71 results about "Stock keeping unit" patented technology

A method for providing a supply chain management tool may include generating a representation of a supply chain of an organization where the representation is generated responsive to identification of supply chain entities and corresponding flows therebetween. The flows may include transactional layer activities at a stock keeping unit level. The method may further include referencing the representation to determine historical data indicative of supply chain performance, and utilizing processing circuitry to employ the historical data to generate at least one prediction regarding future operating performance of the supply chain.

A computer-implemented method and system for providing incentives to consumers based on product level data. Information relating to an incentive is defined and stored using, for example, a database accessible by a processing unit. The information relating to the incentive may include a product identifier, such as a stock keeping unit (SKU) number corresponding to a particular product or service. During a transaction between a merchant and a consumer, information may be transmitted to a processing unit, which determines if the information contains the product identifier corresponding to that specified to qualify for the incentive. Information related a payment medium used by the consumer in the transaction may be received and compared to information from an issuer of the payment medium to verify the transaction. The incentive may be provided via a credit to the payment account, or as an online virtual reward on a social networking or gaming website.

Embodiments for determining insurance valuations are included in systems that receive e-receipt data, including stock keeping unit (SKU) level data from a customer and compare the e-receipt data with transaction data. The systems match the e-receipt data to one or more transactions based on the comparison, identify at least one insurance related transaction from the one or more transactions based on the SKU level data, calculate the value of an insurance claim based on the at least one insurance related transaction.

An order-picking installation, a method for order picking and an order-picking system for the purpose of fully automated repacking of stock-keeping units from an inbound unit having a plurality of identical stock-keeping units into an outbound unit having a plurality of different stock-keeping units. The installation, method and system includes a separating station for separating the stock-keeping units, which are delivered in an inbound unit composed of a plurality of identical items, into stock-keeping units and / or sub-units of several stock-keeping units, a small-parts store including a storage location for each type of stock-keeping unit, with an item-storing position and an item-retrieval position, and a stacking and / or packaging station for assembling different stock-keeping units and / or sub-units in an outbound unit.

The application discloses a method and device for updating stock record information in a database. The method comprises the following steps: determining an SKU (stock keeping unit) stock record to be changed after receiving a request from application for change of the stock record of a designated commodity target; modifying the SKU stock record to be changed, and writing the change information of the SKU stock record in a log file of the database; when preset conditions are met, reading the log file of the database to obtain the latest change records in the database concerning the SKU stock record, wherein the latest change records comprise the change records generated from the previous reading moment to the current reading moment; calculating the difference between the SKU stock record before the changes and the SKU stock record after the changes according to the latest change records; reading a total stock record of the designated commodity target in the database, and updating the value of the total stock record according to the difference. The application can guarantee the data consistency while improving the system response efficiency.

The present invention relates to an RFID-based intelligent storage cabinet and its management method, while utilizing the shielding effect enabled by each partitions for allowing any electromagnetic wave in one compartment to transmit only inside the confinement of such compartment without interfering another compartment. Each stock keeping unit (SKU) that is to be stored in the RFID-based intelligent storage cabinet is attached with at least one RFID tag, and different SKUs of different usages are sorted so as to be stored in different compartments. Moreover, each RFID reader can be designed to function according to the command of a control device for scanning the corresponding compartment in a periodic manner or non-periodic manner, by that any SKU that is stored in the corresponding compartment can be detected and identified as each RFID reader is also connected to an inventory database, a database of item list, or a memory database.

A system for managing product inventory includes an Internet-connected server and software executing on the server from a non-transitory physical medium, the software providing establishment of a first association of at least one stock keeping unit (SKU) and any associated metadata including product availability counts to at least one point in time and or at least one time range identified within an interactive shopping media presentation, establishment of a second association of at least one potential consumer to the interactive shopping media presentation, monitoring for and tracking of interaction sequences initiated by the at least one potential consumer, the interaction sequences enabled from within the interactive shopping media presentation or from within an interactive display associated thereto, and adjustment of the SKU-based product availability counts in the SKU metadata relative to the latest interaction results.

An inventory modeling and management system and method, within an inventory distribution system having multiple fulfillment nodes and distributing an inventory of multiple stock keeping units (SKUs), comprises determining whether there are inventory excesses and shortfalls for selected SKUs at selected fulfillment nodes, and analyzing the inventory excesses and shortfalls for rebalancing opportunities and taking reserves for each selected SKU within and between the selected fulfillment nodes.

