Patent Document ID: 20100138274
Application ID: 12326145
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. A method to determine daily weight values for use in forecasting daily demand for a product during a forecast week, said method comprising the steps of: storing within a data warehouse historical demand data for said product; retrieving from said data warehouse historical daily demand data for said product for a period of at least one week immediately preceding said forecast week; for each day of said at least one immediately preceding week, calculating a daily weight value for said product by dividing the historical daily demand for a corresponding day of said at least one immediately preceding week by a total of said historical daily demands for all seven days of said at least one immediately preceding week; retrieving from said data warehouse historical daily demand data for said product for a period of at least one week one year prior to said forecast week; for each day of said at least one year prior week, calculating a daily weight value for said product by dividing the historical daily demand for a corresponding day of said at least one year prior week by a total of said historical daily demands for all seven days of said at least one year prior week; and blending said corresponding daily weight values for said at least one immediately preceding week and said at least one year prior week to determine a daily weight value for use in forecasting daily demand for a product.