Patent ID: 8838612

Claim:
A method of implementing fulfillment management, the method comprising: receiving a sales order, wherein the sales order includes a plurality of order lines; determining that at least one of the plurality of order lines includes bypass order content and two or more of the plurality of order lines does not include bypass order content; assigning inventory for the at least one of the plurality of order lines that includes bypass content based on a First In First Out (FIFO) method; scoring each of the two or more of the plurality of order lines that does not include bypass content individually, wherein the scoring comprises weighting order line attributes and wherein the order line attributes include one or more of order type, line type, requested date age, or customer priority; accessing one or more rules defining a service level agreement applicable to the sales order, wherein the rules comprise definition of one or more of partial quantity agreements, minimum quantity thresholds, order line fill percentages, and minimum release amounts; assigning the one or more rules to each of the two or more of the plurality of order lines that does not include bypass content individually; based on the assigned rules, defining a priority rank of each of the two or more of the plurality of order lines that does not include bypass content; specifying fulfillment of inventory to the sales order based on the priority rank and scoring of each of the two or more of the plurality of order lines that does not include bypass content; and assigning inventory to one or more of the two or more of the plurality of order lines that does not include bypass content based on the specified fulfillment.