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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2009
Filed:
Dec. 12, 2005
Gang Yu, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Russell Allgor, Seattle, WA (US);
Gang Yu, Mercer Island, WA (US);
Russell Allgor, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Reno, NV (US);
Abstract
A method and system for determining analyzing an inventory purchasing opportunity with respect to inventory health. A method may include receiving an offer to purchase units of an inventory item via a purchasing channel for a purchase price per unit; determining a rate of sales demand of the item; and determining a breakeven holding time of existing units of the item, where a cost of holding a unit until the breakeven holding time equals, within an equality threshold, a difference between a sales channel value and the offer purchase price. The method may additionally include determining a healthy inventory level of the item that exceeds a target inventory level by a function of the sales demand rate and the breakeven holding time, and, if a current inventory level of the item exceeds the healthy level, declining to purchase units of said inventory item for the purchase price.