JP2002279116A - Business support system for wholesale market - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To promote the efficiency of managing a flowers and ornamental plants market and smoothen the business by interlocking a series of business, that is, preparation business, auction business and post-auction business in the flowers and ornamental plants market. SOLUTION: Supply terminals 3A, 3B obtain supply information from a shipment slip B stuck to a flower and ornamental plant commodity A. A supply seal printer 4 outputs a supply seal C where supply information obtained from a server 1 is printed. An auction operating device 6 inputs flower vase commodity information from the supply seal, performs as auction with an auction proposal machine, and saves the output of a successful bit seal D and the action result information in the server. A business form and slip issuing device 5 issues business forms and slips for the general auction business collected in the server. The server can take the commodity in advance by the supply terminal 3A by wireless, and provides the auction site between a producer and a purchaser and the information of the auction result through the Internet connecting terminal.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a business support system for supporting business in a wholesale market such as a flower market, a fruits and vegetables market, and a fish market by using computer equipment.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Computer equipment for business support in the current flowering market is divided into the following business contents.

Computer equipment for assisting in auctioning (selling) commodities Computer equipment for assisting operations in the flowering market other than auctioning The above-mentioned computer equipment for assisting in auctioning is based on the following method. It is classified into types.

(A) Auction assisting computer: In conducting an auction, the price is determined only by the gesture of a person without using any computer equipment for determining the price of the product. However, computer equipment will be used to register the determined price and purchaser.

[0005] (b) Display auction assisting computer: In conducting an auction, the price of a product is determined by a "hand auction" method of gesturing, but information on the product is notified to a purchaser (hereinafter referred to as a purchaser). Computer equipment is used for this purpose. In many cases, the computer equipment includes the functions of a “hand-carrying auxiliary computer”.

(C) Computer for assisting in machine bidding: Information of a product is displayed in a purchase entry, and up to price determination is performed by computer equipment.

[0007] The above-mentioned "business assistance computer other than auction" mainly includes a commodity receiving processing function, a bidding result processing function,
It often has various slip / brand issuing functions and others.

[0008]

The conventional "bidding auxiliary computer equipment" has the following problems.

(A) Auction assisting computer: This computer equipment only inputs the price determined as a result of the auction and the purchaser, and the price determination process and the determined price are completely shown in the purchase. There is no. In addition, since the operator inputs memos and the like entered during the bidding for the determined price and the purchaser's input, the purchase price is often incorrectly calculated due to the bidding character of the bidder or erroneous input. .

(B) Display Auction Auxiliary Contributor--This computer equipment can display information on auctioned products and prices determined after auction on a display device. Similar to the "bid assist computer", the memo entered during the bid must be input by the operator, and there is a problem such as erroneous input.

(C) Machine auction computer: This machine auction computer displays the price during auction, the price after auction,
All purchases and purchases can be managed within Corn Pewter. However, the current computer equipment has not been systematized, including the work flow with the “business auxiliary computer other than the auction” equipment, and has been working from the preparation work before the auction to the auction business and the business after the auction. At present, a series of operations are not coordinated, and fragmentation of processing is a bottleneck in market operations.

Next, the conventional "business auxiliary computer equipment other than auction" has the following problems.

(A) With regard to flowering goods received from flower producers, it is necessary to input each computer and register it in order to determine the price after auction, etc. At present, an operator inputs a shipping slip from a flower producer attached to a product at an office (without looking at a product on site). This work has not been systematized, and is a hindrance to smooth market operations.

(B) For the flowering goods that have arrived, it is possible to adopt a purchase method called “pre-emption”, which secures the goods with the consent of the market before the entry and auction, but the information that the pre-emption has been received indicates the input of the arrival. If a machine auction computer is employed instead of automatically reflecting the data on the computer on which the auction has been made, short-selling may occur, in which products that have already been sold are auctioned off and bid for already sold products.

(C) The received flowering goods are inputted by a computer and stored in the computer as electronic data. However, there is no method for associating the stored electronic data with the actual flowering goods, and only human experience and memory are required. They are related, and the actual data may be mistaken for the electronic data in the computer at the time of price formation.

[0016] The above-mentioned various problems exist not only in the flower market but also in various wholesale markets such as the fruit and vegetable market and the fish market when computer equipment is used.

An object of the present invention is to provide a business support system for a wholesale market, which can make the operation of the wholesale market more efficient and smooth the business.

[0018]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, the present invention efficiently and smoothly cooperates a series of operations, ie, a preparation operation before auction, an auction operation, and an after-auction operation in a wholesale market. And a business information support system that can provide business support in cooperation with a wide-area network outside the market such as the Internet, and has the following configuration.

