Fulfillment architecture

Possible fulfillment paths after procurement.

Status: Explanatory
Version: 1.1
Canonical source: Foundational Paper v1.1 §7.3
License: CC BY 4.0; Report a correction

After procurement, the product may:

move through a platform-controlled facility;
move through a logistics partner’s facility;
be consolidated with other products;
be inspected, repacked, or relabeled where applicable; or
in an appropriate implementation, be shipped from a supplier-controlled location.

These are optional operational paths. The model is not defined by mandatory possession of a warehouse or by mandatory supplier-direct shipment.

Foundational Paper v1.1, §7.3 (Fulfillment paths) · DOI 10.5281/zenodo.22978759

Responsibility for the customer-facing flow: Business architecture. Comparison with dropshipping: Business Model Comparison.

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