公开(公告)号：US20180012158A1

公开(公告)日：2018-01-11

申请号：US12981376

申请日：2010-12-29

申请人： Pawel M. Cholewinski ,  Xiao Yu Li ,  Kalyanaraman Prasad

发明人： Pawel M. Cholewinski ,  Xiao Yu Li ,  Kalyanaraman Prasad

IPC分类号： G06Q10/06 ,  G06Q30/06 ,  G06Q10/08

CPC分类号： G06Q10/0633 ,  G06Q10/08 ,  G06Q10/087 ,  G06Q30/06

摘要： A method and system for increasing the expected availability of fast-delivery offers to customers. A method may include identifying a total number of units of a plurality of items to be stored in one or more fulfillment centers. In some cases, the items may be a product or a group of products. The method may also include receiving an order forecast of expected orders for each of the plurality of items and determining, for each of the plurality of items, a portion of the expected orders that is expected to be fulfilled by the one or more fulfillment centers. The method may then include calculating based, at least in part, on the total number of units, the order forecast, and the portion of the expected orders, a target inventory of each of the plurality of items that increases an expected availability of a given delivery offer to future customers.