Retail product assortment generation and recommendation

Fecha de publicación: 03/03/2022
Fuente: WIPO "sustainability"
One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving information for each of a plurality of products; for each of the plurality of products: predicting a demand for the product; calculating a sustainability score, wherein the sustainability score is based upon a material composition of the product; and computing a similarity score, wherein the computing comprises comparing pairs of products within the plurality of products; generating a plurality of assortment choices from the plurality of products, wherein each of the plurality of assortment choices has a corresponding assortment demand value, assortment sustainability score, and assortment similarity score, wherein the generating comprises utilizing a multi-objective formulation based upon the predicted demand, the calculated sustainability score, and the computed similarity score; and providing the plurality of assortment choices to a user for selection.