Patent ID: 11861558
Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
Field: Digital communication (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G  H | IPC G

Claim 22:
23. A method, comprising:
receiving an order for an item from a retailer node;
acquiring, by a node, an encrypted average volume of inventory of an item of a plurality of supplier nodes and an encrypted incoming inventory of the item for the plurality of supplier nodes;
generating, by the node, an order distribution policy specifying how much of the item of the order is to be provided from each respective supplier from among the plurality of supplier nodes via execution of an algorithm on the encrypted average volume of inventory of the item and the encrypted incoming inventory of the item for the plurality of supplier nodes included in the encrypted average volume and encrypted incoming inventory, via the processing device; and
invoking execution of a smart contract on a blockchain ledger of a blockchain network which executes the algorithm to split the order into a plurality of orders based on the order distribution policy and submit the plurality of orders to the plurality of supplier nodes over the blockchain network.