Patent Document ID: 8630909
Application ID: 11616700
Patent Status: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for disambiguating historical point-of-sale data to enhance forecasting accuracy, the method comprising: using one or more computers to perform the steps of: receiving point-of-sale quantities for a plurality of individual items; receiving a point-of-sale quantity for a miscellaneous group item including undifferentiated sales of one or more of the individual items; calculating an item index for at least one individual item, the item index comprising a fraction of miscellaneous group item sales attributable to the at least one individual item; computing a revised point-of-sale quantity for the at least one individual item using the item index and the point-of-sale quantities for the miscellaneous group item and the at least one individual item; and using the revised point-of-sale quantity for the at least one individual item to forecast future demand for the at least one individual item.