A simplified inventory management method. The method employs a plurality of stock-keeping unit labels, with each of the plurality of stock-keeping unit labels having a same stock-keeping unit number. Individual ones of the plurality of stock-keeping unit labels are utilized to track individual items of a plurality of items. A sale price of individual ones a first set of the plurality of items is different from a sale price of individual ones of a second set of the plurality of items.

A method for sales and inventory management of items offered for sale by at least one merchant and supplied by at least one vendor is disclosed. The method may include configuring a sales and inventory management utility and report generator using a processor coupled to a data storage device. It may also include receiving, by the sales and inventory management utility, a plurality of sets of retailer inventory data from a plurality of retailer systems, wherein each set of retailer inventory data identifies a plurality of items, a tag, and for each of the plurality of items, a stock keeping unit (SKU), a quantity in stock, a retailer, and a vendor. The method may store the plurality of sets of retailer inventory data as a plurality of retailer item records stored on the data storage device, each item record identifying an item of the plurality of items, the SKU, the quantity in stock, a retailer code for the retailer system, and a vendor code for the vendor, and then receive, by the sales and inventory management utility, point-of-sale data feeds from one or more retailer systems from the plurality of retailer systems, wherein the point-of sale data feeds comprises sales data, wherein the sales data identifies one or more items of the plurality of items, a retailer, and a quantity sold. For each of the one or more items identified in the sales data, the method may update, by the sales and inventory management utility, the retailer item record on the data storage device by adjusting the quantity in stock based on the quantity sold, and generate, by the report generator, a sales and inventory report based on the sales inventory data stored on the data storage device.

A method for multi-selection gifting, including maintaining a merchandise database comprising records for merchandise for a plurality of merchants, each record including a stock keeping unit (SKU) for an item of merchandise, a description of the item, a price of the item, and the merchant for the item, maintaining a gift database comprising records for multi-selection gifts, each record including at least one gift recipient, a plurality of SKU's for items of merchandise, and at least one selection rule for selecting at least one of the items of merchandise, interactively enabling a gift giver to generate a multi-selection gift for a gift recipient, Interactively guiding the gift recipient to select at least one of the items of merchandise in the multi-selection gift in accordance with the gift's at least one selection rule, aggregating the at least one item selected by the gift recipient according to merchant, issuing purchase orders to each merchant in accordance with the aggregated selected items corresponding to such merchant, and billing the gift giver according to the at least one item of merchandise selected by the gift recipient. A system and a computer-readable storage medium are also described and claimed.

A simplified inventory management method. The method employs a plurality of stock-keeping unit labels, with each of the plurality of stock-keeping unit labels having a same stock-keeping unit number. Individual ones of the plurality of stock-keeping unit labels are utilized to track individual items of a plurality of items. A sale price of individual ones a first set of the plurality of items is different from a sale price of individual ones of a second set of the plurality of items.

The invention discloses a processing method and system of stock information of goods objects. The method comprises the following steps: a server receiving an order request of a goods object stock keeping unit (SKU), wherein the order request carries goods identification information, goods quantity information and reservation dispensing time in entity stock; receiving a virtual stock operation request of the goods object SKU, wherein the operation request carries arrival time; determining order information whose reservation dispensing time is later than the arrival time in an order table; and according to the goods quantity information in order information, updating values of on-sale quantity fields in the entity stock so that on-sale service of the goods object SKU can be provided according to the values of the on-sale quantity fields in the entity stock. According to the embodiments of the invention, before a virtual stock does not reaches an entity warehouse yet, sale service is provided for front consumers in advance, such that waste of stock resources, caused by long-term occupation of the entity warehouse by goods can be avoided, the stock turnover rate is also improved, and the cost for warehouse renting is decreased.

A system and method for determining whether a supply chain network resource may be replenished by manufacture in order to meet demand as defined by an order. The system and method is an attribute-based system and method that may be part of an overall system and method for planning the use of supply chain network resources. The planning system and method may use configurations and bills of material, both of which may be defined by stock keeping units, subordinate stock keeping units and stock keeping unit attribute definition groups, in order to determine whether a resource may be replenished by manufacture. In determining a solution, the system and method may take into account, user and customer preferences including scheduling goals.

