JP2002007747A - Selling system, method and device thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To sell merchandise to a plurality of group members by using a transaction condition which is defined only for the affiliated group. SOLUTION: A dedicated group network is provided by each group, the transaction condition only for the group is distributed to each dedicated group network, to which the transaction condition can be transmitted without causing it to flow to the outside, and the merchandise is sold within the dedicated group network by using the distributed transaction condition.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

[0001] The present invention relates to a sales system, a sales method, and a sales apparatus using communication. In particular, the present invention relates to a sales system and a sales method for selling products to members of a plurality of organizations in accordance with predetermined transaction conditions, and a sales apparatus used in such a sales system.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Heretofore, so-called occupational area sales have been known as a method of selling goods. The occupational area sales is a product sales method for selling products to employees of a specific company, such as an in-house discount price, under transaction conditions specified for the company.
In occupational sales, when selling products to multiple companies, even if they are the same product, it is common to prepare product advertisements exclusively for each company for each company and distribute them inside each company It is a target. This is because it is necessary to keep transaction conditions presented to a certain company secret from employees of other companies. For this reason, occupational area sales have required a lot of labor and time to print and distribute advertisements.

On the other hand, as a means for providing a product advertisement or the like to consumers, there is a product information providing system using the Internet. As an example of such a system, there is, for example, a "method and system for distributing information over a communication network" disclosed in JP-A-2000-99579.
In this system, merchandise information of many retailers is stored in a joint database and managed by a joint server. Consumers can access the collaborative server via the Internet and request that information be sent about retailers who handle a particular product. If requested,
The joint server searches for the corresponding retailer from the joint database and provides the consumer with the merchandise information of the retailer.

[0004]

As described above, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No.
In the system disclosed in JP-A-000-99579,
Retailer merchandise information is transmitted to consumers without spending effort and time in the complicated procedures of printing and distributing advertisements. Therefore, it would be convenient if such a system could be used for workplace sales.

However, in the system disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2000-99579, product information is provided to all consumers who access the joint server regardless of the company to which the consumer belongs. Therefore, if this system is used for sales in the work area, there is a problem that the transaction conditions determined for each company cannot be confidentially handled by employees of other companies.

[0006] In order to solve the above problem, for example, each time a consumer accesses the server, the joint server authenticates the company to which the consumer belongs, and only when the authentication is successful, provides a transaction condition exclusive to the company. Can be considered. However, in order to perform authentication, there is a problem that the burden on the joint server increases, such as the necessity of preparing and managing a large database on each consumer and its affiliated company on the joint server side.

Accordingly, an object of the present invention is to provide a selling system, a selling method, and a selling device which can solve the above-mentioned problems. This object is achieved by a combination of features described in the independent claims. The dependent claims define further advantageous embodiments of the present invention.

[0008]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sales system for selling products to members of a plurality of organizations in accordance with predetermined transaction conditions. This sales system is provided for each of a plurality of groups, and is connected to a plurality of group-dedicated networks that can transmit transaction conditions without being leaked to the outside of the group, and is communicatively connected to a plurality of group-dedicated networks. On the other hand, a transaction condition distribution unit that distributes exclusive transaction conditions to the corresponding organization, and provided in a network dedicated to each group, and uses the transaction conditions distributed from the transaction condition distribution unit to members of the corresponding organization A plurality of store departments for selling products.

[0009] The transaction condition distribution unit is managed by a company that sells its own merchandise, and when a store unit requests distribution of transaction conditions relating to its own merchandise, an organization corresponding to the store unit uses the distribution request. It is preferable to specify the transaction conditions and distribute the exclusive transaction conditions to the specified organization.

[0010] The sales system may further include a distribution restricting unit that excludes, from the transaction conditions distributed by the transaction condition distribution unit to the group-dedicated network, transaction conditions relating to products that are prohibited from being sold in the group corresponding to the group-dedicated network. It may be further provided.

[0011] The sales system may further include a transaction condition restricting unit that excludes, from the transaction conditions used by the store unit for sale, transaction conditions relating to commodities prohibited from being sold by the group.

