Inventory control system
AssigneeIntel Corporation
InventorsMichael Rosenweig, Rezaur Rahman
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Abstract
An inventory control system includes a computer system which may be coupled to a bar code scanner to allow items added to the inventory or deleted from the inventory to be scanned. The scanner may be mounted on an inventory storage container to facilitate inventory control. When the inventory of a particular item falls below a given level, an indication can be provided to assist in inventory control. A given list of items can be compared to the available inventory to determine whether the list of items is available. In addition, the inventory can be compared to a plurality of such lists to determine which lists are available in inventory.
Claims15
A method of providing a set of producible products comprising:
- preparing an inventory of items on a computer;
- obtaining a set of lists of items, each list comprising a set of items needed to produce a product;
- determining by computer those lists for which all the items on a list are available in inventory, and
- reporting products that have an associated list which can be filled from available inventory.
An article comprising a machine readable storage medium that stores instructions that cause a computer to:
- prepare an inventory;
- obtain a set of lists of items, each list comprising a set of items needed to produce a product;
- determine whether all the items on one of the lists are available in inventory, and
- report products that have an associated list which can be filled from available inventory.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.