compliance with the planned product placement as defined in the planogram;
- and
- outputting the set of instructions.
A method, comprising:
- storing actual product placement data describing a display arrangement of actual product placements;
- at one or more programmed processors:
- comparing the actual product placement data with planned product placement as defined in a planogram;
- creating a set of one or more instructions for rearrangement of the actual product placement to bring the actual product placement in the display arrangement into compliance with the planned product placement as defined in the planogram;
- and
- outputting the set of instructions.
A method, comprising:
- storing actual product placement data describing a display arrangement of actual product placements;
- at one or more programmed processors:
- comparing the actual product placement data with planned product placement as defined in a planogram;
- creating a set of one or more instructions for rearrangement of the actual product placement to bring the actual product placement in the display arrangement into compliance with the planned product placement as defined in the planogram;
- where the instructions comprise one or more of the following:
- an instruction to add product at a specified location in the display arrangement, an instruction to shift a product at a specified location in the display arrangement to the left or to the right, and an instruction to remove a product at a specified location in the display arrangement;
- and
- outputting the set of instructions.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.