Patent ID: 7039595

Claim:
A computerized method for determining a throughput value associated with one or more item orders, the method comprising: (a) generating a demand array of customer order line items; (b) generating a supply array of manufacturing inventory work orders; (c) selecting a customer order line item in the demand array; (d) matching a manufacturing inventory work order in the supply array with the selected customer order line item; (e) determining a selling price based on the selected customer order line item; (f) determining a materials cost and an outside services cost from the matched inventory work order; (g) determining a throughput value of the selected customer order line item by subtracting the determined materials cost and the determined outside services cost, but not subtracting any fixed costs, from the determined selling price, wherein the throughput value is an amount that the customer order line item contributes to the generation of profit through sales; and (h) associating the determined throughput value with the selected customer order line item.