Patent ID: 8266020

Claim:
A method for generating replenishment orders for first and second products at a retail store, comprising: a vendor managed inventory system storing retail-level planogram information having fixture identifiers; the vendor managed inventory system receiving store-level capacity information at a fixture level regarding first and second fixtures where the fixtures are referenced by fixture identifiers; the vendor managed inventory system electronically receiving-store-level sales performance information regarding sales of the first and second products from the first fixture referenced by the fixture identifiers; the vendor manager inventory system generating store-level mapped data by matching fixture identifiers in the capacity information and sales performance with the planogram information; the vendor managed inventory system determining fixture-level relative replenishment levels for the first and second products as a function of the store-level mapped data; triggering a fixture-level replenishment order when a fixture-level perpetual quantity of the first and second products fall below a determined fixture-level safety stock for the first fixture relative to the to second fixture; and enabling a vendor to provide the replenishment levels of the first and second products to the store.