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Someone decides to sell a product. Product Marketer Maintains Product Information. Buyer Places Purchase Order.Product Marketer creates product information including copy, images, and other supporting materials and makes product information available to the Customer (Product Marketer Maintains Product Information). Marketer Maintains General Site Content.
When new inventory is needed Buyer Places Purchase Order. When shipments arrive Shipment Receiver Receives Shipment, then Inventory Mover Puts Away Inventory.
Customer Finds Product. Placing Customer Adds Product to Cart and Placing Customer Places a Sales Order (Online Checkout). Alternatively Placing Customer Places a Sales Order (Through CSR).) or Placing Customer Places a Sales Order (Through EBay).
If desired during checkout or for other reasons, Customer Creates and Edits Account (Profile). As desired Customer Reviews Order History and StatusOnce order is ready Company Approves Sales Order. If Customer decides to, Customer Cancels Order.
Once order is ready Company Approves Sales Order.
When Buyer issues a purchase order to order new inventory from Supplier (Buyer Places Purchase Order). When shipment(s) based on a purchase order arrive Shipment Receiver unpacks the shipment (Shipment Receiver Receives Shipment). Inventory Mover puts inventory away in desired locations in the warehouse, and records information about the shipment receipt and the location and other information about the inventory (Inventory Mover Puts Away Inventory). When inventory is not sufficient in a pick location Inventory Mover does Stock Move from a bulk location (Inventory Mover does Stock Move). Fulfillment Manager adds items to a picklist. Picker picks all items for all orders on a picklist. Packer packs picklist items and records information about the packages in a shipment. Carrier picks up the packages and delivers them to the Ship-To Customer. (Company Fulfills Sales Order). Accountant Sends Invoice and Receives Payment. (Accountant Sends Invoice and Receives Payment)Sometimes special cases come up, like Carrier Does Not Deliver Shipment to Customer and Carrier Returns Undeliverable Shipment to Company.
Customer Returns Product. Company Processes Return Received.