Patent ID: 8301518

Claim:
A computer-readable medium that is non-transitory, the computer readable medium comprising a series of instructions for execution by at least one computer processor, the series of instructions comprising: instructions for calculating a risk value associated with a number of resources at each of a plurality of locations, each of the resources comprising a part consumed in an industry; instructions for receiving notice of a removal of a first resource at a first one of the plurality of locations; instructions for calculating a risk value based on the remaining inventory of first resources at the first one of the plurality of locations, comprising: instructions for obtaining a time between removal mean value, the time between removal mean value equaling a mean of a plurality of first time values, each first time value equaling the time elapsed between one removal of a first resource from the inventory at the first one of the plurality of locations and a next removal of another first resource from the inventory at the first one of the plurality of locations subsequent to the one removal, and instructions for obtaining a transit time mean value, the transit time mean value equaling a mean of a plurality of second time values, each second time value equaling the time elapsed during the transfer of a first resource from a location other than the first one of the plurality of locations to the inventory at the first one of the plurality of locations; instructions for determining if the risk value is less than a predetermined threshold; instructions for generating a list of a plurality of locations that have an inventory of first resources; and instructions for generating a request to transfer a second resource from the inventory of first resources at a second one of the plurality of locations based on a second risk value based on the inventory of first resources at the second one of the plurality of locations.