Patent ID: 8255249

Claim:
A system for identifying a discrepancy between a quantity of equipment ordered for a project and a quantity of equipment used for the project, comprising: a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions of a procurement module that when executed on a processor identifies equipment estimated to be needed for the project, places an order for the identified equipment, and creates a list of the equipment ordered for the project; a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions of an engineering planning module that when executed on a processor creates a detailed project design for the project and creates a list of equipment deployed for the project, wherein the procurement module and the engineering planning module are independently executed; and a non-transitory computer readable medium comprising instructions of a comparison module that when executed on a processor integrates information from the procurement module with information from the engineering planning module, compares the list of the equipment ordered which was created by the procurement module with the list of the equipment deployed which was created by the engineering planning module, and creates a report that identifies unused equipment based on the comparison; wherein, when the report indicates that a piece of equipment is on the list of the equipment ordered which was created by the procurement module and is not on the list of equipment deployed which was created by the engineering planning module, the piece of equipment is considered unused equipment; and wherein, when the report indicates that unused equipment exists, the unused equipment is released for another use.