Virtual Negative Sale Warehouse for Combined Merchandise Sales
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing e-commerce platforms face challenges in configuring flexible sales modes for combined merchandise objects, where each sub-merchandise must use the same sales mode, limiting sales opportunities and increasing operational complexity for users and system resources.
Innovation Solution
The implementation of a method and device that allow combined merchandise objects to be processed by creating virtual negative sale warehouses, enabling salable information to be provided even when physical stock is unavailable, and generating transaction orders based on separate prerouting warehouses for each sub-merchandise, facilitating sales and reducing system resource usage.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If the same sales mode is adopted for all sub-merchandises of a combined merchandise object, then the system configuration is simple, but sales opportunities are limited and operational complexity increases for users
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the combined merchandise object into multiple sub-merchandise objects, each of which can be independently routed to different warehouses with different sales modes. This allows the front-end combined object to maintain a unified presentation while the back-end sub-objects can have different stock statuses and sales configurations, resolving the contradiction between sales mode flexibility and system complexity.
2Ease of operation
If separate orders are placed for each sub-merchandise with different stock statuses, then each sub-merchandise can be handled independently, but user operations become complex and system resources are occupied
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges multiple sub-merchandise objects into a single front-end combined merchandise object that can be ordered in one transaction. The system performs separate prerouting for each sub-merchandise to different warehouses based on their stock statuses, but presents them as a unified product to the user. This combining approach simplifies user operations while maintaining the productivity benefits of independent handling through the backend routing mechanism.
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AI summary
A method may comprise: receiving, by a front-end transaction central server, a browse request for browsing detailed information of a combined merchandise object, and acquiring stock information of each sub-merchandise object, respectively; if a target physical warehouse has a physical stock of at least one first sub-merchandise object and no physical stock of at least one second sub-merchandise object, and if a target virtual negative sale warehouse corresponding to the target physical warehouse has a virtual negative sale stock of the at least one second sub-merchandise object, providing salable information of the combined merchandise object; and when a request for buying the merchandise object is received, generating a transaction order, and determining the target physical warehouse as a prerouting warehouse of the first sub-merchandise object, and determining the target virtual negative sale warehouse as a prerouting warehouse of the second sub-merchandise object.