Connected inventory systems to enable customer fulfillment

A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium containing instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, perform an operation for selecting a provider to fulfill a request for a product, the operation comprising:

• receiving at a connected inventory fulfillment service, from an inventory management tool, a request from a seller on behalf of a customer for a product;
• identifying, from a set of providers, a subset of providers, each provider in the subset associated with inventory data stored by the inventory management tool, wherein identifying the subject comprises filtering the set such that providers in the set that have not agreed to participate as providers in the connected inventory fulfillment service are not included in the subset;
• determining, for each provider in the subset of providers, a match score between the information in the request and the inventory data for the provider;
• selecting a provider from the subset of providers based on the match scores;
• and
• initiating a purchase of the product with the seller on behalf of the customer and the provider.

A system, comprising:

• one or more processors;
• and
• memory storing one or more applications, which, when executed on the one or more processors perform an operation for selecting a provider to fulfill a request for a product, the operation comprising:
• receiving at a connected inventory fulfillment service, from an inventory management tool on a remote server, a request from a seller on behalf of a customer for a product;
• identifying, from a set of providers, a subset of providers, each provider in the subset associated with inventory data stored by the inventory management tool, wherein identifying the subject comprises filtering the set such that providers in the set that have not agreed to participate as providers in the connected inventory fulfillment service are not included in the subset;
• determining, at the remote server for each provider in the subset of providers, a match score between the information in the request and the inventory data for the provider;
• selecting a provider from the subset of providers based on the match scores;
• and
• initiating a purchase of the product with the seller on behalf of the customer and the provider.