Patent Document ID: 20070225844
Application ID: 11308395
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for implementing a reusable new product planning model, comprising: gathering historical demand data for products in a product set and determining a launch period for each of the products, the historical demand data broken down by product and for a number of consecutive time periods; for each of the time periods, determining a transition percentage for each of the products by calculating a percentage of total demand corresponding to each of the products at each time period; grouping the transition percentages of the products by respective launch-based time periods and averaging the transition percentages for each of the launch-based time periods, resulting in an averaged transition range; calculating a fast transition range and a slow transition range for each of the launch-based time periods by comparing the transition percentages at each of the launch-based time periods to the averaged transition range for each of the launched-based time periods; and developing a production plan for a new product by applying one of the fast transition range, slow transition range, and averaged transition range to the new product at a time period before product launch and allocating a remaining demand percentage to existing products in the product set using the one of the fast, slow, and averaged transition ranges applied to the new product and for a corresponding launch-based time period for the existing products, the new product and the products in the product set sharing similar characteristics.