The disclosure includes a system and method for distinguishing between stock keeping units of similar appearance that vary in size. An image recognition application receives an image including a shelving unit stocking a plurality of items, identifies each item in the image, generates a region of interest for each identified item in the image, identifies a physical dimension of a portion of region depicted in the image, determines a dimension of the region of interest for each identified item and the portion of region in pixels, determines a pixel-to-physical dimension ratio using the dimension in pixels of the portion of region and the physical dimension of the portion of region depicted in the image, and determines a stock keeping unit identifier of each identified item in the image based on the pixel-to-physical dimension ratio and the dimension of the region of interest for each identified item.

An electronic price tag system for stock keeping units (SKUs) having three components: an ID module, a Remote Display Module (RDM), and a remote display control module (RDCM). The ID module and / or the RDCM may contain display elements. The RDM receives information from a vendor's legacy central computer system (LCCS) or marketing computer system (MCS). Communication between the LCCS / MCS and the RDCM is mediated by an RF Communication Module. The RDCM is reusable and may have a limited transmission range to limit access to LCCS / MCS information and security elements triggered by unauthorized removal.

A computer-implemented approach for organizing input listings from various sources of input listings. Input listings are organized by mapping the input listings to consolidated listing that correspond to the input listings. The mapping of the input listings are based on various techniques such as a Stock Keeping Unit item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching technique, a name / title item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching technique, and a model item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching technique.

The invention discloses self-service equipment, replenishment management method and device of the self-service equipment, a server and a replenishment management system. The self-service equipment comprises an equipment body, a door, at least one layer of shelf and a weighing device for weighing goods on each shelf. The replenishment management method comprises the steps as follows: weight information of goods on each shelf after replenishment this time is acquired; the replenishing weight of each layer of shelf this time is calculated according to the weight information of goods on the shelfafter replenishment this time and weight information of goods on the shelf before replenishment this time; goods information replenished this time is sorted out according to the replenishment weight this time and SKU (stock keeping unit) information of pre-stored goods; the goods information replenished this time is recorded in a good management database. Automatic management of replenishment information of the self-service equipment can be realized, the labor cost can be saved, and the self-service equipment is more efficient.

A computer-implemented method for real-time and continuous inventory management using a multi-level inventory management system comprising peripheral device(s) in data communication with some number of warehouse server(s), aggregation server(s), and sales channel server(s). A warehouse server may employ real-time physical inventory parameters received from a peripheral device to manage stock keeping unit (SKU) counts and locations as shipping orders, purchase orders, and bin transfer orders are serviced. An aggregation server may compile physical it parameters received from warehouse server(s) into available inventory used to service sales orders, reserve orders, and pre-sell orders. An aggregation server may also modify available inventory to address the status of servicing warehouses (e.g., unsellable, sellable, and dropship).

A computer-implemented approach for organizing input listings from various sources of input listings. Input listings are organized by mapping the input listings to consolidated listing that correspond to the input listings. The mapping of the input listings are based on various techniques such as a Stock Keeping Unit item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching technique, a name / title item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching technique, and a model item-listing-to-consolidated-listing matching technique.

The invention discloses a service processing system, a second kill order processing method and equipment. The service processing system comprises a first cluster server, a second cluster server and a cache server, wherein the first cluster server is used for limiting the number of people entering the second cluster server; the second cluster server is used for generating and submitting a second kill order; and the cache server is used for storing the ID of a user generating the second kill order and the SKU (Stock Keeping Unit) of a second kill commodity. The system, the method and the equipment solve the problem that a large amount of manpower and material resources are needed in processing of second kill activities in existing e-commerce platforms, and achieve the technical effect of simply and efficiently processing second kill activity orders.

The disclosure includes a system and method for distinguishing between items of similar appearance that vary in size. An image recognition application receives an image including a plurality of items, identifies each item in the image, generates a region of interest for each identified item in the image, determines a dimension of the region of interest for each identified item in pixels, determines a plurality of pixel-to-physical dimension ratios for each identified item, identifies a selected pixel-to-physical dimension ratio among the plurality of pixel-to-physical dimension ratios, and determines a stock keeping unit identifier of each identified item in the image based on the selected pixel-to-physical dimension ratio and the dimension of the region of interest for each identified item.

