Systems to fulfill a picked sales order and related methods therefor

US10796357B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Walmart Apollo, LLC · US

Inventors

• Pratosh Deepak Rajkhowa · Bengaluru, IN
• Ameya Ajay Shendre · Bengaluru, IN
• Shekhar Gupta · Bengaluru, IN
• Pavan Kumar Raichur Rajoli · Bengaluru, IN
• Austin Lee Smith · Burlingame, US
• Michael Gilbert Ebener · San Francisco, US
• Vidyanand Krishnan · Sunnyvale, US

Key dates

• Filing date: May 5, 2017
• Grant date: Oct 6, 2020
• Expiry date: Nov 2, 2038

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/083
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Some embodiments include a system. The system can include one or more processors and one or more non-transitory memory storage devices storing computer instructions configured to run on the processor(s) and perform acts including: receiving a request for a picked sales order; promising the good(s) of the picked sales order for receipt by the customer at a receivable clock time; after promising the good(s) of the picked sales order for receipt by the customer at the receivable clock time, detecting a delay condition associated with making ready the one or more goods of the picked sales order for receipt by the customer at the receivable clock time; and communicating a notification of the delay condition to a receiving party. Other embodiments of related systems and methods are also provided.