Patent ID: 8712579

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium embodying a program executable in at least one computing device, comprising: code that obtains a specification of a period of time; code that obtains data describing a plurality of past shipments, each of the plurality of past shipments corresponding to a product collection that has been shipped in a single respective package from a materials handling facility to a respective customer during the period of time that has been specified; code that determines, for each of the plurality of past shipments, a three-dimensional bounding box that encloses the corresponding product collection, at least some of the three-dimensional bounding boxes differing from one another; and code that generates a packaging suite from the three-dimensional bounding boxes determined for the plurality of past shipments, the packaging suite specifying a plurality of different sizes of packaging that are to be employed in the materials handling facility for future shipments originating from the materials handling facility.