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US 8,266,020 B2Granted
Methods and systems for collaborative demand planning and replenishment
AssigneeWebConcepts, Inc.
InventorRaymond Young
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Abstract
The present invention provides systems and methods for generating replenishment orders for products sold to a multi-store retailer. Store trait data is mapped with planogram information and the mapped data is used to generate a fixture level safety stock for a particular product in a particular store. The fixture level safety stock triggers fixture level replenishment orders.
Claims9
A method for generating replenishment orders for first and second products at a retail store, comprising:
- a vendor managed inventory system storing retail-level planogram information having fixture identifiers;
- the vendor managed inventory system receiving store-level capacity information at a fixture level regarding first and second fixtures where the fixtures are referenced by fixture identifiers;
- the vendor managed inventory system electronically receiving-store-level sales performance information regarding sales of the first and second products from the first fixture referenced by the fixture identifiers;
- the vendor manager inventory system generating store-level mapped data by matching fixture identifiers in the capacity information and sales performance with the planogram information;
- the vendor managed inventory system determining fixture-level relative replenishment levels for the first and second products as a function of the store-level mapped data;
- triggering a fixture-level replenishment order when a fixture-level perpetual quantity of the first and second products fall below a determined fixture-level safety stock for the first fixture relative to the to second fixture;
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- enabling a vendor to provide the replenishment levels of the first and second products to the store.
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