Patent Document ID: 20110071885
Application ID: 12566543
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A computer-implemented method for transforming transactional data into a forecast of demand for controlling a commerce system, comprising: moving goods between members of a commerce system; recording transactional data related to movement of goods between the members of the commerce system, the transactional data including price, product, time, promotion, and customer; estimating daily disaggregating parameters (DDP) by minimizing an error function of day of week and transactional data grouped according to promotion, price range, or customer; estimating model parameters based on the DDP and transactional data using a demand model to generate a weekly forecast of demand for the goods; disaggregating the weekly forecast of demand into daily components using the DDP; and providing the daily components of the weekly forecast of demand for the goods to a member of the commerce system to control the movement of goods in the commerce system.