Patent ID: 8725599

Claim:
A vendor managed inventory system that manages inventory across stores of a retailer, the system comprising: a retailer network interface configured to communicate with the retailer over a network; and a vendor management inventory server communicatively coupled with the retailer via the network interface and configured to: receive store-level trait information comprising at least one store identifier, each of the at least one store identifier corresponding to a store and a set of fixture identifiers associated with each of the at least one store identifier, wherein each fixture identifier within the set of fixture identifiers corresponds to a fixture within the store; receive retailer planogram information comprising a product identifier corresponding to a product, at least one fixture identifier corresponding to a respective fixture associated with the product, and a product capacity associated with each of the at least one fixture identifier, corresponding to the capacity of product for the respective fixture; generate store-level mapped data by matching at least one fixture identifier from the retailer planogram information with a corresponding at least one fixture identifier from the set of fixture identifiers; determine a replenishment level for a product based on the store-level mapped data; and trigger a replenishment order when a safety stock level of the product falls below the replenishment level.