Patent ID: 8650101

Claim:
A method for managing inventory within the infrastructure of a technology service provider, the method comprising: providing a database comprising a prioritized listing of bills of material (BOMs), wherein each BOM includes a plurality of line items, and wherein each line item represents a quantity of a part requested for at least one project within the infrastructure; determining, by a processor, an estimated issue date (EID) for asset quantities of the infrastructure that are assigned to each line item of each BOM, wherein each EID represents the soonest that the assigned infrastructure asset quantities can fulfill the quantity of parts of the line item, wherein the prioritized listing of BOMs comprises first and second BOMs, wherein the first and second BOMs comprise first line items representing a first common part, wherein an infrastructure asset quantity assigned to the first line item of the first BOM has a sooner EID than does an infrastructure asset quantity assigned to the first line item of the second BOM; positioning the second BOM in a new position above the first BOM in the prioritized listing of BOMs; reassigning, in response to the positioning, infrastructure asset quantities of the common part that were previously assigned to line items of BOMs below the new position to the first line items of the second BOM, wherein after the reassigning, an infrastructure asset quantity allocated to the first line item of the second BOM has a sooner EID than does an infrastructure asset quantity allocated to the first line item of the first BOM.