[0012] Further, the sales system holds personnel information relating to members, a personnel information holding unit managed by an organization, a unique information receiving unit that receives unique information of a purchaser of a product, and a personnel information storage unit. An authentication unit that authenticates that the purchaser is a member of the organization by referring to the information holding unit, and a determination unit that determines whether or not the product can be sold to the purchaser based on the authentication result. May be provided.

[0013] Further, the above-mentioned sales system holds personnel information relating to a member, and a personnel information holding unit managed by an organization; a unique information receiving unit which receives unique information of a member who desires to purchase a product; An order-related information acquisition unit that obtains the order-related information necessary for ordering products from the personnel information holding unit using information, and an order-related information that is dedicated to an organization so that members can order the desired products. An order-related information transmitting unit that transmits the information to the outside of the network may be further provided.

[0014] The order-related information is preferably information on a destination of the product. Further, it is preferable that the order-related information is information on the contact information of the member. Further, the unique information is preferably identification information used for identifying a member in the organization.

Further, the above sales system holds personnel information relating to a member, and a personnel information holding unit managed by an organization, and contact information for acquiring contact information of the member in the group from the personnel information holding unit. An acquisition unit may be further provided.

Further, the sales system may include a contact information holding unit for holding contact information, and an information reflecting unit for periodically reflecting the information of the personnel information holding unit in the contact information holding unit. . Further, the sales system may include a recording unit that records the sales performance of each store unit.

According to the second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sales method for selling goods to members of a plurality of organizations according to predetermined transaction conditions. This sales method is a group-dedicated network provided for each group, a step of distributing the transaction conditions dedicated to the corresponding group to each of the group-dedicated networks that can transmit the transaction conditions without leaking to the outside, Selling the goods in the group-dedicated network using the distributed transaction conditions.

[0018] In addition, the selling method includes a step of authenticating that the purchaser is a member of the group by using unique information of the person who wants to purchase the product and personnel information on the member managed by the group. Deciding whether to sell the product to the purchaser based on the result of the authentication.

[0019] The selling method may further include a step of acquiring information that can be used when providing a product to the affiliated member from personnel information on the affiliated member managed by the organization, and transmitting the acquired information to a product provider. Good. Further, the selling method may include a step of acquiring contact information in the organization of the member from the personnel information on the member managed by the organization.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sales apparatus for selling a product to a member of an organization provided with a personnel information holding device for holding personnel information on the member. The selling device includes a unique information receiving unit that receives unique information of a purchaser of a product, and an authentication unit that authenticates that the purchaser is a member of an organization by referencing the unique information to a personnel information holding device. And, based on the result of the authentication,
A determination unit for determining whether or not to sell the product to a purchase applicant.

[0021] The above-mentioned vending apparatus uses the unique information received by the unique information receiving unit to obtain order-related information required for ordering a product from the personnel information holding device. An order-related information transmitting unit that transmits order-related information in order to order a product desired by the applicant may be further provided. In addition, the selling device may further include a contact information acquisition unit that acquires contact information of the purchase applicant group from the personnel information holding device.

According to the fourth aspect of the present invention, there is provided a sales system for selling products to members of a plurality of organizations according to predetermined transaction conditions. This sales system is
Provided for each of a plurality of organizations, a plurality of networks dedicated to groups that can transmit transaction conditions without flowing out of the group, and a plurality of networks that are provided at least one on each network dedicated to each group and that can receive transaction conditions A transaction condition receiving unit, a transaction condition distribution unit communicably connected to a plurality of group-dedicated networks, and capable of distributing exclusive transaction conditions to a designated group to a designated transaction condition receiving unit; A distribution request proxy unit that specifies a group corresponding to the member and a transaction condition receiving unit corresponding to the member and requests the transaction condition distribution unit to distribute the transaction condition.

The above summary of the present invention does not list all of the necessary features of the present invention, and sub-combinations of these features may also be included in the present invention.

