SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR REPLENISHMENT IN A FREIGHT TETHERING ENVIRONMENT

摘要

Systems, methods, and machine readable medium are provided for replenishing product in a freight tethering environment. A pick list is generated at a hub store including one or more items that need to be replenished at a spoke store. It is determined whether the pick list can be fulfilled by the hub store. If the pick list cannot be fulfilled by the hub store, then the one or more items on the pick list is aggregated to a replenishment need of the hub store. The aggregated replenishment need of the hub store and the spoke store is communicated to a distribution center. Product is received from the distribution center based on the aggregated replenishment need, and the pick list for the spoke store is fulfilled from the received product.

主权项

1. A method of coordinating product replenishment for multiple stores in response to separately generated replenishment signals from separate store-specific computing systems, the method comprising:
receiving, at a first computing system associated with a hub store, a transmission from a second computing system associated with a spoke store, the transmission including a product replenishment request identifying one or more items to be replenished at the spoke store; generating, by the first computing system at the hub store, a pick list including the one or more items based on the transmission received from the second computing system; determining, by the first computing system, whether the pick list can be fulfilled by the hub store based on inventory information associated with the hub store retrieved from an inventory database maintained by the first computing system; in response to determining that the pick list cannot be fulfilled by the hub store, aggregating, by the first computing system, the one or more items on the pick list to a replenishment need of the hub store; transmitting, by the first computing system, the aggregated replenishment need of the hub store and the spoke store to a third computing system associated with a distribution center; updating the inventory database by the first computing system in response to receipt of product from the distribution center based on the aggregated replenishment need; and outputting, by the first computing system, the pick list for the spoke store from the received product to facilitate fulfillment of the pick list by the hub store.