| 摘要 |
A method of evaluating products during binning at a retail sales facility 12 comprises receiving data from a worker scanning, at the time of binning, a product 90 using a handheld electrical device 20 which may be a mobile phone; obtaining a demand for the product from time identical products were delivered, the demand corresponding to one or both of the time of delivery of the at least one product and the time of receiving the data step; estimating and outputting an indication as to whether the demand for the product supports moving the product onto the sales floor 82 or binning the product in a stockroom storage bin. An inventory management database 42 may include data related to demand for the product, such as units sold on a given day or per hour, for example. The database may keep a running demand for the product since delivery of the product. An independent claim is included to apparatus suitable for conducting the method. |
