Beverage product acquisition and inventory management system

A method of organizing a plurality of distributor inventory systems over a network to facilitate access to the plurality of distributor computer inventory systems by customers comprising:

• storing, in a database, a list of beverage products, the beverage products associated with a plurality of distributors;
• receiving, from a customer device over the centralized network, a request for one or more beverage products;
• determining, by one or more processors, one or more distributors associated with the one or more beverage products based on the stored association of beverage products to distributors, wherein each of the one or more beverage products is associated with a single distributor;
• organizing, by the one or more processors, the request into a plurality of requests when more than one of the requested one or more beverage products is associated with more than one distributor, wherein each of the plurality of requests is specific to the respective distributor and comprises at least one beverage product associated with the respective distributor;
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• transmitting, over the centralized network, each of the plurality of requests to a distributor device associated with the respective distributor.

A centralized beverage product inventory management and acquisition system, comprising:

• a database storing product information for a plurality of beverage products, wherein the product information comprises information identifying a distributor associated with the plurality of beverage products;
• a processing device;
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• a computer readable medium containing programming instructions that, when executed, cause the processing device to:
• receive, from a first user device connected to the processing device over a network, a single order for a plurality of beverage products;
• retrieve, from the database, product information for the plurality of beverage products in the order;
• determine, based on the retrieved product information, a distributor associated with the plurality of beverage products in the order, wherein at least two different distributors are associated with the plurality of beverage products in the order and each beverage product of the plurality of beverage products is associated with a single distributor;
• separate the single order into at least two sub orders associated with the at least two distributors, wherein the at least two sub orders have order specifications compatible with the respective distributor's internal order system;
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• transmit, over the network to at least two distributor devices associated with the at least two distributors, the at least two sub orders.