Patent Document ID: 20120123814
Application ID: 12946327
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A product assortment planning system operable to determine scaled performance metric values for an assortment of products, the system comprising: a data store storing performance metric values for an assortment of products including a target assortment of products and a source assortment of products; a retrieval unit retrieving the performance metric values for each product in the assortment of products; an equivalization unit equivalizing the performance metric values for the source assortment of products; and a scaling unit executed by a computer system, the scaling unit determining incrementality assumptions, wherein the incrementality assumptions are an estimation of an amount of cannibalization that occurs for the target assortment of products as a result of combining the source assortment of products with the target assortment of products, and calculating scaled performance metric values for each product in the assortment of products based on the equivalized performance metric values and the incrementality assumptions.