Patent ID: 8655855

Claim:
In a warehouse having decentralized management, a method comprising: receiving a confirmation of a warehouse activity on goods from a goods processing system of the warehouse, where the warehouse activity is an operation related to processing or movement of goods in a warehouse, and the confirmation includes an electronic document indicating verification of the goods and completion of the warehouse activity, which includes a request to post the confirmation to an enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, where posting the confirmation to the ERP system makes the goods available as indicated in the confirmation for an ERP activity on the goods; storing the confirmation in a memory as a preliminary confirmation, instead of posting the confirmation to the ERP system in response to the request to post the confirmation; delaying the posting of the confirmation to the ERP system to enable receiving a request for a change to the preliminary confirmation prior to an expiration of the delay; determining if a change to the preliminary confirmation is requested prior to the expiration of the delay; and posting the preliminary confirmation as a final confirmation to the ERP system to finalize the confirmation of the warehouse activity at the expiration of the delay.