International Business Machines Corporation

Peter Korevaar

Karl Fleckenstein

Gunter Dueck

Ulrich B Schimpel

Andreas Rudolph

Hans-Martin Wallmeier

Tobias Scheuer

Richard A Boedi

Heinrich Stuettgen

Martin M&auml;hler

Thomas Holey

Sven Viergutz

The present invention relates to a method, computer system and computer program for stock keeping. An embodiment of the invention determines forecast values of quantities to be consumed of a stock keeping unit for at least two different forecast time spans depending on a historical consumption data. The invention further determines order values of order quantities for each forecast value depending on a respective forecast value, stock keeping costs and ordering costs. The invention further determines an associated order quantity time span for each order value. The invention further determines a respective pair of forecast value and order value with the least deviation between forecast time span and order quantity time span from forecast values, forecast values respective forecast time spans, the order values and the order values respectively associated with order quantity time spans. The invention further processes the determined pair of forecast value and determined order value.

Method for stock keeping, computer system and computer program

Disclosed is a mechanism to control telecommunication connections via digital switching networks like the ISDN. Frequently observed scenarios are a caller who is connected to an answering machine, although he intended to talk to a human individual, or where a node is shared by more than one individual and the caller wants to talk to a definite person likewise. Subscriber information is interchanged between a calling device and a called device before setting up the connection which is utilized to inform the caller about the device type at the called side or to inform the called side about the desired person. In the ISDN, a called device sends an ALERTING message to a switching center before accepting the connection. The switching center forwards a part of that message to the calling device which includes the so-called USER&mdash;USER Information Element (UUIE). In that USER&mdash;USER IE, an information like &ldquo;UNDER THE CALLED NUMBER AN ANSWERING MACHINE IS BECOMING ACTIVE&rdquo; can be coded. The USER&mdash;USER IE is transmitted by the ISDN network transparently to the calling device and thus can be presented to the calling participant via a display device. Alternatively, a different dial tone can be generated by the calling device to inform the participant about the answering machine.

Mechanism to control telecommunication connections in a digital switching network

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Meckesheim, Germany

Peter Korevaar