Authors:
Guek Wu Neo, Danny Leow, Cheng Hwee Chua
Abstract:
An index is proposed that will give customers an indicator of the item ranked by size that will allow a customer to look into buying timing priority.
Background:
Some items may be very popular items at times. However if you do not need it urgently, you may not care about whether or not it is a popular item.
Merchants may not disclose how much stock is left of a popular item until you want to buy it, then you find out that the needed size is sold out and only available in other sizes.
Hence as a customer, you may go into the mode of silent purchase via online purchase or buy in person some quantity just in case you are unable to get a particular size. The system will set an indictor to mark other sizes as a potential out of stock, setting it to a high procure index to indicate that you must buy sooner or else the item will be out of stock and unavailable.
Description:
Say the Retailer has 5 liter, 1 liter apple juice and 500ml apple juice. For a start all have the same procure index 0.
Until you want to buy 500ml but there is no stock left , 1 liter apple juice should be setting to a procure index 10, 5 liter to procure index 5.
With this index, customer could have a indicator or what they need to buy first as priority.
The cycle goes on if all indexes are high... then at any time, user will need to buy that item of any size if they can.
Claims:
A method that could enable User to see at a glance the item and its size such that User can quickly procure as many of the available sizes as desired so as not to loose out on the ability to buy the item at all.
In this way, User can use this index to prioritize to buy the high index so that User can get the item that User wants as compared to item that there are many at the store now which is reflected as a lower index. These items they still have time to buy before it runs out.
User could select the subject(s) - what are the items that are important to the outcome of the shopping trip though may not entirely fit their initial want to buy size. That is defined as the high index items to be buy first as compare to other items when User scrolled through their shopping list.
Focus of our disclosure is on the distinct index that highlight the items that User has stated in their shopping list and what they need to buy first because of User’s preferred size rank and store’s inventory status.
Using this index, it helps drive the User to make quicker decisions to confirm to buy items that is nearest to their preferred sized while others of low index which indicates there are plenty in store.
With our disclosure, User will be informed that Orange juice is an item that User wants to get first and will need to decide what size to buy.
And by looking at the index in our disclosure, User can quickly confirm the size to buy.
Using this method, User will have a better chance of buying what is of high importance to them to meet their shopping basket list.
TGCS Reference 00441
