Mobile Vendor Scheduling Platform for Demand-Based Stock Planning

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Solution Overview

Problem

Mobile vendors face challenges in effectively advertising their availability, managing stock, and predicting customer demand, leading to wastage of goods, offering lower quality products, decreased revenue, and inefficient resource use due to the lack of a systematic platform for alerting customers to their presence and managing stock.

Innovation Solution

A computer-implemented system and method that allows mobile vendors to populate a multi-access calendar with their proposed presence, receive and adjust based on customer interest, and notify individuals of changes, using processors to manage stock and location adjustments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Reliability

If mobile vendors carry surplus stock to meet customer demand, then customer demand can be met, but time and resources are wasted in transporting excess stock

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to meet customer demandVSAvoidtime spent transporting excess stock

Core Design Contradiction:

ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by collecting customer interest data in advance through the platform before the vendor arrives at the location. This allows vendors to predict demand and carry only the necessary stock, eliminating the need to transport excess stock while ensuring sufficient stock is available to meet actual customer demand.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #10Preliminary action

2Loss of information

If mobile vendors use traditional advertising methods, then customers can be reached, but the process is time consuming and inefficient

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveability to reach customersVSAvoidtime required for internet searches and social media following

Core Design Contradiction:

Loss of informationVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system introduces an intermediary platform that acts as a mediator between mobile vendors and customers. The platform consolidates vendor information, availability, and location data in one accessible location, eliminating the need for customers to conduct time-consuming internet searches and follow vendors on social media.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Adaptability or versatility

If mobile vendors operate without a systematic platform, then operational flexibility is maintained, but stock management efficiency decreases leading to wastage

Engineering Contradiction:

Improveoperational flexibilityVSAvoidwastage of goods

Core Design Contradiction:

Adaptability or versatilityVSLoss of substance

Solution Approach 1:

The system implements feedback mechanisms by collecting and analyzing customer interest data, then providing vendors with actionable insights about predicted demand at specific locations and times. This feedback loop enables vendors to optimize their stock levels based on actual customer interest, reducing wastage while maintaining operational flexibility to adapt to different locations and customer preferences.

Inventive Principle:

Principle #23Feedback

Data Source

PatentUS20260050947A1System and method for facilitating mobile vendors to advertise their goods and/or services

Publication Date: 2026.02.19 NOLAN TAMMY

AI summary

A computer-implemented system and method that enables mobile vendors of goods and/or services to advertise the future location regarding availability of their goods and/or services to consumers, in an effort to generate and/or increase sales of their products and/or services. The present invention finds particular application with respect to mobile vendors such as owners of food vans, pop-up food stores and market stall holders and enables such owners to alert customers regarding their proposed presence at specific geographic locations at particular dates and times.