System and associated methods for apportionment of inventory between warehouse nodes to achieve requested service levels

A computer-implemented method for apportioning inventory units to a plurality of warehouse nodes to meet desired service levels, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a server and from a computing device, a placement request for a set of inventory units from a merchant, the placement request including a plurality of service level parameters including a delivery region and a shipping speed;
• receiving, from one or more warehouse nodes, warehouse node information, wherein the one or more warehouse nodes provide the warehouse node information in a non-standardized format;
• converting, by the server, the non-standardized warehouse node information into a plurality of node data sets of a standardized format;
• storing, at a database, the plurality of node data sets of the standardized format;
• accessing, by the server, the database storing the plurality of node data sets, each node data set being associated with a warehouse node, wherein each node data set includes availability information and carrier information for the warehouse node;
• selecting, by the server and based on the node data sets and the service level parameters, a set of warehouse nodes for storing the inventory units, wherein the selecting includes:
• identifying, based on the availability information, one or more warehouse nodes having available space to store at least some of the inventory units, and
• identifying, based on the carrier information, one or more warehouse nodes associated with at least one carrier that ships from the warehouse node to the delivery region at the received shipping speed;
• apportioning, by the server, a number of inventory units to each selected warehouse node;
• providing, by the server and to at least one node device via a communication network, placement instructions including the selected warehouse nodes and the number of inventory units to ship to each selected warehouse node;
• determining, by the server, an inventory threshold for at least one warehouse node of the selected warehouse nodes;
• determining, by the server, whether an inventory level for the at least one warehouse node has fallen below the determined inventory threshold for that warehouse node;
• and
• automatically reapportioning, by the server, at least some inventory units between the selected warehouse nodes without instructions from the merchant and in response to determining that the inventory level for the at least one warehouse node of the selected warehouse nodes has fallen below the identified inventory threshold for that warehouse node,
• wherein other placement instructions are provided by the server and to the at least one node device via the communication network, the other placement instructions being different from the provided placement instructions.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions configured to cause one or more processors to perform a method for apportioning inventory units to a plurality of warehouse node, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a server and from a merchant computing device, a placement request for a set of inventory units from a merchant, the placement request including a plurality of service level parameters including a delivery region and a shipping speed;
• receiving, from one or more warehouse nodes, warehouse node information, wherein the one or more warehouse nodes provide the warehouse node information in a non-standardized format;
• converting, by the server, the non-standardized warehouse node information into a plurality of node data sets of a standardized format;
• storing, at a database, the plurality of node data sets of the standardized format;
• accessing, by the server, the database storing the plurality of node data sets, each node data set being associated with a warehouse node, wherein each node data set includes availability information and carrier information for the warehouse node;
• selecting, by the server and based on the node data sets and the service level parameters, a set of warehouse nodes for storing the inventory units, wherein the selecting includes:
• identifying, based on the availability information, one or more warehouse nodes having available space to store at least some of the inventory units, and
• identifying, based on the carrier information, one or more warehouse nodes associated with at least one carrier that ships from the warehouse node to the delivery region at the received shipping speed;
• apportioning, by the server, a number of inventory units to each selected warehouse node;
• providing, by the server and to one or more node devices via a communication network, placement instructions including the selected warehouse nodes and the number of inventory units to ship to each selected warehouse node;
• identifying, by the server, an inventory threshold for at least one warehouse node of the selected warehouse nodes;
• determining, by the server, whether an inventory level for the at least one warehouse node has fallen below the identified inventory threshold for that warehouse node;
• and
• in response to determining that the inventory level for the at least one warehouse node of the selected warehouse nodes has fallen below the identified inventory threshold for that warehouse node, automatically triggering reapportionment of at least some of the inventory units by the server,
• wherein reapportionment of the at least some of the inventory units includes providing other placement instructions from the server via the communication network to the one or more node devices for the at least some of the inventory units, and
• wherein the other placement instructions are different from the provided placement instructions.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium containing instructions configured to cause one or more processors to perform a method for apportioning inventory units to a plurality of warehouse node, the method comprising:

• receiving, at a server and from a computing device, a placement request for a set of inventory units from a merchant, the placement request including a plurality of service level parameters including a delivery region and a shipping speed;
• receiving, from one or more warehouse nodes, warehouse node information, wherein the one or more warehouse nodes provide the warehouse node information in a non-standardized format;
• converting, by the server, the non-standardized warehouse node information into a plurality of node data sets of a standardized format;
• storing, at a database, the plurality of node data sets of the standardized format;
• accessing, by the server, the database storing the plurality of node data sets, each node data set being associated with a warehouse node, wherein each node data set includes availability information and carrier information for the warehouse node;
• selecting, by the server and based on the node data sets and the service level parameters, a set of warehouse nodes for storing the inventory units, wherein the selecting includes:
• identifying, based on the availability information, one or more warehouse nodes having available space to store at least some of the inventory units, and
• identifying, based on the carrier information, one or more warehouse nodes associated with at least one carrier that ships from the warehouse node to the delivery region at the received shipping speed;
• apportioning, by the server, a number of inventory units to each selected warehouse node;
• providing, by the server and to at least one node device, placement instructions including the selected warehouse nodes and the number of inventory units to ship to each selected warehouse node via a communication network;
• determining, by the server, an inventory threshold for at least one warehouse node of the selected warehouse nodes;
• determining, by the server, whether an inventory level for the at least one warehouse node has fallen below the determined inventory threshold for that warehouse node;
• and
• automatically reapportioning, by the server, at least some inventory units between the selected warehouse nodes without instructions from the merchant and in response to determining that the inventory level for the at least one warehouse node has fallen below the determined inventory threshold for that warehouse node,
• wherein other placement instructions are provided by the server via the communication network and to the at least one node device, the other placement instructions being different from the provided placement instructions.