US Patent 11416815 Systems and computerized methods for balancing inventory

The present disclosure provides a computerized method for item distribution, including retrieving, from a data structure, an inventory of a SKU at each of a plurality of destinations; determining a buffer of each of the destinations; determining an average buffer across the destinations; identifying at least one high utilization destination and at least one low utilization destination based on differences from the average buffer; and redistributing a network inventory by, iteratively and for each of the high utilization destinations: finding, in the data structure, a low utilization destination having a common attribute with the high utilization destination; and sending, to a user device for display, an instruction to transfer a redistribution quantity of the SKU from the low utilization destination to the high utilization destination.