(1) A business support system for supporting business in a wholesale market by using computer equipment, comprising a database server connected to a market network, and receiving information obtained from a shipping slip attached to a received wholesale product in a market. An inbound terminal for storing in the server via a network, an inbound seal output device for printing inbound information obtained from the server through a market network and outputting an inbound seal for attaching to wholesale goods, and a wholesale obtained from the inbound seal A bidding operation device for inputting merchandise information, performing a bidding based on the wholesale merchandise information with a bidding machine connected with a bidding network, and storing bidding result information in the server through a market network; and the server. Form / slip to output the form / slip for the whole auction business of the wholesale goods collected by the company Characterized by comprising a device.

(2) The receiving terminal is wirelessly connected to a market network so as to be able to pre-fetch receiving information before receiving a wholesale commodity.

(3) The server is characterized in that the server determines the order at the time of auction of wholesale goods according to the order of arrival information given to the arrival seal output device.

(4) The server is provided with a bidding site between a producer and a purchaser of wholesale goods through a connection terminal with a wide area network.

(5) The auction operation device includes an output device for a successful bid sticker for affixing the result of the auction to a successful bid product.

(6) The bidding machine is characterized by comprising a display device for displaying the wholesale goods purchased by the buyer after the auction of the wholesale goods is completed.

(7) The server is characterized in that after the auction ends, the producer and the purchaser can obtain information on the wholesale commodity shipped by the producer and the wholesale commodity purchased by the purchaser through the wide area network. .

[0026]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a business support system showing an embodiment of the present invention. A flower market comprehensive information system including a machine auction system for simplifying market business in a flower market. The case of is shown.

In the system, various input / output terminal devices are connected by a market network 2 with the database server 1 as a central unit. The input / output terminal device is a wireless receiving terminal 3A to which a bar code reader or the like is attached with a print reader.
And wired receiving terminal 3B and receiving seal printer 4
And a form that performs issuance processing of forms and slips for bidding business in general.
A slip issuing device 5, a bidding operation device 6, and an Internet connection terminal 7 are provided. These devices have processing functions for information input and output via the market network 2, and are provided in a number corresponding to the size of the market and the functions of the devices. For example, a large number of receiving terminals 3A and 3B are provided.

The bidding operation device 6 includes at least a bidding operation console 6A, a display 6B, a printer 6C, and a bar code reader 6.
D and a bid display 6E, and a bid network 8
Through the network, and enables input and output of information necessary for auction in the market, and also enables input and output of auction information with the server 1 through the market network 2.

The Internet connection terminal 7 is connected to the server 1 using a wide area network such as the Internet as an information communication medium to provide auction information between producers and purchasers and to obtain auction result information after the auction is completed. To enable connection.

The business support system for the flower market having the above configuration will be described in detail below.

First, commodities in the flowering market are put into a packing case such as a cardboard box or a tray by a producer or a shipper (hereinafter referred to as a producer) in a predetermined number unit for each kind of flower. Shipped to. Then, in the flowering market, auctions are performed in various auction methods, and the purchaser bids down and purchases the product.

Here, "shipping slip B" handwritten by the producer is added to "commodity A" which is delivered to the market from "producer". Of course, since the market receives goods from a plurality of shippers from all over the country, many "shipping slips" are present in the market.

The number of "commodity A" that has arrived is checked by the market employee for the actual commodities and "shipping slip B".
As a result of the number check, if there is no mistake in the received quantity and the product type, a computer input is made.

As described in the above-mentioned "Problems to be Solved by the Invention", the computer input here is not an input that does not look at an actual product at the office, but is a receiving terminal corresponding to a wireless network LAN. Actual "Product A" at 3A
Can be entered in the vicinity of. According to the method of registering incoming goods using the input terminal 3A at this site, it is possible to perform input while confirming the actual "goods A" and "shipping slip B". Also, it is possible to greatly reduce errors such as quantities due to erroneous inputs.

It is to be noted that the same receiving input as that of the receiving terminal 3A can be input to the wired receiving terminal 3B installed in the office.

Next, the information of the “commodity A” for which the input of arrival is completed is stored in the magnetic storage medium 1 A such as a hard disk or a magnetic disk in the database server 1 via the market network 2. The information of the stored "Product A"
At any time, it is possible to extract information from the receiving terminals 3A and 3B, the Internet terminal 7, and the bidding console 6A.

The "commodity A" for which the number of members has been checked is loaded on a trolley in order to facilitate movement in the market. The goods loaded on the trolley are divided into sample goods that are moved to the place where the auction is actually performed and other goods. This embodiment corresponds to a sample auction conventionally performed in a flowering market. Sample auction means that when there are a plurality of identical "goods" stored in various packing cases shipped from "producer", only one of them is moved to the place where the bidding is performed, This is a bidding method used as a sample.

