JP2006206280A - Logistic objects management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a logistic objects management system capable of managing accurately the data concerning various pallets used in logistics together with products. <P>SOLUTION: The logistic objects management system is equipped with a products order management database 12 possessed by a company interested B to accommodate the quantity data of pallets on the basis of the packaging style instruction according to the products order placed to another company interested A and a register 11 installed at the company B, for example its reception, to register the data including the quantity, possessor, delivery date, etc. concerning rental pallets delivered by the company A, the company's own pallets 100b, and other pallets 100c, and a pallet management company 20 compares the quantity data of the pallet accommodated in the database 12 with the rental database of the pallet registered in the register 11, and if the two are identical, the quantity of rental pallets 100a is made definite in the pallet management database 22 as rental database, and the data concerning each pallet is put under management. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a management system for distribution items such as containers such as beer bottles delivered with the product at the time of delivery and acceptance of the product, a pallet for forklift handling, and an electronic voucher using an IC tag that is repeatedly used, In particular, the present invention relates to a management system for various distribution articles including rental distribution articles.

  Delivery and acceptance of products between an assembly company of products such as automobiles and electrical products and a group company that delivers parts to this assembly company, or between a primary parts company and a secondary parts company in the group In order to facilitate the transportation of products by forklifts within each company, forklift pallets are also carried along with the products.

  The pallet delivered with the product is collected as an empty pallet to the product delivery side. This pallet includes rental pallets (rental distribution parts) that have been rented with rental companies, pallets owned by the company, and other pallets such as one-way pallets that are used by multiple companies. .

  The management of the delivery (distribution) of these pallets and the contract processing of rental contracts are conventionally performed by the method shown in FIG. 4, for example. That is, when the trading company A borrows a necessary number of pallets from the branch 10a of the rental company 10 of the pallet 100, the rental is established by performing a registration operation in the rental contract processing apparatus 101a or 101b. Trading company A uses pallet 100 to deliver the product to trading company B.

  At this time, the rental contract of the trading company A is terminated by registering the trading company A and the trading company B in the presence of the product 102 (for example, reception of the trading company B) by the rental contract processing apparatus 101c. Rental contract of trading company B is newly started. By repeating this process, the pallet 100 moves between a plurality of affiliated companies.

  FIG. 5 shows an example of a rental contract processing apparatus (101a to 101c) that performs a rental contract for a pallet. The rental contract processing apparatus 101 includes a ten key 111, a pallet delivery side card insertion hole 112, a pallet receiving side card insertion hole 113, and a receipt output hole 114.

  The numeric keypad 111 is an input means for inputting the number of delivered pallets 100, and all data can be registered by a confirmation button. Corresponding customer cards 115 and 116 are inserted into the pallet delivery side card insertion hole 112 and the pallet receiving side card insertion hole 113, respectively.

  On the cards 115 and 116, at least the ID number of the trading company is recorded. In the illustrated example, the ID number of the trading company A is recorded on the card 115, and the ID number of the trading company B is recorded on the card 116. The confirmation receipt output hole 114 outputs a confirmation receipt 117 in which at least the delivery company, the receiving company, the quantity, the rental contract processing apparatus number, the rental contract processing apparatus installation location, and the date and time are recorded.

  In addition, the rental contract processing apparatus 101 has a function of transmitting the stored data to the outside (the terminal 103 of the rental company 10 in FIG. 4) via a telephone line. The rental contract processing apparatus 101 is installed in all companies that rent rental items.

  Next, a specific rental contract procedure using the rental contract processing apparatus 101 and a rental pallet management method of the rental company 10 will be described with reference to FIGS.

  Now, for example, it is assumed that trading company B orders a variety of products 102 to trading company A by setting a predetermined packing form instruction. Then, the trading company A delivers various products 102 to the trading company B in a predetermined packing form (in a state of being placed on a pallet) in accordance with the predetermined packing form instruction.

