JP2001312636A - System and method for inter-enterprise product sale and recording medium stored with program thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a system and a method for inter-enterprise product sale which can reduce the workload for obtaining the approval of a boss of purchasing company side and shortens the period for obtaining the approval. SOLUTION: A person who is in charge of ordering on the purchasing company side when ordering an article through a buying company orderer user terminal 10 requests a selling company server 30 to obtain the approval of the boss for the ordering the product. The server 30 sends an approval request to the user terminal 20 of the boss of the purchasing company orderer. The boss sends approval information showing whether or not the order is approved from the user terminal 20 to the selling company server 30 through a network 100.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a business-to-business product sales system and a business-to-business product sales method for ordering products between companies using a network, and in particular, to easily obtain the approval of a superior when ordering. The present invention relates to a business-to-business product sales system, a business-to-business product sales method, and a recording medium that records the program.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when a company orders products, in particular, consumables such as office supplies are not actually ordered by a supervisor who has authority and responsibility for ordering, such as a manager of each department, but actually order them. Usually, employees such as clerks using office supplies place orders. Since the employee actually manages the remaining number of office supplies such as copy paper, the employee can order these products at an appropriate time.

[0003] On the other hand, with the rapid spread of the Internet, ordering and receiving orders for products have been carried out via networks. That is, the ordering employee uses the user terminal to access the server of the selling company of the product. Here, usually, the ordering of a product, even if it is formal, requires the approval of the supervisor.

However, when products are sold between companies using a network such as the Internet,
The approval function was not provided by the selling company and had to be performed by the purchasing company. For this reason, usually, indirect materials for companies are not systematized for approval in purchasing companies, and are usually performed manually. If this is difficult to catch, such as a busy boss, the person in charge of ordering intends to place an order, and the period from when the order is actually placed has been lengthened. This allows
There has been a situation in which consumables have run out.

[0005] As a system taking this point into consideration, an in-house L
When an ordering person places an order for a product using an AN or the like, an approval request for a product order is transmitted from his own terminal to his / her boss's terminal, and the boss responds to the approval request transferred to his / her terminal. There is a system in which when an approval is input, the order is automatically transmitted to a seller's server via a network such as the Internet.

[0006]

However, even in this system, the ordering person requests the boss to approve the product order, obtains the approval from the boss, and then places an order with the seller. It did not reduce the amount of work required to obtain the approval, nor shorten the time to obtain the approval.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve the above problems, and it is an object of the present invention to reduce the amount of work required for obtaining the approval of a supervisor of a purchasing company and to shorten the period for obtaining the approval. It is an object of the present invention to provide a possible business-to-business product sales system, a business-to-business product sales method, and a recording medium that records the program.

[0008]

In order to achieve the above object, the invention according to claim 1 comprises a sales company server which manages product information, product order information and supervisor approval information, and a product order server. And a purchaser orderer user terminal for transmitting an approval request order for requesting the boss to obtain the approval of the product order to the sales company server via the network, and a response to the approval request received from the sales company server. And a purchasing company orderer boss user terminal transmitting via a network.

According to a second aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the sales company server includes a product management means for transmitting product information to the purchase company orderer user terminal, and a product from the purchase company orderer user terminal. And an approval request order. The approval request order management means sends an approval request to the supervisor's purchasing company orderer / boss user terminal for the approval request order. An approval unit that manages a response from the purchasing company orderer boss user terminal to the approval request, an approval route management unit that manages business process information that is information of the boss requiring approval, a purchasing company orderer user terminal, User management means for managing user company user information using the purchasing company orderer boss user terminal.

[0010] According to a third aspect of the present invention, in accordance with the second aspect of the present invention, for each purchasing company, the selling company management for transmitting business process information to the approval route managing means and transmitting user user information to the user managing means. It further comprises a user terminal.

The invention described in claim 4 is the invention according to claim 2 or 3.
In the invention described, the purchaser's orderer boss user terminal obtains product information from the product management means when an input to refer to the product information managed by the product management means is made, and the obtained product information , A request for approval of an order for a product selected from the product information displayed on the first display, and an order for approval requesting to obtain approval of a superior for the order. And first transmission means for transmitting to the order management means.

According to a fifth aspect of the present invention, in the invention of any one of the second to fourth aspects, the purchasing company orderer boss user terminal displays the approval request transmitted from the approval request order management means. A second display unit; and a second transmission unit that transmits, to the approval unit, approval information indicating whether to approve or reject the approval request displayed by the second display unit. I do.

According to a sixth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to any one of the first to fifth aspects, the network comprises:
It is characterized by being the Internet.

