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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 23, 2013
Filed:
Sep. 04, 2009
Gintaras Vincent Puskorius, Novi, MI (US);
Bryan Roger Goodman, Dearborn, MI (US);
Robbie J. Aniol, Troy, MI (US);
William Richard Fravel, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Yu-ning Liu, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Melinda Kaye Hunsaker, Canton, MI (US);
Shigeru Sadakane, Northville, MI (US);
Gintaras Vincent Puskorius, Novi, MI (US);
Bryan Roger Goodman, Dearborn, MI (US);
Robbie J. Aniol, Troy, MI (US);
William Richard Fravel, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Yu-Ning Liu, Ann Arbor, MI (US);
Melinda Kaye Hunsaker, Canton, MI (US);
Shigeru Sadakane, Northville, MI (US);
Ford Motor Company, Dearborn, MI (US);
Abstract
A data store includes, for a dealer of interest, a target inventory mix rate for an item having a feature. A computing device is configured to perform an optimization to obtain a recommended feature allocation of the item including the feature by minimizing a difference between a projected inventory mix rate for the feature and the target inventory mix rate for the feature.