Patent ID: 7747478

Claim:
A method for exhausting excess inventory in a manufacturing environment comprising: identifying excess inventory; providing raw financial data into a computer selected from the group consisting of raw revenue data, raw component cost data, and combinations thereof; providing a variable scaling factor into said computer selected from the group consisting of a global scaling factor, a local scaling factor, and combinations thereof wherein said global scaling factor comprises an indicator chosen by said user for indicating spending of additional money for consuming said excess inventory; providing a business objective containing logic into said computer; validating said raw financial data; verifying that said business objective is a valid preconfigured business objective; manipulating said logic of said verified business objective within said computer using said variable scaling factor to provide modified logic of said business objective; generating modified financial data by said computer applying said validated raw financial data and said variable scaling factor within said logic of said business objective; utilizing said modified financial data in combination with said modified logic, determining multiple end-product portfolios for end products that consume said excess inventory; displaying said multiple end-product portfolios on a display screen of said computer to a user for selection of at least one of said multiple end-product portfolios by said user; selecting said at least one of said multiple end-product portfolios; and building an end product associated with said selected portfolio that consumes said excess inventory.