According to a seventh aspect of the present invention, in the first aspect of the present invention, the product is a computer device.

[0015] The invention according to claim 8 is to provide a sales company server via a network with a purchase company orderer user terminal for a product order and an approval request order for requesting the supervisor to obtain approval for the product order. A first transmitting step of transmitting, and a second transmitting step of transmitting an approval request to the supervisor's purchasing company orderer boss user terminal by the sales company server for the approval request order transmitted by the first transmitting step. A third step of transmitting, via a network, approval information to the sales company server as to whether to approve or deny the approval request transmitted in the second transmission step from the boss user terminal of the purchase company orderer of the boss to the sales company server. And a transmitting step.

According to a ninth aspect of the present invention, in the invention of the eighth aspect, the first transmitting step obtains product information from the sales company server when the ordering person places an order for the product, and obtains the obtained information. The product information is displayed on the purchaser's orderer user terminal, and an order for a product selected from the displayed product information is transmitted.

According to a tenth aspect of the present invention, in the invention of the eighth or ninth aspect, the second transmitting step includes: business process information which is information of a supervisor who needs approval;
A purchase company orderer boss user terminal for transmitting an approval request is determined from the purchase company orderer user terminal and the user information of the user company using the purchase company orderer boss user terminal, and the determined purchase company orderer boss user terminal And sending an approval request to the client.

According to an eleventh aspect of the present invention, in the invention of the tenth aspect, when the approval information transmitted in the third transmitting step is the approval information for approval, the business process information and the user of the using company are used. The information further includes a determining step of determining whether there is a boss who needs approval next, and as a result of the determination in the determining step, when there is a boss requiring approval, An approval request is transmitted in the second transmission step.

According to a twelfth aspect of the present invention, in the invention of the tenth or eleventh aspect, when the business process information and the use company user information are registered / changed / deleted by an administrator who manages the sales company server, The method further comprises a registration update step of registering and updating business process information and user company user information managed by the sales company server.

[0020] The invention of claim 13 provides the invention according to claims 8 to 1
2. The invention according to any one of the items 2), wherein the network is the Internet.

The invention according to claim 14 is the invention according to claims 8 to 1
3. The invention according to any one of items 3), wherein the product is a computer device.

According to a fifteenth aspect of the present invention, a sales company server sends a product order from a purchase company orderer user terminal and an approval request order for requesting the supervisor to obtain approval for the product order via a network. A first transmission process for transmitting, and a second transmission process for transmitting an approval request to the supervisor's purchasing company orderer / boss user terminal by the sales company server in response to the approval request order transmitted by the first transmission process. A third step of transmitting approval information as to whether to approve or not to approve the approval request transmitted by the second transmission processing from the boss user terminal of the purchasing company orderer to the sales company server via the network. And transmitting processing.

According to a sixteenth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to the fifteenth aspect, the first transmission process obtains product information from a sales company server when an order person places an order for a product, and obtains the obtained information. The product information is displayed on the purchaser's orderer user terminal, and an order for a product selected from the displayed product information is transmitted.

[0024] According to a seventeenth aspect of the present invention, in the invention of the fifteenth or sixteenth aspect, the second transmission processing includes: business process information which is information of a supervisor who needs approval;
A purchase company orderer boss user terminal for transmitting an approval request is determined from the purchase company orderer user terminal and the user information of the user company using the purchase company orderer boss user terminal, and the determined purchase company orderer boss user terminal And sending an approval request to the client.

According to an eighteenth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to the seventeenth aspect, when the approval information transmitted by the third transmission processing is the approval information for approval, the business process information and the user of the using company are used. With reference to the information, a determination process is further performed to determine whether there is a boss who needs approval next, and as a result of the determination process, when there is a boss requiring approval, An approval request is transmitted by the second transmission processing.

According to a nineteenth aspect of the present invention, in the invention according to the seventeenth or eighteenth aspect, when the business process information and the user information of the user are registered / changed / deleted by the administrator managing the sales company server, It is characterized in that a registration update process for registering and updating business process information and user company user information managed by the sales company server is further performed.

According to a twentieth aspect of the present invention, in the invention of the fifteenth to nineteenth aspects, the network is the Internet.

[0028] According to a twenty-first aspect of the present invention, in any one of the fifteenth to twentieth aspects, the product is a computer device.

[0029]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

Referring to FIG. 1, an inter-company product sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a purchasing company orderer user terminal 10, a purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20,
It comprises a sales company server 30, a sales function manager terminal 40, and a communication network 100 such as the Internet for interconnecting these.