  At this time, the material and possession of the pallet are not limited as long as they have a predetermined size. Therefore, the rental pallet 100a, the own pallet 100b owned by the company (for example, trading company A), and the one-way used among a plurality of companies. Various pallets such as other pallets 100c such as pallets are used.

  Then, at the delivery location of the product 102 (such as reception of the trading company B), first, the driver of the trading company A and the inspector of the trading company B cause the rental contract processing apparatus 101 to read the cards 115 and 116, respectively. That is, the driver inserts the card 115 into the pallet delivery side card insertion hole 112. On the other hand, the inspector inserts the card 116 into the pallet receiving side card insertion hole 113. Next, the number of movements of the rental pallet 100a is input by the ten key 111. If this number is correct, the confirmation button is pressed.

  At this time, the data obtained by the numeric keypad operation is transmitted to the rental company 10 of the rental pallet 100a via the telephone line and registered in the terminal 103. At this time, on the rental contract processing apparatus 101 side, a confirmation receipt 117 is output from the confirmation receipt output hole 114 to both. Thereby, the rental contract of the rental pallet 100a of the trading company A is terminated, and the rental contract of the rental pallet 100a of the trading company B is started.

  When the rental pallet 100a is collected, the driver of company A and the inspector of company B cause the rental contract processing apparatus 101 to read the cards 115 and 116, respectively. At this time, the places where the cards 115 and 116 are read are reversed. Thereby, the rental contract for the rental pallet 100a of the trading company B is terminated, and the rental contract for the rental pallet 100a of the trading company A is started. The rental company 10 manages the number of pallets that have been rented as described above based on the registration data of the terminal 103.

In addition, as an example of the management method of delivery of rental items by rental contract, a new rental contract conclusion process equivalent to the newly received quantity received in the receiving customer ledger is performed and newly delivered to the delivery customer register The following Patent Document 1 describes that a rental contract cancellation process corresponding to the delivered delivery quantity is performed.
Japanese Patent No. 2748124

  Various pallets (100a to 100c) are used as pallets (distributed articles) that are moved (distributed) together with products between the delivery side and the receiving side of products (articles) as described in FIG. Nevertheless, conventionally, the rental company 10 only manages the number of rental pallets 100a. For this reason, for example, the owner of the existing pallet at the trading company B is unknown, and it is not possible to determine where and when the pallet was delivered.

  For example, trading company A is not limited to accepting orders only from trading company B, but immediately after the shipping company that leaves trading company A delivers it to trading company B, empty pallets can be collected by trading company A. This is because there are many situations such as going to different delivery destinations.

  In such a case, the trading company B lacks, for example, its own pallet 100b owned by the trading company B, or another pallet 100c such as a pallet owned by the trading company A, a one-way pallet, a pallet that the owner does not know, etc. I will do.

  In this case, it is a loss for trading company B that its own pallet 100b is insufficient and the location is unknown, and if there is an extra pallet 100c such as a one-way pallet or a pallet that the owner does not know, a pallet storage location can be secured. It will disappear. In addition, there is a problem in that it costs money to dispose of unnecessary pallets that have accumulated.

  The number of rental pallets 100a is input to the rental contract processing apparatus 101 in the presence of the driver of the trading company A and the inspector of the trading company B, but there has been a human error such as incorrect input. In such a case, since there is no means for checking it, a divergence occurs between the actual number of rental pallets and the registered number.

  For this reason, the rental company 10 that manages the rental pallet quantity based on the data of the rental contract processing apparatus 101 determines the rental pallet quantity with incorrect data, and trouble occurs when charging the rental fee. There was a problem.

  The present invention has been made in view of the above points. The purpose of the present invention is to accurately store various data such as owners, delivery dates, and the like regarding distribution items including various types such as pallets distributed along with products (articles). It is to provide a distribution article management system that can be managed.

