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US 8,301,518 B1Granted
System and method for inventory management and distribution
AssigneeAmerican Airlines, Inc.
InventorsMei Zhang, Shau-shiang Ja, Nancy Lee Lillo, Sameer Anand, Tuell Coleman Green, Steven James Oakley
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Abstract
A system and method for inventory management is provided. An indication of a removal of a first resource at a first location is received, and a risk value associated with the first resource at the location is calculated. A determination is made if the risk value is less than a predetermined threshold, and a request to transfer a second resource from a second location to the first location is generated.
Claims18
A computer-readable medium that is non-transitory,
- the computer readable medium comprising a series of instructions for execution by at least one computer processor, the series of instructions comprising:
- instructions for calculating a risk value associated with a number of resources at each of a plurality of locations, each of the resources comprising a part consumed in an industry;
- instructions for receiving notice of a removal of a first resource at a first one of the plurality of locations;
- instructions for calculating a risk value based on the remaining inventory of first resources at the first one of the plurality of locations, comprising:
- instructions for obtaining a time between removal mean value, the time between removal mean value equaling a mean of a plurality of first time values, each first time value equaling the time elapsed between one removal of a first resource from the inventory at the first one of the plurality of locations and a next removal of another first resource from the inventory at the first one of the plurality of locations subsequent to the one removal, and
- instructions for obtaining a transit time mean value, the transit time mean value equaling a mean of a plurality of second time values, each second time value equaling the time elapsed during the transfer of a first resource from a location other than the first one of the plurality of locations to the inventory at the first one of the plurality of locations;
- instructions for determining if the risk value is less than a predetermined threshold;
- instructions for generating a list of a plurality of locations that have an inventory of first resources;
- and
- instructions for generating a request to transfer a second resource from the inventory of first resources at a second one of the plurality of locations based on a second risk value based on the inventory of first resources at the second one of the plurality of locations.
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A method comprising:
- calculating, using at least one computer processor, a risk value associated with the number of resources at each of a plurality of locations, each of the resources comprising a part consumed in an industry;
- receiving notice of a removal of a first resource at a first one of the plurality of locations;
- calculating, using the at least one computer processor, a risk value based on the remaining inventory of first resources at the first one of the plurality of locations, comprising:
- obtaining a time between removal mean value, the time between removal mean value equaling the mean of a plurality of first time values, each first time value equaling the time elapsed between one removal of a first resource from the inventory at the first one of the plurality of locations and a next removal of another first resource from the inventory at the first one of the plurality of locations subsequent to the one removal, and
- obtaining a transit time mean value, the transit time mean value equaling the mean of a plurality of second time values, each second time value equaling the time elapsed during the transfer of a first resource from a location other than the first one of the plurality of locations to the inventory at the first one of the plurality of locations;
- determining, using the at least one computer processor, if the risk value is less than a predetermined threshold;
- generating, using the at least one computer processor, a list of a plurality of locations that have an inventory of first resources;
- and
- generating, using the at least one computer processor, a request to transfer a second resource from the inventory of first resources at a second one of the plurality of locations based on a second risk value based on the inventory of first resources at the second one of the plurality of locations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.