The purchasing company orderer user terminal 10 is an information processing device such as a personal computer. The purchasing company orderer user terminal 10 has a function of accessing product information provided by the selling company server 30 on the network 100 and displaying the product information on a screen. The product information is information on a product such as a computer device, a compact disc, a book, software or office consumables, and includes information such as a product name, a model number, a product number, a color or a price. The purchase company orderer user terminal 10 further has a function of transmitting purchase desire information, which is product information of a product that the orderer desires to purchase, to the sales company server 30 via the network 100.

The purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20 is an information processing device such as a personal computer. Purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20 displays a list of order information to be approved by the boss and transmits approval information to approve or reject the order to sales company server 30 via network 100. Having.

The sales company server 30 is constituted by an information processing device such as a workstation server. The sales company server 30 includes a product management function 31, an approval request order management function 32, an approval function 33, an approval route management function 34, and a user / user management function 35.

The product management function 31 transfers the product information to the purchase company orderer terminal 10 in response to a request from the purchase company orderer user terminal 10 to display the product information.
The information is displayed on the display unit of the terminal.

The approval request order management function 32 notifies the purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20 of a confirmation of whether or not to approve the product order simultaneously with the ordering of the product from the purchasing company orderer user terminal 10. Accept the request for approval request that you want. The approval request order management function 32 notifies the purchase company orderer boss terminal 20 that there is an approval item when the supervisor's approval request order is received at the same time as the product order from the purchasing company orderer user terminal 10. . This notification may be made using an e-mail. When the supervisor of the orderer receives the notification and receives a request from his or her purchasing company orderer terminal 20 to display a list of orders to be approved, the order list is sent to the purchasing company orderer supervisor terminal 20. indicate.

The approval function 33 processes a response to a product order from the purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20. If the response is to approve the order, the contract for buying and selling the product becomes floating and firm, and the contract becomes fully valid. If the response is not to approve the order, the order was absent.

The approval route management function 34 determines a supervisor (a plurality of persons) to be approved by setting for each company. This setting is performed from the sales company management terminal 40. The number of supervisors that need approval varies depending on the company, department, and product type. For example, a large-scale company A needs only the approval of the section manager, while a small-scale company B needs the approval of the president. In addition, an order of 100,000 yen or less is only required to be approved by the section manager, but an order larger than 100,000 yen needs to be approved by the manager. Approval route management function 34
Manages such individual information, and notifies the appropriate boss of the purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20 whether or not to approve it.

The use company / user management function 35 manages the companies that use the inter-company product sales system according to the present embodiment and the users of each company.

The sales company manager terminal 40 is an information processing device such as a personal computer. Companies that use purchasing company information and user information for each purchasing company / Companies that use users /
It has a function of transmitting to the user management function 35 and a function of transmitting a logical business process to be approved for each company to the approval route management function 34. The logical business process to be approved means information such as the relationship between the person in charge and the boss, the authority of the boss to be approved according to the contents of the order, information on the boss to be approved, and the number of bosses to be approved.

A purchasing company using the inter-company product sales system according to the present embodiment determines details such as the type of product ordered by this system and the approval route of the boss for the order by contract with the sales company. The sales company inputs it from the sales company manager terminal 40.

Next, an inter-company product sales method using the inter-company product sales system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG.
This will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. In the following description, it is assumed that the network 100 is the Internet.

Description will be given with reference to FIG. When ordering a product, the purchasing company orderer accesses the product management function 31 of the selling company server 30 from his / her purchasing company orderer user terminal 10 via the Internet (step S1).

In response, the product management function 31 transfers and displays the product information to the purchasing company orderer user terminal 10 (step S2).

The orderer is a purchase company orderer user terminal 10
The product to be purchased is determined from the product information displayed in step (2), and the purchase of the product is registered in the approval request order management function 32 (step S3). This product order is provisional rather than traditional. If the boss does not approve it after this, the order has not been received.

The seller can purchase the product of the order earlier by referring to the order registration as compared with the related art,
Or can be manufactured. It is rare that the boss's approval is not obtained. Therefore, the product can be delivered in a shorter time than before.

The registered approval request order management function 32
Using the approval route management function 34, the purchase company orderer boss who approves the order is determined, and an approval request is notified to the purchase company orderer boss user terminal 20 of the boss (step S4). The decision of the purchasing company orderer's supervisor using the approval route management function 34 is not performed for a product that does not require the supervisor's approval. In this case, a sales contract is definitely established by the order from the purchasing company orderer user terminal 10.