[0024]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, the present invention will be described through embodiments of the present invention. However, the following embodiments do not limit the claimed invention and have the features described in the embodiments. Not all combinations are essential to the solution of the invention.

(First Embodiment) First, a first embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. Figure 1
FIG. 1 shows an outline of the first embodiment of the present invention. First of the present invention
The embodiment is a sales system that sells merchandise to employees of two or more companies using transaction conditions defined for each company. Here, the company is an example of an organization. An employee is an example of a member of an organization. The group refers to a group gathered for a certain purpose irrespective of profit or non-profit, and includes, for example, a company, a co-op, a medical association, and an alumni association of a university. In addition, a product refers to a product that is widely sold, and includes not only goods but also services. Therefore, financial products, insurance products, cleaning services, transportation services, and the like are also included in the products of the present embodiment.

In the sales system of this embodiment, 1 or 2
The above-mentioned supplier computers 500a, b (hereinafter collectively referred to as "computer 500"), two or more in-house LANs 200a, b, c and the service center server 100 are communicably connected via the Internet 400. I have.

A supplier is a company that sells commodities. The traders include, for example, manufacturers, wholesalers, retailers, trading companies, and the like. The supplier uses the computer 500 to provide merchandise information on the merchandise to be sold to the sales system. The provided product information includes (1) a number for identifying the supplier (hereinafter referred to as “supplier ID”) (2) sales product information on the product to be sold (3) transaction conditions of the product to be sold (4) sales product Information and information on the distribution destination of transaction conditions (hereinafter referred to as “distribution destination information”). The sale item information includes at least the name of the sale item, and may further include a text and an image explaining the content of the sale item. The transaction conditions include at least the price of a product specified exclusively for each company that is the distribution destination, and may also include the delivery date of the product. The product information is prepared for each product and each distribution destination. Therefore, even for the same product, separate product information is prepared for each distribution destination.

The server 100 of the service center distributes the product information of the supplier to the company designated by the supplier. More specifically, the service center server 10
0 distributes the product information to the company LAN of the company specified by the distribution destination information.

The in-house LANs 200a, 200b and 200c are company-dedicated networks provided separately for different companies A, B and C, respectively. Each in-house LAN 200a, b, c
(Hereinafter, collectively referred to as “in-house LAN 200”), personnel information servers 210a, b, c (hereinafter, collectively referred to as “personnel information server 210”) and store servers 300a, b, c.
(Hereinafter, generically referred to as “store server 300”), and firewall servers 220a, b, c (hereinafter, generically referred to as “firewall server 220”).

The personnel information server 210 is a server used by a company to hold and manage personnel information of employees. The store server 300 performs a sales process of a product provided by a supplier to an employee. The store server 300 receives the distribution of the product information from the service center server 100, and provides the product information to the employee's computer via the in-house LAN 200. In addition, the store server 300 is a company L
An order is received from the employee's computer via AN200. The shop server 300 that has received the order creates order information. Further, the store server 300 transmits the created order information to the service center server 100.

The firewall server 220 controls the in-house LAN 20 so that confidential information in the company does not leak to the outside.
0 manages communication with the outside. In particular, the firewall server 220 of the present embodiment is configured so that the product information distributed from the service center server 100 is
Manage communications so that they do not leak to the outside. Therefore, for example, the employee of the company B cannot acquire the products handled by the store server 220 of the company A and the transaction conditions thereof. Thereby, in each in-house LAN 200,
Product information can be handled confidentially outside the company.

As shown in FIG. 1, in the present embodiment, first, the supplier transmits the product information (A, B, C) to be distributed to each company to the service center server 100 (A). The service center server 100 classifies the product information for each distribution destination and distributes each to the store server 300 of the designated company (b). Store server 300
Provides the distributed product information to the employee via the in-house LAN 200 and accepts an order for the product. If there is an order, the store server 300 creates order information and transmits it to the service center server 100 (c). Further, the service center server 100 transmits the order information to the supplier (d). The supplier 500 prepares a product based on the received order information,
The product is delivered to the destination specified in the order information.

