Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Overstock inventory management at retail sales facilities
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Application No.: US15203482Application Date: 2016-07-06
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Publication No.: US09858547B2Publication Date: 2018-01-02
- Inventor: Matthew A. Jones , Nicholaus A. Jones , Robert J. Taylor , Marc A. Fletter , Daniel R. Shields
- Applicant: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Applicant Address: US AR Bentonville
- Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Current Assignee: Wal-Mart Stores, Inc.
- Current Assignee Address: US AR Bentonville
- Agency: Fitch, Even, Tabin & Flannery LLP
- Main IPC: G06Q90/00
- IPC: G06Q90/00 ; G06Q10/08 ; G06K19/06 ; G06K7/10

Abstract:
In some embodiments, methods and systems of sorting products at a retail sales facility include receiving identifying information associated with a product at the retail sales facility using an inventory management electronic device, obtaining a demand for the product from a time products identical to the product were delivered to the retail sales facility, calculating whether the demand for the product supports moving the product onto a sales floor of the retail sales facility or storing the product in a stock room of the retail sales facility, determining a characteristic for the product, and outputting, when the demand supports storing the product in the stock room, an indication to a worker at the retail sales facility that the product is to be stored in the stock room at a location selected based on the determined characteristic for the product.
Public/Granted literature
- US20170039514A1 OVERSTOCK INVENTORY MANAGEMENT AT RETAIL SALES FACILITIES Public/Granted day:2017-02-09
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