Next, description will be made with reference to FIG. The purchasing company orderer boss sends the sales company server 3 from his / her purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20 via the Internet.
The access is made to the approval request order management function 32 of step 0 (step S5). Even the busy purchasing company orderer boss usually checks once a day whether or not an e-mail has arrived at his / her purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20, and at that time an approval request has been received. That can be confirmed.

In response, the approval request order management function 3
2 transfers the list of orders to be approved by the currently operating boss to the purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20 and displays the list (step S6).

The purchasing company orderer's boss refers to the contents of the order from the list information, and sends approval information of approval or denial to the approval function 33 (step S7). At this time, the purchasing company orderer's boss can make partial approval instead of simple approval or simple denial. For example, the approval can be made after making a correction such as reducing the quantity. In this case, this modified order approval request is sent to the next boss, if any, by the purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 2 of that boss.
Sent to 0.

The approval function 33 includes an approval route management function 34
Is used to confirm the existence of the purchaser's supervisor who should approve the order next (step S8). If the next purchasing company orderer boss exists (step S8 / YE
S), the list information of the orders to be approved is transferred to the purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 20 of the boss and displayed.

If the next purchaser orderer's boss does not exist (step S8 / NO), the completion of the approval is notified to the approval request order management function 32 (step S8).
9).

Next, an operation in which a sales company sets a business process for approval of a purchasing company will be described with reference to FIG.

The sales company manager is a sales company manager terminal 4
0, registering, changing, and deleting the user information of the purchasing company of the present system and the user information of each user in the user / user management function 35 (step S).
100).

The sales company administrator operates the sales company administrator terminal 4
Using 0, the business process, which is the approval route of each purchasing company, is registered / changed / deleted. The registration / change / deletion is performed with respect to the user company / user management function 35 (step S200).

The above-described embodiment is an example of a preferred embodiment of the present invention, and the present invention is not limited thereto, and various modifications can be made without departing from the gist of the present invention.

[0056]

As is clear from the above description, according to the present invention, the purchasing company can improve the efficiency of the purchasing operation by providing the approval function of the purchasing company. .

In addition, the seller company can promise short-term delivery by being able to predict the demand of the purchasing company at an early stage.

Further, since the sales company can efficiently manage the stock of the product, it is possible to reduce the price of the product and increase the number of products sold.

Furthermore, by enabling a business process for approval for each purchasing company to be settable for each company,
The number of system maintenance steps on the sales company side can be reduced, and more purchasing companies can be handled with one system.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a business-to-business product sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a business-to-business product sales method using a business-to-business product sales system according to an embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 is a block diagram showing a business-to-business product sales method using the business-to-business product sales system according to the embodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 4 is a block diagram illustrating a business-to-business product sales method using the business-to-business product sales system according to the embodiment of the present invention;

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 Purchasing company orderer user terminal 20 Purchasing company orderer boss user terminal 30 Sales company server 31 Product management function 32 Approval request orderer management function 33 Approval function 34 Approval route management function 35 User / user management function 40 Sales company management Terminal 100 network

 ──────────────────────────────────────────────────続 き Continuation of the front page (72) Inventor Takehiro Nasu 5-7-1 Shiba, Minato-ku, Tokyo Inside NEC Corporation (72) Inventor Hoken 5-7-1 Shiba 5-chome, Minato-ku, Tokyo NEC Corporation F term (reference) 5B049 AA01 AA02 BB11 CC05 DD01 EE00 FF03 GG02 GG04 GG07

Claims (21)

