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1. A system for supply chain management comprising:
a server system comprising one or more processors and one or more memory devices operably coupled to the one or more processors, the one or more memory devices storing executable and operational code effective to execute a supply chain engine comprising—
a customer knowledge database storing for each customer of a plurality of customers, a purchase history of items purchased by the each customer and a meal plan history of meal plans executed by the each customer;a customer characterization module effective to identify, for each customer of the plurality of customers, a preferential fabric of the each customer, the preferential fabric including common attributes of the items of the purchase history of the each customer and ingredients of meal plans of the meal plan history of the each customer;a clustering module effective to analyze the preferential fabrics of the plurality of customers and meal plan histories of the plurality of customers and identify a plurality of clusters of customers, each cluster being identified as group of customers from the plurality of customers that have similar preferential fabrics;a sample module effective to (a) select, for at least one cluster of the plurality of clusters, a portion of the customers of the at least one cluster, (b) identify a sample product having similarity to the preferential fabrics of the customers of the at least one cluster meeting a threshold condition, (c) invoke shipping of a sample product to the portion of the customers of the at least one cluster, the sample product having attributes corresponding to the preferential fabrics of the customers of the at least one cluster and (d) evaluate a response of the portion of the customers of the at least one cluster to the sample product;a meal plan module effective to select the sample product for inclusion in a sample-using meal plan scheduled on a common date for the customers of the at least one cluster of the plurality of customer if the response of the portion of the customers of the at least one cluster meets a threshold condition;a supply chain module effective to invoke ordering and delivery of the sample product on the common date to the customers of the at least one cluster within a usable lifetime of the sample product, the sample product having a usable lifetime shorter than a time required to stock the sample product in a retail establishment for individual sale. |