FIG. 2 is a functional block diagram of the service center server 100. Service center server 100
Has a product information database 118, a distribution information file 120, an order information database 122, and an order file 124.

The product information database 118 is a database that stores product information that the supplier wants to distribute. The merchandise information database 118 holds (1) merchandise identification number (hereinafter referred to as “merchandise ID”), (2) sales merchandise information, (3) distribution destination information, and (4) transaction conditions in association with each merchandise information. .

The distribution information file 120 is stored in the store server 3
00 is a file that holds information to be distributed to 00. The distribution information file 120 is prepared for each store server 300, and holds only information to be distributed to the corresponding store server 300. Each distribution information file 120 holds (1) merchandise ID, (2) sales item information, and (3) transaction conditions in association with each other.

The order information database 122 is a database that holds the order information transmitted from each store server 300. The order information database 122 holds (1) the product ID of the ordered product, (2) the ordered quantity, (3) the name of the orderer, and (4) the delivery address of the ordered product in association with each other.

The order file 124 is a file holding information to be sent to a supplier for ordering a product. The order file 124 is prepared for each supplier and holds only information to be delivered to the corresponding supplier. Each order file 124 holds (1) the ID of the product to be ordered, (2) the quantity to be ordered, (3) the name of the orderer, and (4) the delivery address of the product in association with each other.

The service center server 100 receives the product information from the supplier in addition to the database and the like, and distributes the information to the store server 300.
02 and an order processing unit 1 which receives order information of a product from each store server 300 and distributes the information to a supplier.
And 10. The information distribution processing unit 102 includes a product information receiving unit 104 that receives product information from a supplier,
Delivery information file preparation unit 1 that prepares a delivery information file
06 and an information distribution unit 108 that distributes the contents of the distribution information file.

The product information receiving unit 104 receives product information from the supplier computer 500 and assigns product IDs in the order in which the product information is received. The product ID is composed of a combination of the reception order and the supplier ID so that the supplier who provided the product information can be identified. For example,
If the 31st received product information is product information provided by a supplier with a supplier ID of 34, a product ID of 031/34 is assigned. Product ID
, The product information receiving unit 104 associates the product ID with the product information and associates the product ID with the product information.
Write to 8. In addition, the product information receiving unit 104 stores the product I
D is notified to the supplier computer 500. This is in order to be able to place an order for a product to a supplier using the product ID.

The distribution information file preparing unit 106 classifies the product information held in the product information database 118 based on the distribution destination information. The distribution information file preparing unit 106 stores the distribution information file 12 corresponding to the product ID, sales information, and transaction conditions of the classified product information.
Write 0 in association with each other. The above processing is performed periodically. In the case of the present embodiment, the distribution information file preparing unit 106 performs the above-described processing once a day, for example, in the store server 30.
0 is performed before starting the product sales process.

The information distribution unit 108 distributes each distribution information file 120 to the store server 300 of the company specified by the distribution destination information. The information distribution unit 108 distributes the distribution information file 120 every time the distribution information file preparation unit 106 performs the above-described processing. The order processing unit 110
An order information receiving unit 112 that receives order information, an order file preparing unit 114 that prepares an order file, and an order file distribution unit 1 that distributes an order file to a supplier.
16. The order information receiving unit 112
The order information from the store server 300 is received, and the order information is written in the order information database in the order in which the order information is received.

The order file preparing unit 114 classifies the order information stored in the order information database 122 according to the supplier to whom the order information is transmitted. The order information is classified based on the product ID included in the order information. The contents of the classified order information are written to the corresponding order file 124. The above processing is performed periodically, for example, after the business hours of one day of the store server 300 end. The order file distribution unit 116 distributes each order file 124 to the computer 500 of the corresponding supplier. The transmission of the order file 24 is performed after the order file preparing unit 114 classifies the order information and saves it in the order file 124.

