It is time to build a clone of this project.<p>"As a business you can monitor all of your input costs in real time. You can monitor by region, industry, specific supplier. The search engine will also have advanced statistical features to give you directional probabilities of pricing in the short term. Instead of a rigid, just-in-time inventory approach to your inputs, your program will alert you when the likelihood of waiting one more week to buy, or buying one week early, will give you a better price."<p>by Kevin Price, original here, <a href="http://www.zerohedge.com/article/why-mit-not-willing-unleash-real-time-dynamic-purchasing-inventory-control-systems-or-true-r" rel="nofollow">http://www.zerohedge.com/article/why-mit-not-willing-unleash...</a>