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1. A method comprising storing historical information about demand behavior associated with different sizes of styles of items of commerce, and generating a size assortment recommendation based on the stored historical information and on objectives with respect to purchase or allocation decisions about assortments of the different sizes.
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Historical information is stored about demand behavior associated with different sizes of styles of items of commerce. A size assortment recommendation is generated based on the stored historical information and on objectives with respect to purchase or allocation decisions about assortments of the different sizes.
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1. A method comprising
storing historical information about demand behavior associated with different sizes of styles of items of commerce, and generating a size assortment recommendation based on the stored historical information and on objectives with respect to purchase or allocation decisions about assortments of the different sizes.
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13. A method comprising
displaying to a user recommended size profiles for allocating a style of an item of commerce to retail outlets based on a predefined objective function, and enabling the user to specify alterations in an analysis that formed a basis of the recommended size profiles, and displaying to the user the impact of the alterations in terms of sales dollars, gross profit, size break week, or stockout week.
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