Prediction of future cash supply chain status
AssigneeBank of America Corporation
InventorsMichelle Nichols, Todd Atwood, James Heddleson
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Abstract
A method for predicting future cash supply chain status includes tracking a plurality of monetary packages as they move along a cash supply chain. An quantity of monetary items that is estimated to arrive at a point along the cash supply chain on a future day, can be determined, based on tracking the monetary packages. Actions can then be taken based on the estimated quantity of monetary items. The calculation may be further based on expected positions of additional future monetary packages that are scheduled or predicted, based on history, to be received into the cash supply chain.
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A method, comprising:
- tracking, by a computer system, a plurality of monetary packages throughout a cash supply chain, each of the monetary packages containing a plurality of monetary items;
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- determining a total quantity of monetary items that is estimated to arrive at a point along the cash supply chain at a future time, by the computer system, based on the tracking of the monetary packages and a quantity of monetary items in each monetary package;
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- changing at least one operating parameter at the point based on the determined total quantity of monetary items that is estimated to arrive at the point along the cash supply chain at the future time.
A method, comprising:
- tracking, by the computer system, a plurality of monetary packages throughout a cash supply chain;
- predicting, by the computer system, an additional monetary package to be received into the cash supply chain at a first future time, wherein the additional monetary package is not yet received into the cash supply chain and is not scheduled to enter into the cash supply chain;
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- determining a total quantity of monetary items that is estimated to arrive at a point along the cash supply chain at a second future time, by the computer system, based on the tracking of the monetary packages and the predicted additional monetary package.
A method, comprising:
- recording positions of a plurality of monetary packages at each of a plurality of points along a cash supply chain, by a computer system, each of the monetary packages containing a plurality of monetary items;
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- determining a total quantity of monetary items that is estimated to arrive at a selected point along the cash supply chain, by the computer system, based on the positions of the monetary packages and a quantity of monetary items in each of the monetary packages.
A method comprising:
- determining, by a computer system a quantity of monetary items that is estimated to arrive at a point along a cash supply chain at a plurality of future times;
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- coordinating, an arrival time of a transporter carrying at least some of the monetary items to the point, by the computer system, comprising instructing the transporter to arrive at the point at a modified arrival time that is different from an original scheduled arrival time of the transporter at the point, based on the quantity monetary items estimated to arrive at the point on at least one of the original scheduled arrival time and the modified arrival time.
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