1. A method of managing drug prescription orders within a network of pharmacy resources including a plurality of pharmacy locations having a least one employee that are 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 compound drug prescription order; creating a task object at a first network computer at a first pharmacy location, wherein the task object is associated with the OOD object, wherein the task object stores work associated with the OOD object and the task object is used to carry and save work performed on the prescription order; identifying by the first network computer an equipment type needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order; identifying by the first network computer base components needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order; identifying by the first network computer an expertise needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order; determining by the first network computer a second pharmacy location geographically separate from the first pharmacy location for making the compound drug based on the identified equipment type, the identified base components needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order and the identified expertise needed to make the compound drug specified by the compound drug prescription order; electronically routing the task object from a first queue stored on the first network computer at the first pharmacy location to a second queue stored on a second network computer at the determined second pharmacy location and wherein the first and second network computers are associated with a first and a second pharmacy resource, respectively; making the compound drug specified in the compound drug prescription order; and dispensing the compound drug prescription order to the customer at the second retail pharmacy location.