The disclosure includes a system and method for distinguishing between stock keeping units of similar appearance that vary in size. An image recognition application receives an image depicting a plurality of items, the image including a reference marker with a known physical dimension. The image recognition application performs image recognition to identify an item in the image and a region of interest for the identified image. The image recognition application further determines a pixel-to-physical dimension ratio using the dimension of a region of interest of the reference marker and the known physical dimension of the reference marker. Finally, the image recognition application determines a stock keeping unit identifier of the identified item in the image based on the pixel-to-physical dimension ratio and a dimension of the region of interest of the identified item.

The invention provides methods for controlling warehousing, delivery and inventory of materials and a material management system. The method for controlling warehousing of materials comprises the following steps: acquiring material information corresponding to a warehousing list in response to a material warehousing instruction; determining a target shelf identifier related to the material information according to the material information; scheduling a carrying robot to carry a target shelf from a material warehouse to a target operation position according to the determined target shelf identifier; determining a storage goods allocation corresponding to each stock keeping unit (SKU) of to-be-warehoused materials respectively according to the material information and goods allocation information on a target shelf, and controlling a guiding device to indicate the goods allocation corresponding to the SKU; and scheduling the carrying robot to carry the target shelf where the to-be-warehoused materials are placed back to the material warehouse. According to the embodiment of the invention, the carrying robot is scheduled to carry the shelves to the target operation position, and a worker only needs to warehouse, deliver and check the materials at the target operation position according to an operation instruction of a laser guiding device and the corresponding display of display equipment, so that the working efficiency is improved.

The disclosure includes a system and method for distinguishing between stock keeping units of similar appearance that vary in size. An image recognition application receives an image depicting a plurality of items, identifies each item in the image, generates a region of interest for each identified item in the image, determines a pixel dimension of the region of interest for each identified item, determines whether one of the identified items in the image is a reference marker with a stored physical dimension, determines a pixel-to-physical dimension ratio for the reference marker using the dimension in pixels and stored physical dimension of the reference marker, and determines a stock keeping unit identifier of each identified item in the image based on the pixel-to-physical dimension ratio and the pixel dimension of the region of interest for each identified item.

A campaign offers and rewards system includes an offer serving engine that provides offers or rewards. An analytics engine, with data intelligence, identifies receipt line items and ties the line items, including uniform price code (“UPC”), stock keeping unit (“SKU”) or product short name from different receipts to create a list of products and services not matched to advertisers. A redemption engine is in communication with a database that includes a reward budget. The redemption engine assists in controlling the redemption of rewards in view of the reward budget and in response to a communication from the analytics engine.

A method for translating a stock keeping unit (SKU) hierarchy in a customer order to a type-model-feature (TMF) structure in a vendor's order fulfillment system. A translation table relating the SKU hierarchy and TMF structure is defined. The SKU hierarchy includes SKU numbers that identify a configurable part and configurable options that specify a product. An initial order for the product includes the SKU hierarchy. Using the translation table, the SKU numbers are translated into an instance of the TMF structure. A multi-value characteristic is populated with values that include the SKU numbers and subline identifiers. A second order for the product is created that includes the instance of the TMF structure and subline values associated with the SKU number that identifies the configurable part.

A method for providing reports associated with improving supply chain performance may include generating a representation of a supply chain of an organization where the representation is generated responsive to identification of supply chain entities and corresponding flows therebetween. The flows may include transactional layer activities at a stock keeping unit level. The method may further include referencing the representation to define data groupings based on supply chain similarities, establishing baseline data and at least one scenario, and employing the defined data groupings to run a test relative to the at least one scenario, via processing circuitry, to generate performance results relative to the baseline data.

A method for selectively adjusting a price associated with an inventory stock keeping unit (SKU) stored in a catalog database of a plurality of inventory SKUs is disclosed. At least a subset of the plurality of inventory SKUs in the catalog database are retrieved. A total sales volume value of a sum of each of the sale quantity values associated with the inventory SKUs is generated. An ordered list of the retrieved inventory SKUs based upon a ranking of the associated sale quantity values is generated. Each of the retrieved inventory SKUs are assigned to a one of a plurality of sales segment categories that is based upon the total sales volume value. There is a step of generating a revised price value for each of the associated inventory SKUs in a selected one of the assigned sales segment categories. A revised list of the retrieved inventory SKUs with the revised price values substituted for the initial price values.