Customer-specific merchandising program
CA 2449863 A1 · Owner: Mars, Incorporated · Inventors: Chow, Terry
Overview
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The invention is directed to facilitating the planning and ordering of a merchandising unit and associated products. A merchandising unit planning screen is presented that displays a representation of a merchandising unit having holders for holding and displaying the products. A product menu is provided for each holder to allow selection of a product from a set of products for each respective holder. Available choises in the product menu of at least one holder are constraining to a subset of the set of products based on predetermined criteria. For each holder for which a product has been selected, a product quantity is determined based on a capacity of the respective holder. An …
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- Filed May 31, 2002. No grant is recorded for it in Canada; had it been granted, its 20-year term would have ended May 31, 2022.
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