The “commodity A” for which the receipt input has been completed is printed by the receipt seal printer 4 for each packing case in which the “commodity A” is stored. The “arrival seal C” is affixed to “commodity A”.

The "arrival seal C" is read by a printed matter reader such as a bar code or the like indicating an arrival number which is manually or automatically assigned by the arrival terminals 3A and 3B at the time of arrival input, and information is stored therein. It is assumed that codes, characters and symbols that can be converted are printed. In the present embodiment, such print contents are collectively described as a barcode.

Here, as described in the above-mentioned “Problems to be Solved by the Invention”, when a product is purchased using the purchase method in which the purchase is made in advance, the bar code reader attached to the receiving terminals 3A and 3B is used. Then, by reading the “arrival sticker C” on which the barcode attached to “article A” is printed, the quantity of the commodity that has been pre-fetched from the quantity of “article A” stored in the database server 1 in the receipt input is read. It is possible to reduce and make it sold. This makes it possible to prevent short selling caused by the difference between the actual number of unsold products and the number of unsold products in the computer when auction is performed by the machine bidding computer.

In the above description, the market operator inputs data at the receiving terminals 3A and 3B based on the “shipping slip B” attached when the “product A” is received. It is also possible to input the arrival of used goods.

That is, the producer's personal computer at the producer's home is connected to the Internet, and the shipper himself can make an arrival input based on a predetermined input format from the home page of the corresponding flower market. In this case, the arrival input information input in a predetermined input format on the homepage reaches the Internet terminal 7 in the form of an e-mail, and the Internet terminal 7 registers the data in the database server 1. After registration, it is assumed to be the same as the above-mentioned processing after the arrival input.

Next, when the auction is actually started, the "commodity A" having the "arrival sticker C" affixed thereto and loaded on the cart is moved to the auction site.

Here, in order to determine the order in which to bid, the "arrival sticker C" is read in the order in which the bid is to be performed by the bar code reader 6D attached to the bid operation console 6A. Then, the bid operation console 6A pulls out the information of the determined “commodity A” from the database server 1 and can start the bid in the determined bid order. This allows
It is possible to arbitrarily determine the auction order of products according to the season and market price.

[0045] The information of "product A" can be pulled out from the database server 1 and a bid can be conducted. In that case, the information of the product is displayed on the displays 6B and 6E connected to the auction console 6A, the display 6B is used for the bidder, and the display 6E is used for a plurality of purchases for purchasing the product. . The "commodity A (sample)" is unloaded from the cart at the time of the auction, and the auction assistant informs the buyer of the auction. The bid operation console 6A enables a bid to be made with the information on the bid determined by the barcode reader 6D and the product presented by the bid assistant.

When the auction of a certain product is completed, the product is moved from the front of the auction console 6A to a place where the successful bid product is stored. At this time, the "successful bid sticker D" printed by the successful bidder seal printer 6C connected to the bid operation console 6A is attached to the product. "Successful bid sticker D" is printed not only on the sample product but also on products other than the sample product. The "successful bid seal D" other than the sample product is moved to a place where the successful bid product is stored together with the sample product, and is similarly affixed to the moved product other than the sample product.

Here, the purchase entry to participate in the product auction is
By operating the bidding machine 9 each of which is permitted to use, a desired product is bid.

When the bidding starts, the bidder 9
When the bid price reaches the desired purchase price while viewing the merchandise information displayed on the display unit and the current bid price, a purchase command is issued by operating the purchase switch attached to the bidding machine 9. The purchase command issued from the bidding machine 9 is transmitted to the bid operation console 6A via the bid network 8.

The transmitted purchase instructions are arranged in the auction console 6A in chronological order with the purchase instructions from other purchasers, and the purchasers are determined on a first-come-first-served basis.

When the "commodity A" can be auctioned off, a successful bid signal is transmitted from the auction operation console 6A to the bidding machine 9 used by the corresponding purchaser via the auction network 8, It is displayed on the display of the bidding machine 9 together with the successful bid product and the successful bid price.

When all the auctions of the day are completed, the results of the auctions are stored in the database server 1, and the information of the auction on that day is updated. That is, the purchase price is calculated for the purchase entry of the product, and the sales price is calculated for the producer who shipped the product.

The calculated amount can be printed by the form / slip issuing device 5 as a delivery note for the entry into the market and as a sales partition for the producer. The delivery note and the sales partition are sent to the relevant purchaser / producer by handing over or using a communication method such as mail or FAX.

For producers and purchasers who have a personal computer or the like that can be connected to the Internet network, a method of sending a delivery note and a sales and purchase partition by e-mail via the Internet network. Can be performed.

