Architecture

The architectural formula of PRISM Commerce and its business, transaction, sourcing, role and fulfillment views.

Status
Explanatory
Version
1.1
Canonical source
Canonical Specification v1.1 §§4–5, 8
License
CC BY 4.0

many inventory sources -> one retailer / MoR -> customer

Many inventory sources are organized into one customer-facing retail model. The MoR role is identified according to the actual contractual and payment structure. In parallel, PRISM brings together distributed expertise: assortment curation, product knowledge, and professional guidance use the platform’s shared infrastructure.

  1. Distributed Global Inventory Distributed Human Expertise
  2. PRISM Commerce Infrastructure
  3. Unified Customer Experience
The prism metaphor (Canonical Specification §4). Text equivalent: Distributed Global Inventory plus Distributed Human Expertise, through PRISM Commerce Infrastructure, to Unified Customer Experience.

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PRISM Commerce Initiative. “Architecture.” https://prismcommerce.org/en/architecture/. Based on Pobezhimov, A., PRISM Commerce — Canonical Specification, Version 1.1, https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.22978762.

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