RULES-BASED DECLINATION OF DELIVERY FULFILLMENT

摘要

An order fulfillment control circuit detects an opportunity to deliver a product to a particular entity and responds by obtaining a first set of rules that identify at least one product that can fulfill the detected opportunity as a function of partialities for that entity. After identifying at least one product that can fulfill the detected opportunity, the control circuit then obtains a second set of rules that rule out products as being suitable for the particular entity as a function of overriding concerns and uses those rules to remove one or more of the candidate products from consideration notwithstanding present availability of the removed candidate product. When the resultant set of suitable candidate products constitutes a null set, the control circuit automatically declines to fulfill the opportunity to deliver a product to the particular entity without also suggesting a substitute product to the particular entity.