Also, various statistics can be created based on the results of auctions that are accumulated daily in the database server. The statistics created based on the results of the auctions can be arbitrarily referenced by buyers and sellers via various terminals connected to the network and the Internet network.

Further, in the embodiment, the case of the business support system for the flower market is shown. However, the present invention is applied to the business support for the vegetable market and the fish market in which flower products are replaced with vegetable products such as vegetables and marine products such as fishing. The operation and effect of the present invention can be obtained.

[0056]

As described above, according to the present invention, a comprehensive information processing system is provided in which a series of tasks of preparation work before auction, auction business, and business after auction in a wholesale market such as a flower market are linked. As a result, it is possible to improve the efficiency of the wholesale market operation and smooth operations, thereby contributing to market profits by reducing labor costs.

Specifically, (a) by using a wireless receiving terminal at the time of receiving, it is possible to improve the efficiency of receiving input work. In addition, it becomes possible to perform preemption processing by the same device,
It is possible to prevent short-selling due to the fact that the products involved in the auction are not reduced by pre-emption.

(B) At the time of arrival, the “arrival seal” is printed by the arrival seal printer and affixed to the product,
Even if the received product does not have a “shipping slip”, it is possible to manage the information such as the type of the product and the producer thereof for each packaging unit of the product, and it is possible to prevent the product from getting lost or lost. In addition, the input processing for reading the incoming seal at the time of pre-fetching can facilitate the operation.

(C) In addition to inputting goods while confirming a large number of “shipping slips” affixed to the shipped goods, the producer can use the Internet to input the goods by himself / herself. , It is possible to reduce market operations.

(D) Since it is possible to determine the order in which goods are to be auctioned by the arrival seal before the auction starts, it is no longer necessary to input the goods in consideration of the auction order in advance, thereby reducing the time required for inputting goods. , Allowing flexible determination of the auction order.

The flexibility of the auction order is determined by taking the order in which the marketer sells the product at a high price when the price of the product fluctuates widely, such as the weather of the day or various events (Mother's Day, Obon, Oganishi). Can contribute to market management.

(E) After the auction of a wholesale product is completed,
By affixing the "successful bid sticker" to the product, it is possible to determine the product purchased by the purchaser himself with reference to the sticker when all the auctions are completed.

(F) When the auction of a certain wholesale product is completed and the purchaser can purchase the desired product, information on the product purchased by the customer is displayed on the bidding machine. After the completion of all the auctions, it is possible to determine the product purchased by the user.

(G) Both the producer and the shipper can directly obtain various slips of the goods shipped / purchased using the wide area network as electronic data, so that the market cost (paper cost / delivery fee) is obtained. Leads to a reduction in

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of a business support system for a flowering market according to an embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Database server 2 ... Market network 3A, 3B ... Receiving terminal 4 ... Receiving seal printer 5 ... Form / slip issuing device 6 ... Bidding operation device 7 ... Internet terminal 8 ... Bidding network 9 ... Bidding machine

Claims (7)

[Claims] 1. A business support system for supporting business in a wholesale market by computer equipment, comprising: a database server coupled to a market network; and a market network for obtaining arrival information obtained from a shipping slip attached to a received wholesale commodity. An arrival terminal that stores the information in the server through a market network; an arrival seal output device that prints the arrival information obtained from the server through a market network and outputs an arrival seal to be attached to wholesale products; and a wholesale product that is obtained from the arrival seal. Auction operation device for inputting information, performing a bidding based on the wholesale merchandise information with a bidding machine connected with a bidding network, and storing auction result information in the server through a market network; Form / slip issuance that processes the output of forms / slips for the entire auction business of collected wholesale goods Wholesale market business support system which is characterized in that a location. 2. The wholesale market business support system according to claim 1, wherein the receiving terminal is wirelessly connected to a market network so as to be able to pre-fetch the receiving information before receiving the wholesale commodity. 3. The wholesale market business support system according to claim 1, wherein the server determines the order at the time of auction of wholesale goods in the order of the arrival information given to the arrival seal output device. . 4. The server according to claim 1, wherein the server includes a bidding site between a producer and a purchaser of the wholesale commodity through a connection terminal with a wide area network. Business support system for the wholesale market. 5. The business support system for a wholesale market according to claim 1, wherein said auction operation device comprises an output device for a successful bid sticker for attaching a bid result to a successful bid product. . 6. The wholesaler according to claim 1, wherein the bidding machine includes a display device for displaying the wholesale goods purchased by the buyer after the auction of the wholesale goods is completed. Market operation support system. 7. The server according to claim 1, wherein after the auction is completed, the producer and the buyer can obtain information on the wholesale commodity shipped by the producer and the wholesale commodity purchased by the purchaser through a wide area network. Any one of items 1 to 6
Business support system for wholesale market as described in.