Smart cache component for demand chain management

摘要

Demand Chain Management (DCM) refers to a suite of analytical applications for retail business, that provides retailers with the tools they need for product demand forecasting, planning and replenishment. The reliable development and user-friendly interface of DCM applications ensures improved customer satisfaction, increased sales, improved inventory turns and significant return on investment. The present subject matter provides a self-contained reusable smart cache component for DCM development and interface. The smart cache component gives a DCM developer the ability to automatically have a configurable amount of information temporarily stored in readily available memory on an application server. The information can be retrieved in a high speed fashion without the need for additional calls to the original location of the information.

主权项

1. A machine-implemented method, comprising:
providing, with a processor, a cache component adapted to store a configurable number of pages of data from a Demand Chain Management (DCM) database, wherein each page of data is configured to be displayed on a display separate from one another; initializing, with the processor, the cache component to store a predetermined number of pages of data from the DCM database, wherein the predetermined number of pages is less than a total amount of page storage capacity of the cache component; creating, with the processor, an instance of at least one of a java collection model, a hibernate model and a Structured Query Language (SQL) model, the model configured to interface with a cache component; receiving, with the processor, a query from a user referring to data requested by the user; and obtaining, with the processor, the data from the cache component using the model, the cache component configured to check if the requested data is included in the predetermined number of pages of data stored in the cache component and return the data if stored in the cache component, and further configured to obtain additional data from a data source if the data is not stored in the cache component.