Patent Document ID: 20120166313
Application ID: 13414415
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method for determining an order of a customer, the method comprising: (a) receiving, by a server, identification of a number of procedures of a customer; (b) establishing, by the server, a usage factor and a waste factor for the procedure; (c) identifying, via an inventory control module of the server, one or more items for the procedure; (d) receiving, by the inventory control module of the server, a current inventory level of the customer for each of the one or more items; (e) determining, automatically by an automatic order calculator of the server, a customer order identifying an estimated amount of the one or more items to order for a predetermined time period based on the number of procedures, the current inventory level, the usage factor and the waste factor; (f) presenting, by the automatic order calculator responsive to the determination, an automatic order placement screen with an order form automatically populated based on the determination; and (g) placing, by the automatic order calculator, the customer order responsive to receiving a submission of the order form via the automatic order placement screen.