Universal ordering for manufacturing custom products

摘要

A computer-implemented method for multi-vendor printing including maintaining a data store that includes information about service level agreements with partner systems, wherein a partner system enables customers to order a plurality of customized print products, and wherein a service level agreement designates maximum delays for manufacturing customer print orders, and characteristics of print vendors, receiving a customer print order from one of the partner systems, the print order specifying a customized print product, determining a latest ship date for the customized print product, selecting one of the print vendors to manufacture the customized print product, and receiving updates from the selected print vendor and relaying the received updates to the partner system that issued the customer print order.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented method for custom manufacturing, comprising:
maintaining, by a server computer, a data store comprising (1) information about service level agreements with a plurality of partner systems, wherein a partner system enables customers to order a plurality of custom manufactured products, and wherein a service level agreement designates maximum delays for manufacturing different custom products, and (2) characteristics of a plurality of vendors, each vendor capable of manufacturing at least one of the plurality of custom manufactured products; receiving, by the server computer, a customer order from one of the partner systems, the order specifying a custom manufactured product; determining, by the server computer, based on the maximum delay designated in the applicable service level agreement, a desired ship date for the custom manufactured product; and selecting, by the server computer, one of the plurality of vendors to manufacture the custom product.