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US 8,725,599 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.
Claims19
A vendor managed inventory system that manages inventory across stores of a retailer, the system comprising:
- a retailer network interface configured to communicate with the retailer over a network;
- and
- a vendor management inventory server communicatively coupled with the retailer via the network interface and configured to:
- receive store-level trait information comprising at least one store identifier, each of the at least one store identifier corresponding to a store and a set of fixture identifiers associated with each of the at least one store identifier, wherein each fixture identifier within the set of fixture identifiers corresponds to a fixture within the store;
- receive retailer planogram information comprising a product identifier corresponding to a product, at least one fixture identifier corresponding to a respective fixture associated with the product, and a product capacity associated with each of the at least one fixture identifier, corresponding to the capacity of product for the respective fixture;
- generate store-level mapped data by matching at least one fixture identifier from the retailer planogram information with a corresponding at least one fixture identifier from the set of fixture identifiers;
- determine a replenishment level for a product based on the store-level mapped data;
- and
- trigger a replenishment order when a safety stock level of the product falls below the replenishment level.
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