Patent ID: 8266069
Filing Date: 2012-09-11
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An apparatus, comprising: an order fulfillment server device including an interactive hierarchical inbound shipment order configuration tool adapted to receive input from merchants to configure hierarchical inbound shipment orders corresponding with hierarchical inbound shipments respectively for a set of one or more warehouses, wherein each of the hierarchical inbound shipment orders has a plurality of levels including a product level and a plurality of container levels, and wherein the tool is adapted to configure hierarchical inbound shipment orders at least by: the order fulfillment server device further including a packing list generation module adapted to generate at least one packing list from the configured hierarchical inbound shipment orders for each of the hierarchical inbound shipments, each of the at least one packing lists including a listing of one or more of the shippable container packages in its hierarchical inbound shipment.