Patent ID: 9659275
Date: 2017-05-23
CPC Classifications: G06K,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method of evaluating whether products are to be binned into stock room bins at a retail sales facility, the method comprising: receiving data from a worker of the retail sales facility scanning at least one product using a hand-held electronic device including a processor, the scanning by the worker occurring in at least one of a stock room and a product unloading area of the retail sales facility to facilitate a determination of whether the at least one product is to be binned into a stock room storage bin or brought onto the sales floor; obtaining a demand for the at least one product from a time products identical to the at least one product were delivered, the demand corresponding to one or both of (1) a time of delivery of the at least one product to the retail sales facility and (2) a time of the receiving the data step; estimating whether the demand for the at least one product supports moving the at least one product on to a sales floor of the retail sales facility or binning the at least one product in a stock room storage bin; outputting, when the demand supports moving the at least one product from the at least one of a stock room and a product unloading area where the at least one product was scanned by the worker to the sales floor, an indication to the worker that there is available sales floor space for the at least one product; and outputting, when the demand supports binning the at least one product into the stock room storage bin, an indication to the worker that the at least one product is to be binned in the stock room storage bin.