[Claims] 1. A sales company server that manages product information, product order information, and supervisor approval information, a product order, and an approval request order that requests the supervisor to obtain approval for the product order. And a purchasing company orderer boss user terminal transmitting the response to the approval request received from the selling company server via the network. A business-to-business product sales system characterized in that: 2. The sales company server, comprising: a product management means for transmitting the product information to the purchase company orderer user terminal; and an order for the product and the approval request order from the purchase company orderer user terminal. An approval request order management means for managing and transmitting the approval request to the supervisor's purchasing company orderer / boss user terminal for the approval request order; and the purchase request for the approval request transmitted by the approval request order management means. Approval means for managing a response from the company orderer boss user terminal; approval route management means for managing business process information which is information of the boss requiring approval; the purchasing company orderer user terminal and the purchasing company order 2. A business-to-business product according to claim 1, further comprising: user management means for managing user company user information using a user boss user terminal. Sales system. 3. A sales company manager terminal for transmitting the business process information to the approval route management unit and the user company user information to the user management unit for each purchasing company. The business-to-business product sales system according to claim 2. 4. When the purchase company orderer boss user terminal receives an input to refer to the product information managed by the product management means, the terminal obtains the product information from the product management means. First display means for displaying the obtained product information, an order for a product selected from the product information displayed on the first display means, and an approval request order for requesting the boss to obtain approval for the order And a first transmitting means for transmitting to the approval request order managing means, the inter-company product sales system according to claim 2 or 3. 5. The purchasing company orderer boss user terminal comprises: a second display means for displaying an approval request transmitted from the approval request order management means; and an approval request displayed by the second display means. And a second transmitting means for transmitting, to the approval means, approval information indicating whether to approve or not to be approved.
Business-to-business product sales system described in section. 6. The apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said network is the Internet.
The business-to-business product sales system according to any one of the above items. 7. The business-to-business product sales system according to claim 1, wherein the product is a computer device. 8. A first transmission for transmitting a product order from a purchaser orderer user terminal and an approval request order for requesting the manager to obtain approval for the product order to a sales company server via a network. A second transmitting step of transmitting an approval request to the supervisor's purchasing company orderer boss user terminal by the sales company server with respect to the approval request order transmitted by the first transmitting step; A third transmission for transmitting, via the network, approval information for whether to approve or deny the approval request transmitted in the transmission step 2 from the purchasing company orderer / boss user terminal of the supervisor to the sales company server. A method for selling products between companies, comprising: 9. The first transmitting step comprises: when the orderer places an order for the product, obtains product information from the sales company server; and stores the obtained product information in the purchase company orderer user terminal. 9. The method of selling products between companies according to claim 8, further comprising: transmitting an order for a product selected from the displayed product information. 10. The second transmitting step includes: business process information which is information of a boss requiring approval; and use of a user company using the purchasing company orderer user terminal and the purchasing company orderer supervisor user terminal. 10. The purchasing company orderer boss user terminal transmitting the approval request is determined from the customer information and the approval request is transmitted to the determined purchasing company orderer boss user terminal. Business-to-business product sales method. 11. When the approval information transmitted in the third transmission step is approval information for approval, the approval is referred to with reference to the business process information and the user information of the user. The method further includes a determining step of determining whether or not there is a boss that requires the request. As a result of the determination in the determining step, when there is a boss requiring the approval, the approval request is sent by the second transmitting step. The method for selling products between companies according to claim 10, wherein the transmission is performed. 12. The business process information managed by the sales company server when the business process information and the user company user information are registered / changed / deleted by an administrator managing the sales company server. 12. The inter-company product sales method according to claim 10, further comprising a registration update step of registering and updating the user information and the user information of the user. 13. The method according to claim 8, wherein the network is the Internet.
2. The business-to-business product sales method according to any one of 2. 14. The business-to-business product sales method according to claim 8, wherein the product is a computer device. 15. A first transmission for transmitting a product order from a purchasing company orderer user terminal and an approval request order for requesting to obtain approval of a supervisor for the product order to a sales company server via a network. Processing, and for the approval request order transmitted by the first transmission processing, a second transmission processing of transmitting an approval request to the boss user terminal of the purchasing company orderer of the boss by the sales company server; A third transmission for transmitting, via the network, approval information for whether to approve or deny the approval request transmitted by the transmission process from the boss user terminal of the purchasing company orderer of the boss to the sales company server; A recording medium storing a program, characterized by executing a process and a process. 16. The first transmission process, when the ordering person places an order for the product, obtains product information from the sales company server, and stores the obtained product information in the purchase company orderer user terminal. 16. A recording medium storing the program according to claim 15, wherein the program is displayed on a display, and an order for a product selected from the displayed product information is transmitted. 17. The second transmission process includes: business process information that is information of a boss requiring approval; and use of a user company that uses the purchasing company orderer user terminal and the purchasing company orderer supervisor user terminal. 17. The purchasing company orderer boss user terminal transmitting the approval request from the customer information is determined, and the approval request is transmitted to the determined purchasing company orderer boss user terminal. Recording medium on which the program of the above is recorded. 18. When the approval information transmitted by the third transmission processing is approval information for approval, the approval is referred to by referring to the business process information and the user information of the user. Further executing a determination process for determining whether or not a required boss exists. As a result of the determination process, when there is a boss requiring approval, the approval request is sent by the second transmission process. A recording medium on which the program according to claim 17 is transmitted. 19. The business process information managed by the sales company server when the business process information and the user company user information are registered / changed / deleted by an administrator managing the sales company server. 19. The recording medium according to claim 17, further comprising a registration update process for registering and updating said user information and said user information. 20. The recording medium according to claim 15, wherein the network is the Internet. 21. The recording medium according to claim 15, wherein the product is a computer device.