Patent ID: 7424440

Claim:
A method for analyzing product sales strategies using archived sales data, said method comprising the steps of: importing a sales profile; defining an analysis period; formatting at least a part of the archived sales data into one or more database files; verifying the integrity of the one or more database files based on validating the archived sales data, including uploading an original selling price for an item of the archived sales data that contains a value of zero and uploading a net cost price for an item of the archived sales data that contains a value of zero; calculating an adjusted weekly sale value based on said sales profile, said analysis period, and at least one of the one or more database files; calculating an uplifted sale value based on a selected uplift percentage and a base sale parameter, wherein the base sale parameter corresponds to projected sales of the analysis period and is based on a relationship having the form: BaseSale ⁡ ( Analysis_Period ) = Sales_Imported ⁢ _Period Profile_Value ⁢ _Imported ⁢ _Period · Profile_Value ⁢ _Analysis ⁢ _Period , wherein a sales of an imported period corresponds to an actual sales of a specified period, a first profile value for the imported period corresponds to a first predicted sales for the specified period according to the sales profile, and a second profile value for the analysis period corresponds to a second predicted sales for the analysis period according to the sales profile; and calculating a profit based on said uplifted sale value and said adjusted weekly sale value.