Walmart Apollo, LLC

Wal-mart Stores, Inc.

Biomet Manufacturing Corporation

Other

Codman & Shurtleff, Inc.

Robert J Taylor

Matthew Allen Jones

Nicholaus Adam Jones

Aaron James Vasgaard

Daniel R Shields

Marc Ashley Fletter

Matthew David Alexander

Jason D Bellar

Jeffrey Scott Cruz

Todd Davenport Mattingly

William Mark Propes

Daniel Duane Fritzinger

Thomas M Vanasse

Roger Snelgrove

Nathan A Winslow

Bruce Walter Wilkinson

John C Crecelius, Jr

John Crecelius

Kevin T Stone

David C Winkle

Yurgis Mauro Bacallao

Greg A Bryan

Benjamin Isaiah Joseph

Jesse Berry

Rahul Tripathi

Nicholas Paul Dowd

Remington R Rice

Carlos R Alvarez

Gerald C Murphy

Leigh Ann Marie Scobey

Daniel Cruz

Jamison Lonnie Kyle Sibley

David L Vann

Donald R High

John Jeremiah O'Brien

Clinton E Kehres

Jason Todd

Michael Francis Kovacs

Robert G Kraus

Tim Webb

Jeremy L Velten

Joseph Wayne Hendricks

Nicholas Ray Antel

Lawrence Gulotta

Donald W Dye

Donald L Price

Shawn Morris Hodge

Jyoti Prakash Malik

John Buonanno

Lacrecia Lynn Billings

Linda S Price

Shawn M Hodge

Justin Smith

Jeffrey D Franklin

Melissa M Wacha

Mark McCrary

Smita Sharda

Megan Humphreys

Joshua Ridgeway

Patricia G Taylor

Leigh Ann Scobey

Judy L Taylor

Michael Dziekan

Kenneth Jeffrey Dobbs

William C Maestas

Sayak S Majumdar

Christopher S Hoheisal

A facility readiness inspection system and method are disclosed. Embodiments comprise an asset database comprising inspection task definition for assets. An inspection coordination application program interface (API) can create at least one periodic inspection task list. Each periodic inspection task list can include a number of tasks and assets, chosen based on the total time allotted for completion of the periodic inspection task list and the complexity of the inspection task definitions of each physical asset. Mobile electronic device can be configured to present the periodic inspection task list as a series of discrete tasks and to receive task list response data in response to each discrete task. Response data can be compared to benchmarks and standards, and issues can be escalated to external systems. An analytics engine can automatically produce inspection compliance documentation for each of the physical assets related to the periodic inspection task list.

Systems and methods for performing and tracking asset inspections

A technique for monitoring objects in a cart is disclosed. A cart is configured to receive an object and includes a plurality of sensors configured to detect a location of the cart and a characteristic of an object in the cart. The cart also includes a docking station that can receive an electronic device and operatively and electrically couple the sensors to the electronic device. A computing system is in communication with the electronic device and configured to access a database containing a stored list generated by the user. The computing can identify the object in the cart based, at least in part, on data received from the plurality of sensors and the location of the cart. The computing system can also determine whether the object in the cart is included on the stored list.

System, method, and machine-readable media for monitoring objects in a cart using sensors

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful for a retail facility to maintain information regarding product location, in part, from correlating a shopper's cart path and their purchased items with those of other shoppers. In some approaches, the methods and apparatuses may determine a cart path for a particular shopping cart by analyzing aisle markers captured by an image capturing device in the shopping cart, associate that cart path with the purchased items from that shopping cart, and compare the associated cart path and purchased items with similar information from other customers. In some examples, by comparing the associated cart paths and purchased items form a plurality of customers, an aisle location of one of the retail items is identified and the database of aisle locations and retail items may be updated accordingly.

Methods and systems for tracking carts and retail products in a shopping space

Shipment receiving systems and methods are disclosed. Invoice and store inventory management data is provided to an invoice processor for assigning expected destinations to lanes of a material transporter having and a plurality of outlet lanes that each have an indicator. A scanner determines a case identifier for each case which is routed accordingly. One or more notifications is provided to the indicator of one or more of the plurality of outlet lanes. Received shipment data enables reconciliation of upstream supply change management systems and downstream store inventory systems.

Shipment receiving systems and methods including notification and reconciliation features

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to reassigning meeting rooms. In some embodiments, a system comprises a mobile device configured to receive user input to request a meeting room, determine a location of the mobile device, and transmit an indication of the request, the location of the mobile device, and the user, sensors associated with the meeting rooms configured to detect occupancy of the meeting rooms, a scheduling database configured to store scheduling information for the meeting rooms, the control circuit configured to receive the indication of the request, the location of the mobile device, and the user, determine that all meeting are booked, receive occupancy information for the meeting rooms, determine that one of the meeting rooms is unoccupied, reassign the one of the meeting rooms to the user, and cause transmission of a notification that the one of the meeting rooms has been reassigned.

