Systems and Methods for Supporting Regulatory Requirements for the Distribution of Controlled and Non-Controlled Items

A computer-implemented method for license verification related to orders of one or more regulated substances, the method comprising steps of:

• receiving, by a license verification (LV) module, an order for a regulated substance from a computing device of a customer, the order comprising order data comprising customer input data, the LV module being a component of a server computing device that applies a set of rules for license verification;
• retrieving, by the LV module, at least a portion of the stored data contained in one or more memory storage areas;
• calling, over a wired or wireless computer network and by the LV module, a compliance authority computing device for license information associated with a license of the customer and receive, by the LV module and from the compliance authority computing device, the license information;
• based on the set of rules and identifying no discrepancies within the license information, automatically validating, by the LV module, the license;
• in response to the automatically validating of the license, communicating by the LV module, via an application programming interface (API), to a Suspicious Order Monitoring (SOM) module to request further processing of the order, the SOM module being another component that detects one or more suspicious orders placed for one or more controlled substances;
• in response to the communicating, automatically applying, by the SOM module, a plurality of checks to the order and setting corresponding suspicious order indicators, each suspicious order indicator of the suspicious order indicators being indicative whether the order is suspicious for a respective check of the plurality of checks, the plurality of checks includes comparing the order with:
• a first set of historical orders from the customer or a second set of historical orders from a plurality of customers;
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• based at least in part on the comparing, marking, by the SOM module, the order as suspicious.

A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-readable program code embodied therein comprising a license verification module and a suspicious ordering module, the computer-readable program code being executable by at least one computer processor to cause the at least one computer processor to:

• receive, by the one or more processors executing a license verification (LV) module, an order for a regulated substance, the order comprising order data comprising customer input data, the LV module being a component of a computing device that applies a set of rules for license verification;
• retrieve, by the one or more processors executing the LV module, at least a portion of the stored data contained in one or more memory storage areas;
• call, over a wired or wireless computer network and by the one or more processors executing the LV module, a compliance authority computing device for license information associated with a license of the customer and receive, by the one or more processors executing the LV module and from the compliance authority computing device, the license information;
• based on the set of rules and identifying no discrepancies within the license information, automatically validate, by the one or more processors executing the LV module, the license;
• request, by a Suspicious Order Monitoring (SOM) module, further processing of the order, the SOM module being another component that detects one or more suspicious orders placed for one or more substances;
• apply, by the one or more processors executing the SOM module, a plurality of checks to the order and setting corresponding suspicious order indicators, each suspicious order indicator of the suspicious order indicators being indicative whether the order is suspicious for a respective check of the plurality of checks, the plurality of checks includes comparing the order with a first set of historical orders from the customer and a second set of historical orders from a plurality of customers;
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• based at least in part on the comparing, determining, by the one or more processors executing the SOM module, whether to mark the order as suspicious.