  A distribution article management system of the present invention for solving the above-described problem is a database that stores quantity data of a distribution article that is owned by an article receiving side and that is designated by a packing form instruction at the time of ordering a product to the article delivery side. A registration device for registering each data including quantity relating to a rental article and a distribution article including a plurality of other distribution articles, which are installed on the article receiving side and delivered from the article delivery side; The registration device is configured to be communicable via a communication line, and the quantity data of the distribution goods stored in the database is compared with the quantity data of the distribution goods registered in the registration apparatus. When determining the quantity of the rental distribution article in the rental database, the data including the quantity relating to the distribution article is It is characterized in that a physical circulating item management apparatus.

  In addition, the distribution article management device is characterized in that when the two data do not match, the registration device performs processing for checking and correcting the quantity data of the distribution item.

  The registration device registers data including a quantity relating to the collected distribution item when the distribution item is collected to the delivery side of the item, and the distribution item management device stores the quantity registered in the registration device. Based on the data included, the data including the quantity relating to the distribution goods existing on the goods receiving side is managed.

(1) According to the inventions described in claims 1 to 3, when the delivery side of the article delivers the same quantity of the circulation article as the quantity of the distribution article designated by the packing form instruction at the time of ordering the product, The quantity data of the distribution article in the receiving side database and the quantity data of the distribution article registered in the registration device match. For this reason, the quantity of rental distribution goods delivered to the receiving side of the article is determined based on the quantity of distribution articles specified by the packing instruction at the time of product ordering (that is, the quantity of distribution articles registered in the registration device). It is calculated by the quantity obtained by subtracting the quantity of other distribution items, and can be easily and reliably determined and managed on the management apparatus side. For this reason, it is possible to accurately calculate the rental fee for rental distribution goods.

  In addition, the distribution goods may be any material or possession as long as the dimensions and size conform to the packing form instruction at the time of ordering the product, so rental distribution goods, distribution goods owned by the receiving or delivery company, etc. Various distribution items such as distribution items that are commonly used among other companies are used for product delivery. For this reason, by registering various data related to these various distribution articles, that is, data such as the type of the distribution article, the owner, the delivery date and time, in addition to the quantity, each of the various distribution articles can be surely obtained. Can be managed.

In addition, data including quantities relating to the various distribution articles managed by the distribution article management apparatus can be provided to a database owned by the article receiving side via a communication line, and a fine service can be provided.
(2) According to the invention described in claim 2, when the quantity data of the distribution article in the database on the article receiving side does not match the quantity data of the distribution article in the registration apparatus, the distribution article of the registration apparatus The quantity data can be confirmed and corrected, and the quantity of rental distribution goods can be determined reliably.
(3) Further, according to the invention described in claim 3, the registration device also registers data including the quantity relating to the circulation article collected to the article delivery side, for example, the data of various kinds of circulation articles, owners, etc. Therefore, the quantity of the distribution goods existing on the article receiving side can be notified as a residual quantity to the database owned by the article receiving side via the communication line.

  In addition, the owner of the extra distribution goods other than the distribution goods owned by the goods receiving side is determined based on the data such as the type, owner, delivery date and time of the existing distribution goods on the receiving side of the goods. The excess distribution goods can be disposed of. This helps to reduce the amount of waste and activates the distribution of distribution items.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings, but the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments. FIG. 1 shows a configuration of an embodiment in which the present invention is applied to a distribution article management system that delivers a distribution article, for example, a pallet, together with a product between trading companies A and B, and manages a pallet and a rental contract by a pallet management company. Show.

  In FIG. 1, the same parts as those in FIGS. 4 and 5 are denoted by the same reference numerals. 11 is installed at the reception side of the product (article), for example (in the illustration, it is installed at the trading company B side, but when the product receiving side is the trading company A, it is also installed at the trading company A). This is a registration machine for registering various data relating to pallets including rental pallet 100a, own pallet 100b, other pallet 100c such as one-way pallet, for example, delivery quantity, collection quantity, owner, delivery date, collection date, etc.

  The registration machine 11 has the same functions as those of the rental contract processing apparatus 101 described with reference to FIG. 5, and also the quantity and owner of other pallets 100 c such as a private pallet 100 b and a one-way pallet other than the rental pallet. Various data such as delivery and collection date can be registered.

