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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 16, 2022
Filed:
Jun. 11, 2021
Coupang Corp., Seoul, KR;
Hyeong Bae Yang, Gyeonggi-do, KR;
Dong Hyun Jin, Seoul, KR;
Hyo Beom Park, Seoul, KR;
Kyu Hoon Lim, Seoul, KR;
Je Kim, Bellevue, WA (US);
Smita Mohan, Seoul, KR;
Hernan Awad Amar, Bellevue, WA (US);
Coupang Corp., Seoul, KR;
Abstract
The present disclosure provides a computerized method for item distribution, including retrieving, from a data structure, an inventory of a SKU at each of a plurality of destinations; determining a buffer of each of the destinations; determining an average buffer across the destinations; identifying at least one high utilization destination and at least one low utilization destination based on differences from the average buffer; and redistributing a network inventory by, iteratively and for each of the high utilization destinations: finding, in the data structure, a low utilization destination having a common attribute with the high utilization destination; and sending, to a user device for display, an instruction to transfer a redistribution quantity of the SKU from the low utilization destination to the high utilization destination.