Patent ID: 7085729

Claim:
A system for allowing allocation of products among sellers, comprising: at least one computer having at least one or more processing unit; a hierarchy of at least two seller models, each representing a seller for a product having an associated product forecast model, the forecast model representing: forecasted sales of the product through each seller according to a commitment level for the seller and forecasted sales through other sellers in the hierarchy; planned supply of the product; customer orders for the product through each seller; and allocated supply of the product to each seller, representing the sum of promises from suppliers plus any customer promises; at least one supplier model operable to indicate to the seller models, according to the forecasted sales, promised supply of the product; at least one customer model operable to indicate to the seller models customer orders for the product; and wherein the system is operable to indicate to each seller in the hierarchy the allocated supply of the product to the seller.