FIG. 3 shows an example of the contents of the product information database 118. In the illustrated example, the product ID is 011/34
And the product information of 012/34 have an identification number of 34
Watches provided by suppliers. Product ID
The product information of 011/34 is product information to be distributed to Company A, and its transaction conditions, that is, the price of a wristwatch specified exclusively for Company A is 12,000 yen. on the other hand,
The product information of the product ID012 / 34 is product information to be distributed to the company B, and the transaction condition thereof, that is, the price specified exclusively for the company B is 44,000 yen. Also,
In FIG. 3, there is no product information on the wristwatch to be delivered to Company C. As described above, in the present embodiment, even for the same product, exclusive transaction conditions are set for each distribution destination. Further, the supplier can arbitrarily set which company to distribute the product information to.

FIG. 4 shows an example of the distribution information file 120 created based on the contents of the product information database 118 shown in FIG. (A) in the figure is a distribution information file to be distributed to Company A. Also, (b) and (c) in the figure are distribution information files to be distributed to Company B and Company C, respectively. In the distribution information file of FIG. 4A, among the product information stored in the product information database 118, product IDs 011/34, 0 for which company A is specified in the distribution destination information.
21/65 and 031/34 sales item information and transaction conditions are stored. The same applies to FIGS. 4B and 4C, and a description thereof will be omitted.

FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of the personnel information server 210. The personnel information server 210 is a server managed by, for example, a personnel department of a company. The personnel information server 210 has an employee information extracting unit 212 and a personnel information database 214.

The personnel information database 214 is a database in which personnel information relating to employees is registered, and the contents of which are appropriately updated according to the transfer of the employees. The registered personnel information includes at least (1) employee number, (2) employee name, (3) employee address, and home phone number.

The employee information extraction unit 212
Accepts employee numbers from 0. Further, the employee information extracting unit 212 extracts the name and address associated with the inquired employee number from the personnel information database 214 and transmits the extracted name and address to the store server 300. Employee information extraction unit 21
2 notifies the store server 300 that the information corresponding to the inquired employee number is not in the personnel information database 214.

FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram of the store server 300. The store server 300 includes a distribution information receiving unit 302
, Sales restriction unit 304, distribution information database 306
And

The distribution information database 306 is a database in which the contents of the distribution information file distributed from the service center server 100 are stored. In the distribution information database 306, (1) merchandise ID, (2) sales item information, (3) transaction conditions, and (4) distribution flag are stored in association with each other. The distribution flag indicates whether or not the sales item information and transaction conditions associated with the flag can be distributed to the in-house LAN. In the present embodiment, if the distribution flag is “1”, distribution of sales item information and transaction conditions is permitted, and if it is “0”, distribution is not permitted. The distribution flag is set to “1” by default.

[0050] Distribution information receiving section 302 receives distribution information distributed from service center server 100.
Further, the distribution information receiving unit 302 writes the distribution information in the distribution information database 306 in the order of distribution.

The sales restricting unit 304 excludes, from the distribution information to be distributed to the in-house LAN 200, items related to products for which sales are prohibited by the company. Specifically, sales restriction section 3
Reference numeral 04 extracts the distribution information stored in the distribution information database 306 and displays the content on a display means (not shown) such as a CRT. In addition, the sales restricting unit 304 receives information about whether or not the displayed product should be excluded from the sales target from an input unit (not shown) such as a keyboard. If it is input that the displayed product should be excluded from the sales target, the sales restricting unit 304 sets the corresponding distribution flag to “0”, thereby setting the relevant sales item information and transaction conditions to the in-house LAN 200 Clarify that you must not distribute to. Note that the sales restriction unit 304 may be configured to previously register a product whose sale is prohibited, automatically access the distribution information database, and set a related distribution flag to “0”.

The store server 300 has a sales processing unit 308 in addition to the above. The sales processing unit 308 uses the in-house LAN 3
By communicating with the employee's computer via 00,
Distribute distribution information to employees and receive product orders from employees. The sales processing unit 308 includes a distribution information transmission unit 310,
It comprises an employee order receiving section 312, an order information transmitting section 314, and an employee information obtaining section 316.

Distribution information transmitting section 310 transmits distribution information database 306 in response to a request from an employee's computer.
Are distributed to the employee's computer among the distribution information stored in the computer in which the distribution flag is set to “1”.
As a result, the employee can know the content, the product ID, and the price of the product to be sold on the computer screen.

