Claims
- 1. A method for forecasting materials used in reissuing credit cards to cardholders, the method comprising:
identifying cardholder accounts potentially eligible for reissue for a certain time period; analyzing account information to determine which ones of the potentially eligible cardholder accounts qualify for reissue; and determining a projected amount of materials needed in reissuing credit cards based on the number of qualified cardholder accounts.
- 2. The method of claim 1 further comprising
estimating current inventory levels of materials based on the projected amount of materials.
- 3. The method of claim 1 wherein the account information includes client selected criteria.
- 4. The method of claim 1 further comprising
comparing the projected amount with a current amount of materials available in order to determine whether a material shortfall or surplus exists.
- 5. The method of claim 1 wherein the material comprises plastic stock for producing the reissued credit cards.
- 6. The method of claim 5 further comprising
determining a projected amount of inserts for use with the credit cards.
- 7. The method of claim 5 further comprising
determining a projected amount of card carriers for carrying the credit cards.
- 8. A method for monitoring inventory levels of materials when reissuing credit cards, the method comprising:
identifying cardholder accounts eligible for reissue for a certain time period; qualifying one or more of the eligible cardholder accounts for reissue; determining a projected amount of materials used when reissuing credit cards based on the number of qualified cardholder accounts; and comparing the projected amount with a current amount of materials available in order to determine whether a material shortfall or surplus exists.
- 9. The method of claim 8 wherein the materials are selected from a group consisting of plastics, card carriers, inserts, card activation labels and mailers.
- 10. The method of claim 8 wherein the act of qualifying one or more eligible cardholder accounts comprises
analyzing account information for the eligible cardholders to determine which cardholders qualify for reissue.
- 11. The method of claim 10 wherein the account information includes client selected criteria.
- 12. A system for forecasting an amount of materials used when reissuing credit cards for cardholders, the system comprising:
memory; processor for executing program code in said memory; program code for identifying cardholder accounts eligible for reissue for a certain time period; program code for analyzing account information for the eligible cardholders to determine which ones of the eligible cardholder accounts qualify for reissue; and program code for determining a projected amount of materials needed for producing the credit cards based on the number of qualified cardholders.
- 13. The system of claim 12 wherein the account information includes client selected criteria.
- 14. The system of claim 12 further comprising
program code for comparing the projected amount with a current amount of materials available in order to determine whether a material shortfall or surplus exists.
- 15. The system of claim 12 wherein the material comprises plastic stock for producing the reissued credit cards.
- 16. The system of claim 15 further comprising
program code for determining a projected amount of inserts.
- 17. The system of claim 12 wherein the material comprises mailers.
- 18. The system of claim 12 wherein the material comprises card activation labels.
CROSS-REFERENCES TO RELATED APPLICATIONS
[0001] This application is a continuation-in-part of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/108,806, entitled “Method and System for Processing Card Reissue Transactions”, filed Mar. 26, 2002, (Attorney Docket No. 020375-005000), and is related to U.S. application Ser. No. 10/109,459, entitled “System for Card Processing, Embossing and Fulfillment”, filed Mar. 26, 2002, (Attorney Docket No. 020375-003700), and U.S. application Ser. No. 10/108,217, entitled “System for Ranking Card Reissue Transactions”, filed Mar. 26, 2002, (Attorney Docket No. 020375-005100); all of the complete disclosures of which are herein incorporated by reference.
Continuation in Parts (3)
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