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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 31, 2017
Filed:
Sep. 26, 2014
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Jeffrey B. Maurer, Port Orchard, WA (US);
Deepak Bhatia, Issaquah, WA (US);
Gordon Mitchell Goetz, Seattle, WA (US);
Onur Özkök, Issaquah, WA (US);
Tolga Han Seyhan, Seattle, WA (US);
Nicholas Deming Sherman, Seattle, WA (US);
Arjun Krishna Subramaniam, Seattle, WA (US);
Jingchen Wu, Seattle, WA (US);
Amazon Technologies, Inc., Seattle, WA (US);
Abstract
Techniques for determining a decision to acquire units of an item to be inventoried may be provided. For example, a demand for an item may be simulated to determine a consumption of a capacity for inventorying the item. A discrepancy between the consumption of the capacity and the capacity may be determined. An opportunity cost associated with the capacity may be updated based at least in part on determining that the discrepancy fails a convergence criterion. The opportunity cost may indicate a value associated with using the capacity. The consumption of the capacity may be simulated based at least in part on the updated opportunity cost. A resulting discrepancy may be determined. If the resulting discrepancy meets the convergence criterion, the decision to acquire the units of the item may be generated based at least in part on the updated opportunity cost.