ONLINE MERCHANTS TO THIRD PARTY WAREHOUSE PROVIDERS BROKER AND ORDER FULFILLMENT SYSTEM

摘要

An online broker and order fulfillment system is coupled with different third party warehouse providers that each operate one or more third party warehouses and a plurality of online merchants that use the services provided by the third party warehouse providers An order fulfillment server provides a common merchant interface to the services provided by the third party warehouse providers, a common warehouse interface to allow each of the different third party warehouse provider to communicate with the order fulfillment server in a common way including the status of the services they provide and allows each of the different third party warehouse providers to review all services requested by them, and a system operator interface to allow system operators to manage the third party warehouses including creating disaster recovery plans in case of a warehouse failure and generating a reverse invoice for each third party warehouse