1. A method of managing prescription orders within a network of pharmacy resources connected by an information processing system, the method comprising: creating an original order data (OOD) object containing a set of information received from a customer during placement of a prescription order; creating a task object that is associated with the OOD object, wherein the task object stores work associated with the OOD object; routing at least one of the OOD object and task object from a first queue associated with a first network computer to a second queue associated with a second network computer based on a criteria recorded by the first network computer, and wherein the first and second network computers are associated with a first pharmacy resource and a second pharmacy resource, respectively; and performing a portion of work required to fill the prescription order by one of the first and second pharmacy resource that receives the task object in its queue.