OPTIMIZED DATABASE COORDINATION AND SUPPLY CHAIN EFFICIENCY

摘要

Methods for optimizing database coordination and supply chain efficiency is presented. The methods coordinate inventory databases, outlet branding requirements, and customer information among at least outlets and suppliers, to enable outlets to offer for sale products not held in their own inventory, and ensure that such products are delivered directly to the customer in accordance with that outlet's branding requirements. A provider can aggregate supplier databases and outlet orders to more efficiently and profitably coordinate inventory distribution. Branding templates and requirements are provisioned to permit custom packaging on demand. Distributing the burden of packaging, shipping, and warehousing more optimally exhausts inventory of a common supplier by aggregating requests from multiple outlets, while concomitantly providing custom branded packaging on behalf of each outlet. Optimization and efficiency is further achieved by dynamically distributing updatable status indicators within the supply chain, which can be reflected by the contents of webpages and other catalogs.