Patent ID: 8510179

Claim:
A computer-implemented method comprising: synchronizing inventory transaction information within a computerized inventory management system, wherein the computerized inventory management system comprises a plurality of computer systems, and an integration server, the computer systems are configured to communicate with the integration server via a network, each of the computer systems is configured with at least one corresponding inventory system of a plurality of inventory systems, the synchronizing is performed in response to a source inventory transaction, the synchronizing is performed between any plurality of the plurality of inventory systems, and the synchronizing comprises extracting inventory transaction information in a source format, wherein the inventory transaction information comprises source inventory transaction information, the source format is associated with a source inventory system, the source inventory system is one of the plurality of inventory systems, and the source inventory transaction is executable by the source inventory system, at least in part, by virtue of the inventory transaction information in the source format being in the source format, converting, at the integration server, the inventory transaction information in the source format into inventory transaction information in an intermediate format, converting, at the integration server, the inventory transaction information in the intermediate format into inventory transaction information in a target format, wherein the target format corresponds to a target inventory system, and the target inventory system is another of the plurality of inventory systems, pushing the inventory transaction information in the target format to the target inventory system, and generating a target inventory transaction in the target inventory system, wherein the generating the target inventory transaction comprises determining whether the target inventory transaction is appropriate to the target inventory system, wherein the determining is based, at least in part, on whether the target inventory transaction is executable by the target inventory system, and whether executing the target inventory transaction on the target inventory system accomplishes a result on the target inventory system equivalent to a result on the source inventory system accomplished by executing the source inventory transaction on the source inventory system, and if the target inventory transaction is executable by the target inventory system, the target inventory transaction is executable by the target inventory system, at least in part, by virtue of the inventory transaction information in the target format being in the target format.