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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Nov. 10, 2020
Filed:
Jan. 26, 2017
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Siddharth K. Saraya, Raniganj, IN;
Anurag Srivastava, Pune, IN;
International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);
Abstract
Processors configured by aspects of the present invention collect pricing metrics that are applicable to restocking operations executed to restock different individual commodities within different respective ones of a plurality of networked bins. In response to determining that a quantity of a first commodity within a first of the bins is below a threshold restocking level, processors combine a first restocking operation that restocks a first restocking quantity of the first commodity within the first bin with a second restocking operation that restocks a second restocking quantity of a second commodity within a second bin of the plurality of bins into a combined restocking operation, in response to determining that executing the combined restocking operation generates a combination cost saving relative to a cost of executing the first restocking operation without combining with the second restocking operation.