The employee order receiving section 312 receives order information from employees. The order information includes (1) the product ID of the product to be ordered, (2) the quantity of the product to be ordered, and (3) the employee number of the orderer. Here, the employee number is an example of identification information used to identify an employee in the company. Therefore, information other than the employee number such as a name, a home phone number, a home address, and a company phone number may be used as long as the information can identify the employee in the company. The order receiving unit 312 sends the received order information to the employee information obtaining unit 314.

The employee information acquisition unit 314 extracts an employee number from the sent order information. Further, the employee information acquisition unit 314 queries the personnel number server 210 for the employee number,
Request the name and address stored in association with the employee number. The reason for requesting the name and address is that these must be included in the ordering information as the destination information of the ordered product. When the personnel information server 210 returns the name and address, the employee information acquisition unit 314 replaces the employee number of the order information with the returned name and address, and then transmits the order information to the order information transmission unit 316. Send to Therefore, the order information sent to the order information transmission unit 316 is composed of (1) the product ID of the product to be ordered, (2) the quantity of the product to be ordered, (3) the name of the orderer, and (4) the address of the orderer. . On the other hand, when a notification that there is no corresponding name / address is returned from the personnel information server 210, the employee information acquisition unit 314 determines that an unauthorized order has been placed by an employee other than the employee, and stops the process. The order information transmission unit 316 transmits the order information sent from the employee information acquisition unit 316 to the service center server 100.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the service center server 100 is connected to the plurality of store servers 30.
0, the product information for selling the product is distributed. Each store server 300 is provided on an in-house LAN 200 having a firewall server 220. The firewall server 220 manages communication between the in-house LAN 200 and the outside so that product information handled by the store server 300 does not leak out of the in-house LAN 200. Therefore, in the present embodiment, the product information handled by the store server 300 of a certain company is not known to employees of another company. As a result,
The service center server 100 can secretly distribute, for example, product information in which different prices are set for the same product to the store servers 300 of the respective companies.

In other words, the present embodiment makes it possible to effectively use existing equipment called an in-house LAN constructed as a so-called closed network, and inform other companies of the transaction conditions determined for each company. Is delivered without. Further, in this embodiment, the name and address of the employee who ordered the product are acquired from the personnel information server 210 using the employee number, and are used as the name and address of the delivery destination of the ordered product. Therefore, employees only need to provide their employee number when ordering products,
It is not necessary to perform a complicated operation of inputting a delivery address of a product to a computer every time a product is ordered.

(Second Embodiment) Next, a sales system according to a second embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings and the like. In the following description, portions denoted by the same reference numerals as those used in the first embodiment have the same functions, and description thereof will be omitted.

This embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that the store server 300 has a function of registering an employee who uses the present sales system as a member, and permits only registered employees to sell products. . In the present embodiment, the personnel information registered in the personnel information database includes at least (1) an employee number, (2) an employee's name, (3) an employee's department, an in-house telephone number, and an in-house e-mai.
It differs from the first embodiment in that it includes 1 address.

FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram of the store server 320 of the present embodiment. The store server 320 differs from the store server 300 of the first embodiment in having a member information database 332 and a member registration unit 322 for registering an employee who wants to use the sales system as a member in the member information database 332. Also, the store server 320
Is different from the first embodiment in that the sales processing unit 308 has a member order receiving unit 334 instead of the employee order receiving unit 312 and a member information obtaining unit 336 instead of the employee information obtaining unit.

The member information database 334 is a database that holds information on members. The member information database 334 includes (1) a member ID which is a member identification number, (2) a member's employee number, (3) a member's name, (4) a department to which the member belongs, (5) a member's internal telephone number, and (6) ) Member's internal e-mail address (7) Commodity delivery address is stored in association with each other.

