Order fulfillment
AssigneeNIKE, Inc.
InventorsVivek Farias, Aryan Iden Khojandi, Ritesh Madan, Chad Yan, Guang Yang
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Abstract
Systems and methods for the automated fulfillment of orders from a fulfillment network including consumer-facing retail locations. Orders are partitioned into suborders, which are in turn assigned to retail locations based on forecasted demand for the suborder items at the retail locations. The assignment process considers operational data for each retail location such as the number of employees, the inventory of suborder items, shipping rate cards, return policies, business hours, pick decline estimations, etc.
Claims1
A system for fulfilling orders from a fulfillment network comprising a plurality of consumer-facing retail locations, the system comprising at least one computer comprising processing circuitry and memory, the memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processing circuitry, cause the processing circuitry to:
- retrieve inventory information for the plurality of retail locations in the fulfillment network;
- receive a customer order for multiple items;
- partition the customer order, based at least in part on the inventory information, into multiple suborders for fulfillment by multiple respective retail locations of the plurality of retail locations, each suborder comprising at least one of the multiple items;
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- transmit each suborder to the selected retail location for fulfillment.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.