Orders & Fulfillment
What is distributed order management?
Distributed order management is deciding, per order, which of several fulfillment locations should ship it. It weighs stock availability at each node, distance to the customer, shipping cost and speed, and the capacity of each location, then commits the inventory and releases the work.
It becomes necessary at the point where more than one location could fill the same order. Before that the routing rule is trivial, and after it the difference between a good rule and a naive one shows up directly in freight cost.
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