[0062] The member registration section 322 stores the member who wishes to use the present sales system as a member in the member information database 3.
Register at 34. The member registration unit 322 is connected to the in-house LAN 20
Necessary information is transmitted / received to / from a person who wishes to register as a member (hereinafter, referred to as a “registration applicant”) via a computer connected to “0”, and processing for member registration is performed. The member registration unit 322 has an employee authentication unit 324 that authenticates that the registration applicant is an employee of the company, and a destination information reception unit 326 that receives information on the destination of the product from the registration applicant. In addition, the member registration unit 322
It has a registration unit 328 for registering information on the applicant for registration in the member information database, and a contact information update unit 330 for updating information on the member's internal contact information among the information held in the member information database 118.

When registering a member, the employee authentication unit 324 notifies the personnel number server 210 of the employee number of the person who wants to register as a member, and requests information on the internal contact information of the employee corresponding to the employee number. . In the present embodiment, the information on the company contact information includes, for example, “name”, “department”, “company telephone number”, and “company e-mail address”. The member registration unit 322 stores the personnel information server 2
When the requested information is returned from 10, the registration applicant is authenticated as an employee. And the employee authentication unit 324
Registration department 3 with the received internal contact information along with the employee number
Send to 28. On the other hand, if the requested information is not returned, the member registration unit 322 determines that the applicant for registration is not an employee, and rejects the registration of the applicant for membership.

The destination information receiving unit 326 is the employee authentication unit 3
The registration requester who has been authenticated as an employee by the requester 24 requests information on the destination of the product. In the present embodiment, the destination information of the product is an address arbitrarily designated by the registration applicant. Upon receiving the destination information from the registration applicant, the destination information receiving unit 326 receives it and sends it to the registration unit 328.

The registration unit 328 receives the employee number and the company contact information from the employee authentication unit 324, and the destination of the product from the destination information receiving unit 328. The registration unit 328 prepares a new member number, and writes the received information and the member number in the member information database 332 in association with each other. Further, the registration unit 328 notifies the registered applicant number of the registered member number.

The contact information updating unit 330 notifies the personnel number server 210 of the employee number stored in the member information database 332, and requests the internal contact information of the employee corresponding to the employee number. When the internal contact information is transmitted from the personnel information server 210, the contact information updating unit 330
Is a member information database 3 using the transmitted information.
32 is updated. The contact information updating unit 330 performs the above processing periodically, and always reflects the information of the personnel information server 210 in the member information database 332. Therefore, even if the member's department or the like is changed due to transfer, for example, the correct in-house contact information is always stored in the member information database 332.

The member order receiving unit 334 of the sales processing unit 308 receives order information from members. The order information received by the member order receiving unit 312 includes (1) the product ID of the product to be ordered, (2) the quantity of the product to be ordered, and (3) the member number of the orderer. The member order receiving unit 334 sends the received order information to the member information obtaining unit 336.

The member information obtaining section 336 searches the member information database 332 using the member number included in the order information as a search key. As a result of the search, when the same member number is detected, the member information acquisition unit 336 extracts the name of the member corresponding to the member number and the delivery address of the product.
Further, the member information obtaining unit 336 transmits the order information to the order information transmitting unit 314 after replacing the order information with the extracted name and address. Therefore, the order information sent to the order information transmitting unit 316 is composed of (1) the product ID of the product to be ordered, (2) the quantity of the product to be ordered, (3) the name of the member who ordered, and (4) the delivery address of the product. I have. On the other hand, if the same member number is not detected as a result of the search, the member information acquisition unit 336 sets
Judge that an unauthorized order has been placed by a member other than the member, and cancel the processing.

As described above, the member registration unit 322 refers to the personnel information server 210 for the employee number, thereby certifying that the applicant for member registration is an employee.
Therefore, no one other than the employee is registered. Further, the sales processing unit 308 stores the member information database 33
The order information is created and transmitted only when the person who has presented the member number registered in 2 places an order. Therefore, the sale of products to non-employees is reliably prevented.

