The principal benefit of supermarket automation is inventory control. The computer has a comprehensive record of each item sold as well as a record of the quantity still in stock. Once this information is in the computer’s memory, it is a simple matter to have the computer printout daily a list of those items that have gone below a predetermined number and, so, need to be reordered. In effect, the responsibility of having to decide whether to reorder each of perhaps 8,000 products is taken from the store manager, who cannot accurately analyze every one of the 8,000 situations simultaneously, and is given to a system ideally suited for such routine decision-making
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