Method and Apparatus for Hierarchical Inbound Shipment Order Configuration

摘要

An interactive hierarchical inbound shipment order configuration tool receives input from merchants to configure hierarchical inbound shipment orders. The tool allows merchants to configure hierarchical shipments with multiple levels including a product level, one or more container levels, and a shipment transportation level. The tool allows merchants to perform the following: include product type objects in the product level representing physical products and container objects in the container level(s) representing physical containers; create associations between the product type object(s) and container object(s) at the container level(s) each representing a number of products packaged into a number of containers; create associations between container object(s) at different container levels each representing a number of containers packaged into a number of containers; and create associations between the container object(s) and a shipment transportation object at the shipment transportation level each representing a number of containers included on a shipment transportation vehicle.