  Accordingly, the registration machine 11 has, for example, the configuration shown in FIG. 5 and a read-only memory storing various programs for registration processing and data confirmation / correction processing, and other pallets 100c such as a rental pallet 100a, a private pallet 100b, and a one-way pallet. Random access memory that stores data such as the number of delivered items, number of collected items, owner, delivery, date of collection, etc., and various menus and instruction items during the registration process and data confirmation / correction process are displayed. And a communication control unit for transmitting data in the registration device 11 to the terminal 23 of the pallet management company 20 via a communication line.

  Reference numeral 12 denotes a product order management database owned by the trading company B, which stores, for example, delivery instruction data and delivery package data at the time of ordering products to the trading company A, and used quantity data of pallets, for example, logistics equipment based thereon. Is done.

  The product order management database 12 is stored, erased, rewritten, etc. by a terminal 13 equipped with a computer.

  A pallet management database 22 is provided in the pallet management company 20 that performs rental pallet contract processing and centralized management of pallet information. 23 is a terminal equipped with a computer provided in the pallet management company 20, and is configured to be able to communicate with the registration machine 11 and the terminal 13 of the trading company B via a communication line.

  The pallet management company 20 (of the terminal 23), based on various data relating to each pallet registered in the registration machine 11 and data such as pallet usage quantity data stored in the product order management database 12 owned by the trading company B, The number of rental pallets is determined, the data is stored in the pallet management database 22, and each of the data is managed.

Next, the operation of the system configured as described above will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG. First, trading company B orders a product from trading company A by specifying a predetermined packing form. At this time, the delivery instruction data, the shipping packing data, and the pallet usage quantity data based on them are stepped. In S ₁ , it is stored in the product order management database 12.

In step S ₂ , the pallet management company 20 takes in the data stored in the product order management database 12, creates a database of the number of pallets used at the time of delivery, and stores the data in the pallet management database 22.

Trading company A delivers the ordered product 102 to trading company B using a quantity of pallets (100a + 100b + 100c) in accordance with the packing instruction. In step S ₃ at this time, based on the inspection's of the presence of the supplier and trading company B of the trading company A, rental pallet 100a, own palette 100b, every other pallet 100c, such as one-way pallets, delivery number, the owner The data such as the delivery date is registered in the registration machine 11.

In step S _4, and transmits the data containing the delivery number of each type of pallet that has been registered in the registration unit 11 pallet management company 20 side (terminal 23).

  The pallet rental contract processing is performed in the same manner as the method described in FIGS.

In step S _5, the pallet management company 20, and the pallet total number data sent from the registration device 11 (the number of sheets + other pallet 100c of number + own palette 100b rental pallet 100a), the product ordering management comparing the quantity used data palette created in step S ₂ based on the data of the database 12.

Stored at step S ₆ when the comparison result is matched, the use quantity data of the pallet, own pallet 100b, the number of rental pallet 100a by subtracting the other pallet 100c, the palette management database 22 to confirm the rental pallet number To do.

Also when the comparison result of the step S ₅ do not match, it activates the pallet number checking step (step S _7), and transmits the use quantity data of the pallet in the pallet management database 22 in order to re-check the registration device 11 (step S _8).

Then subjected to recheck request in step S ₉ is in registration device 11 side, again check the palette number in step S _10, in step S _11, the new data obtained by modifying the data in the registration device 11 to the pallet management company 20 Send.

In the processing of these steps S _{9 to} S ₁₁ , for example, a recheck request signal is displayed on the display unit of the registration machine 11, and the total number of delivered pallets and their breakdown are reconfirmed by the supplier and the inspector. However, it is executed by making new data.

Next, in step S ₁₂ in pallet management company 20, to confirm the new data transmitted, in step S _6, own pallet 100b from the use quantity data, based on the new data of the pallet, other pallets 100c such as one-way pallets Is subtracted to determine the number of rental pallets 100a, the number of rental pallets is determined and stored in the pallet management database 22.

