Dark Store Fulfillment

Dark-store fulfillment is where AIERP starts to look like a quick-commerce platform.

Functional Areas

• store eligibility
• delivery radius and zones
• store-specific assortment
• location-specific stock
• picker assignment
• delivery ETA
• order lifecycle

Recommended Flow

flowchart LR
  USER[Customer or channel request]
  STORESEL[Nearest eligible store selection]
  ORDERABLE[Orderability check]
  STOCK[Canonical stock mutation]
  PICKER[Picker assignment]
  ORDER[Dark store order lifecycle]

  USER --> STORESEL
  STORESEL --> ORDERABLE
  ORDERABLE --> STOCK
  STOCK --> PICKER
  PICKER --> ORDER

Documentation Expectations

For dark-store workflows, the docs should describe:

• what chooses the store
• what owns stock truth
• how order cancellation restocks inventory
• how delivery completion closes picker workload

Current Transition Focus

The platform is moving toward:

• canonical stock reads
• canonical stock writes
• explicit order lifecycle transitions

This should be documented as a migration, not as a binary “done/not done” state.