Abstract: Methods and systems for automated request fulfilment processing. A computer system receives a plurality of requests for resources, each request being for a respective resource and having an associated latest time for fulfilment of the request and it periodically, for unfulfilled requests among the plurality of requests, determines, using a machine learning model, for each unfulfilled request, an predicted cost of fulfilment of the unfulfilled request at times between a current time and the associated latest time for the unfulfilled request. It then identifies, from among the unfulfilled requests, one or more unfulfilled requests for which its lowest predicted cost of fulfilment is at a time matching the current time, and transmits a request to a resource supplier of the respective resource to fulfil the identified one or more unfulfilled requests.