PRISM Commerce: A Framework for Inventoryless Cross-Border Retail with On-Demand Sourcing

PRISM Commerce, expanded as Proxy Retail with Inventoryless Sourcing Model, describes an inventoryless cross-border retail architecture in which a unified retailer presents products, receives a paid customer order, sources and purchases the corresponding product from external inventory, and manages the downstream customer flow. The paper explains the classification problem, architecture, Expert Commerce pillar, Market Access Enablement, comparison with adjacent models, practical applicability, limitations, and governance of the framework.