CPC G06Q 10/087 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/06315 (2013.01)] | 20 Claims |
1. A computer-based method for managing an electronic purchase order including one or more items, said method comprising:
receiving, from an order management system, a quantity of a selected item of the electronic purchase order;
requesting, from a warehouse management system, attributes of the selected item, the attributes comprising available lots that include the selected item, an amount of inventory of a selected lot of the available lots, an expiration date associated with the selected lot, and a serving days of the selected item;
determining a difference between the expiration date associated with the selected lot and a predetermined date;
comparing the serving days of the selected item with said determined difference; and
providing an instruction, via a communications protocol over a data network, to the warehouse management system, based on said comparing.
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