# Distributed order management (DOM)

Distributed order management (DOM) is order routing scaled to a network: each order is placed across fulfillment locations (warehouses, 3PLs, stores) instead of a single default facility, and the term names both the discipline and the product category. A DOM engine weighs inventory, proximity, cost, and capacity to pick the optimal source, and splits orders only when rules justify it. DOM is the routing core of [order management](/content/order-management/index.html).

## Route Every Order to Its Best Source

Pipe17 weighs inventory, proximity, cost, and capacity, and picks the source for every order.