Patent ID: 7664674

Claim:
A supply chain and inventory risk management system for supplying inventory manufactured by a manufacturing entity to a plurality of customers, said management system comprising: electronic customer agreements describing a plurality of customer agreement rights between the manufacturing entity and the customers wherein ownership of the customer agreement rights has been transferred to an owner entity separate from the manufacturing entity, said customer agreement rights requiring distribution of the inventory to the customers in agreed-upon amounts in exchange for agreed-upon payments; and an electronic owner computer system capable of receiving and storing the electronic customer agreements and of forecasting amounts and timing of the inventory needed to supply the customers using the agreed-upon amounts defined by the customer agreement rights and further capable of repeatedly receiving and storing title to the forecasted amounts of inventory from the manufacturer at the forecasted timing as the owner entity purchases and takes title to the forecasted amounts of inventory from the manufacturing entity at the forecasted timing; and said electronic owner system additionally capable of ordering distribution services for distributing the agreed-upon amounts of inventory to the customers in accordance with the customer agreement rights and also capable of receiving and recording the agreed-upon payments sent by the customers in exchange for the inventory wherein transfer of the customer agreement rights facilitates purchase of the agreed-upon amounts of inventory by the customers at the agreed-upon payments.