System and method for tracking disposition of items
First Claim
1. A system for remotely tracking the disposition of inventoried items, said system comprising:
- an inventory management database accessible only to authorized users, said database comprising data related to inventoried items, each inventoried item having an assigned manual audit code, an automated audit code, and an audited item status associated with each inventoried item;
an item status viewer for viewing the audited status of each inventoried item; and
an inventory manager for managing at least one of the audited status and disposition of each said audited item.
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Abstract
A method and system of tracking and the disposition of inventoried items is disclosed. The method and system include assigning an audit code to an incoming inventoried item, wherein the audit code comprises a manual audit code and an automated audit code; auditing the incoming inventoried item to assess the incoming inventory item as suitable for one or more selected from the group consisting of destruction, demanufacturing, resale, recondition, storage, and redeployment; sending the incoming inventoried item to one of a redeployment, a demanufacturing, a reconditioning, a resale, a storage, and a destruction in accordance with the auditing; manually updating the manual audit code in accordance with the auditing and the sending; providing, after the sending and the manually updating, redeployment or resale of at least a portion of the incoming inventoried item audited as suitable for at least one of demanufacturing, resale, recondition, and redeployment; and, finally updating the manual audit code based upon the providing. Also disclosed is a system and method for securely tracking and reporting the disposition of inventoried items from a remote location.
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3 Claims
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1. A system for remotely tracking the disposition of inventoried items, said system comprising:
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an inventory management database accessible only to authorized users, said database comprising data related to inventoried items, each inventoried item having an assigned manual audit code, an automated audit code, and an audited item status associated with each inventoried item;
an item status viewer for viewing the audited status of each inventoried item; and
an inventory manager for managing at least one of the audited status and disposition of each said audited item.
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2. A method for remotely tracking the disposition of inventoried items, said method comprising:
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maintaining an inventory management database accessible only to authorized users, said database comprising data related to inventoried items, each inventoried item having an assigned manual audit code, an automated audit code, and an audited status associated with each inventoried item;
maintaining an item status viewer for viewing the status of each inventoried item; and
maintaining an inventory manager for managing at least one of the audited status and disposition of each said audited item.
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3. A system for tracking the disposition of inventoried items, said system comprising:
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an audit code assignor suitable for assigning a manual audit code and an automated audit code of the inventoried item;
an auditor that audits the incoming inventoried item to assess the incoming inventoried item as suitable for one or more of destruction, demanufacturing, resale, reconditioning, storage, and redeployment;
at least one of a redeployer, a demanufacturor, a reseller, a storer and a destructor associated with said auditor; and
at least one updator suitable for manually updating the manual audit code at each of the audit code assignor, the auditor, and the at least one redeployer, demanufacturor, reconditioner, reseller, storer, and destructor.
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