International Business Machines Corporation

France Savard

Krishna Venkatraman

Chi-Yi Kuan

Rob Parkin

Paritosh Desai

Fedor N Dzegilenko

Emrah Zarifoglu

John Crowther

Xiaowei Bao

David Davtian

Pavel Zelinsky

A method, system and computer program product for fulfilling an online order. An online order to purchase an item(s) is received. The 'candidate locations' that stock the item(s) of the online order and that can be used to fulfill at least a portion of the online order are determined. A stockout cost for each of these candidate locations for fulfilling an item of the online order may be calculated, where the stockout cost is a cost of a potential lost sale of the item of the online order by the candidate location if the candidate location fulfills the item of the online order. A shipping location among the candidate locations to fulfill the item is then determined based at least in part on the stockout cost for each of the candidate locations for fulfilling the item. The item is then shipped to the customer from the determined shipping location.

Avoidance of product stockouts through optimized routing of online orders

An apparatus for providing relative optimized pricing for markdown items is provided. A financial engine for determining revenue for determining sales costs is provided. An optimization engine receiving input from the financial engine and uses the determined sales costs to provide relative optimized pricing for markdown items and provides pricing and a promotion calendar for non-markdown items.

Providing markdown item pricing and promotion calendar

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Montreal, Canada

France Savard