US Patent 11853938 System and method of reinforced machine-learning retail allocation

A system and method for allocation planning comprise a server comprising a processor and memory and configured to calculate a reward for a historical allocation of a product to one or more stores associated with a retailer. Embodiments include simulating what-if scenarios for the historical allocation to identify an allocation having a greater reward than the historical allocation and allocating a quantity of a product for a current allocation to the one or more stores based, at least in part, on a distance calculation of one or more independent variables for the historical allocation and the current allocation and the identified allocation having the greater reward then the historical allocation.