Systems and methods for managing meeting spaces

In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to the sortation of products using a conveyor assembly. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for receiving and sorting products shipped to a shopping facility including: a delivery location at a shopping facility configured to receive a shipment of products; a conveyor assembly comprising: a product identification module configured to read identification data from an identification label disposed on a product; a plurality of sortation modules configured to move the product to one of a predetermined plurality of sortation destination areas; a control circuit operatively coupled to the product identification module and to each of the sortation modules, the control circuit configured to: receive the identification data from the product identification module; determine the sortation destination area for the product based at least on one of shopping facility data and shipping data regarding the product as sortation criteria; and cooperate with the plurality of sortation modules to move the product to the determined sortation destination area.

Systems and methods for sortation of products using a conveyor assembly

Systems, apparatuses, and methods are provided herein for user access to smart locks at a retail shopping facility. In one embodiment, a system for user access to smart locks at a retail shopping facility includes an access member, a smart lock securing the access member, and a control circuit. The control circuit configured to receive authentication data from the user interface device; determine whether the authentication data matches within a threshold of stored authentication data associated with a profile stored in a database; determine that the user is a trusted user based on the determination that the authentication data matches with the stored authentication data within the threshold; and provide an optical key to the user interface device, wherein the smart lock is configured to unlock the access member in response to receiving the optical key from the user interface device.

Systems and methods for determining and executing trusted user access

System and methods for dynamic replenishment in a facility are disclosed. A mobile inventory processing device reads a machine readable tag affixed to a perishable item and transmits an indication of the perishable item to a stock inventory processing device. The stock inventory processing device retrieves a stock inventory value corresponding to the perishable item and a historic daily sales value for the perishable item from a database. The stock inventory processing device determines a restocking value based on whether the historic daily sales value exceeds the stock inventory value. The stock inventory processing device transmits a second indication to the mobile inventory processing device. The second indication correspond to insufficient shelf stock of the perishable item. The mobile inventory processing device receives the second indication and outputs an auditory alert in response to the second indication.

System and method for dynamic perishable item replenishment

Methods and apparatuses are provided to automatically identify overstated perpetual inventory (PI) conditions regarding an inventory level of an item in a retail space. For example, in some embodiments, a method performed by a control circuit comprises determining () that, a plurality of times, an item for sale at a retail store sells within a defined tolerance of a non-zero inventory quantity value and then stops selling for a period of time; and making () a determination that an overstated PI condition exists with respect to an inventory level of the item at the retail store. In some embodiments, the overstated PI condition is automatically quantified and may be automatically corrected.

Apparatus and method of identifying an overstated perpetual inventory in a retail space

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing adequate instructions to conduct an inventory of a store, and specifically a pre-inventory of difficult to count items. As store are selected for performing an inventory, instructions to perform pre-counts of specific items are sent. As the pre-count begins, videos, text, or other materials needed to perform a complete pre-count are distributed to the store associate performing the pre-count task. If the pre-count is outside pre-defined thresholds, an additional task to re-count the item may be assigned. Based on these actions, the set of rules used to identify when the re-count should occur can be modified.

System and method for iterative improvements to pre-count inventory rules

In some embodiments, methods and systems of managing bins audits in a stock room of a retail sales facility include generating at least one bin audit management factor for the bins at the retail sales facility. The bin audit management factor can include an amount of time a total number of products stored in the bin does not change; a number of times a one product is binned or picked from the bin, a number of products stored in the bin; and an accuracy percentage of a worker at the retail sales facility during a preceding audit of the bin. Based on whether the value of one or more of the bin audit management factors meets a predetermined threshold value that supports the auditing of a bin, an indication to a worker at the retail sales facility is generated as to whether that bin is to be audited or not.

Methods and systems for managing stock room bin audits at retail sales facilities

A technique for monitoring the quality of objects is disclosed. A container includes a multiple sensors and is configured to receive an object. The sensors monitor various metrics associated with the quality of the object, and a display is affixed to the container for displaying a visual indication of the quality of the object. The visual indication is based on data collected from the sensors. A quality monitoring module is executed by a processor to control the sensors to switch operation between a first mode of operation and a second mode of operation based on a detected change in one of the metrics monitored by the sensors.

Systems, devices, and methods for object quality monitoring

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Rogers, AR, United States of America

Robert J Taylor