  As described above, the number of rental pallets can be accurately determined by comparing the data based on the order in the product order management database 12 owned by the trading company and the data actually registered in the registration machine 11 at the time of delivery.

  Based on the number of rental pallets accurately determined in this way, the pallet management company 20 calculates the rental fee and charges it to the trading companies A and B, and at the product order management database 12 side owned by the trading company, the pallet management company 20 Information can be provided.

  FIG. 3 shows the situation when empty pallets are collected from trading company B to trading company A. At the time of empty pallet collection, the collector of trading company A and the inspector of trading company B are present. Originally, data relating to each pallet, that is, data such as the number of recovered pallets 100a, the own pallet 100b, and other pallets 100c such as a one-way pallet, the owner, and the collection date and time are registered in the registration machine 11.

  Data relating to the pallet of the registration machine 11 is sent to the pallet management company 20 and stored and managed in the pallet management database 22.

  At the time of collecting the empty pallet, the comparison with the pallet number data based on the product order management database 12 described above is not performed, and the database of the pallet management database 22 is determined only by the data of the registration machine 11.

  The pallet management company 20 provides the trading company B with the accumulated data of the other pallets 100c such as the own pallet 100b and the one-way pallet existing in the trading company B after collecting the empty pallets as the remaining number data of the trading company B.

  Conventionally, for example, each company has a shortage of its own pallets 100b, other pallets 100c are left over, and trading company B has discarded other pallets 100c that have no handle.

However, according to the data provided from the pallet management company 20 as in the present invention, it is easy to determine from which company the surplus other pallet 100c was brought in, so that the company can dispose of it, It helps to reduce waste of ISO 14000 and leads to expansion of reuse pallets.
In the above embodiment example, the pallet for forklift handling is taken as an example of the distribution article. However, the present invention is not limited to this, but the container such as a beer bottle, the box for storing the product, and the other products from the delivery side to the receiving side. All items and equipment to be delivered can be applied.

 In particular, electronic slips using IC tags, which are expected to develop in the future, are effective when applied to logistics sites that are rented, owned, or mixed with other companies.

The schematic diagram of the system at the time of distribution goods delivery showing the example of one embodiment of the present invention. The flowchart of the process which represents the embodiment of this invention and the system at the time of distribution article delivery performs. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS The schematic of the system at the time of distribution goods collection | recovery showing the one embodiment example of this invention. Schematic which shows an example of the conventional distribution goods management system. The block diagram which shows an example of a rental contract processing apparatus. Schematic which shows the mode at the time of delivery and collection | recovery of the conventional distribution goods management system.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 11 ... Registration machine, 12 ... Product order management database, 13, 23 ... Terminal, 20 ... Pallet management company, 22 ... Pallet management database, 100 ... Pallet, 100a ... Rental pallet, 100b ... Own pallet, 100c ... Other pallets, 101 ... rental contract processing device, 102 ... product, A, B ... trading company.

Claims (3)

A database that stores the quantity data of the distribution goods that are owned by the receiving side of the article and specified by the packing form instruction when the product is ordered to the delivery side of the article;
A registration device that is installed on the receiving side of the article and registers data including quantities relating to the rental distribution article and the distribution article including a plurality of other distribution articles delivered from the article delivery side;
The database and the registration device are configured to be communicable via a communication line, and compare the quantity data of the distribution articles stored in the database with the quantity data of the distribution articles registered in the registration apparatus. A distribution article management system, comprising: a distribution article management device that, when the data matches, determines the quantity of the rental distribution article in a rental database and manages data including the quantity relating to the distribution article.   2. The distribution according to claim 1, wherein the distribution article management apparatus performs processing for checking and correcting the quantity data of the distribution article with respect to the registration apparatus when the two data do not match. Goods management system. The registration device, when collecting the distribution goods to the delivery side of the article, registers data including the quantity relating to the distribution goods to be collected,
The distribution item management apparatus manages data including a quantity relating to a distribution article existing on an article receiving side based on data including a quantity registered in the registration apparatus. Distribution goods management system.