Patent ID: 8600844

Claim:
A non-transient, computer-readable media having stored thereon instructions for customizing inventory in a dispensing cabinet with products within an electronic catalog hosted by a wholesaler system, the instructions performing steps comprising: providing for display on a client computing device a user interface in which a graphical representation of a dispensing cabinet for dispensing products is presented, the dispensing cabinet being a point-of-use dispenser including a housing securing a plurality of dispensing mechanisms and a delivery controller for controlling the delivery of the products, the graphical representation of the dispensing cabinet including a graphical representation of each of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms; providing a data repository having stored therein information regarding the products including an identifier, and at least one characteristic of the product, and information regarding the characteristics of each dispensing mechanism; causing a user interface element to be presented within the user interface, the user interface element providing an access point to the product information stored in the data repository, and allowing selection of at least one product from a listing of products retrieved from the product information stored in the data repository to be added to the dispensing cabinet; using at least one characteristic of the at least one product to be added to the dispensing cabinet, at least one characteristic of each product previously added to the dispensing cabinet, and at least one predetermined rule to automatically associate the at least one product to be added to the dispensing cabinet to a corresponding one or more of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms and to re-associate each product previously added to the dispensing cabinet to a corresponding one or more of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms; and causing a change in the graphical representation of the dispensing cabinet such that the at least one product to be added to the dispensing cabinet and each product previously added to the dispensing cabinet is visually identified as being associated with the corresponding one or more of the plurality of dispensing mechanisms.