In this embodiment, when registering a member,
The member's internal contact information is also registered in the member information database 332. Therefore, in the present embodiment, a member in a company can be contacted when it becomes necessary to order or deliver a product. Moreover, in the present embodiment, the information of the personnel information server 210 is regularly reflected in the member information database 332. Therefore, even if a member is transferred or transferred within the company, and the internal contact information is changed, the member can be reliably contacted.

(Third Embodiment) Next, a third embodiment of the present invention will be described. This embodiment is mainly characterized in that the service center server collects statistics on the sales performance of products in each store server based on order information stored in the order information database and distributes the result to the supplier. Different from the first embodiment.

It is important for a supplier to know what products are ordered and to what extent from each company in determining the products to be provided and the transaction conditions of the products. Therefore, in the present embodiment, by obtaining statistics on the sales performance of each store server, information on the products ordered from each company and the order quantity is obtained,
Provide the obtained information to each supplier.

FIG. 8 is a functional block diagram of the service center server 130 according to the present embodiment. The service center server 130 of the present embodiment stores the statistical information file 1
36, statistical information creation unit 134, and statistical information distribution unit 13
2 is different from the service center server 100 of the first embodiment.

The statistical information file 136 is a file for storing the results of statistics of order information stored in the order information database 122 for each company to which the orderer belongs and for each ordered product. FIG. 9 shows an example of the statistical information file 136. As illustrated, the statistical information file 136 includes a company name, a product ID, a product name, and an order quantity. In the column of company name, the names of all companies subscribing to the sales system of the present embodiment are registered in advance. In the column of the product ID, the product ID of the product information distributed to each company is registered in advance. In the column of product name, the name of the product related to the product information corresponding to the product ID is registered in advance. The order quantity is the quantity for which the corresponding product has been ordered, and the initial value in this column is set to “0”.

Returning to FIG. 8, the statistical information creating unit 134
The order information stored in the order information database 122 is periodically counted. More specifically, the statistical information creation unit 134 reads out the product information stored in the order information database 122, and specifies the product ID and the order quantity. Next, the statistical information creating unit 134 accesses the statistical information file 136, and adds the specified order quantity to a place corresponding to the specified product ID in the order quantity column. The statistical information creating unit 134 performs the above processing on the entire order information database 122 or on a predetermined range. As a result, the statistical information on the order quantity for each company and each product is recorded in the statistical information file 136.

The statistical information distribution unit 132 reads out the company name, the product name, and the order quantity from the statistical information file after the statistical information creating unit 134 completes the above processing, and joins them to the sales system of the present embodiment. Distribution to the computer 500 of the supplier. Thereby, each supplier can know the quantity of the goods ordered for each company.

(Fourth Embodiment) Next, a fourth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In the present embodiment, the store server
The third embodiment is different from the first embodiment in that the transmission and reception of the product information and the order information can be performed directly with a vendor that sells the product.

FIG. 10 shows an outline of the present embodiment. In the present embodiment, each store server 350 communicates with one or more dealer (X, Y) dealer servers 600a and 600b via the Internet 400. Each trader server 60
Reference numerals 0a and 0b each have a web page dedicated to each company (hereinafter, referred to as “dedicated web page”). The dedicated web page includes information on products to be sold to the corresponding company and transaction conditions. For example, the store server 350a provided on the company LAN of company A is
When the company server 600a is accessed, the company server 6
00a displays a web page dedicated to company A on the store server 350.
Send to a. The store server 350a causes the employee of the company A to browse the transmitted web page. The store server 350a receives an order from an employee of the company A. When there is an order, the store server 350a creates order information and transmits it to the trader server 600a for trader X.
The trader X prepares a product according to the order information and delivers it to the orderer.

FIG. 11 shows a store server 3 according to this embodiment.
FIG. 50 shows a functional block diagram of Fifty. The store server 350 according to the present embodiment has a trader file 352 that stores a trader name of a trader who subscribes to the sales system of the present embodiment and communication destination information of the trader in association with each other. In addition, the store server 350 has a trader transaction unit 354 that performs transaction processing with the trader server 600.

The trader transaction unit 354 is a trader designation receiving unit 35
6. Dedicated web page acquisition section 358, trader order reception section 3
60, an employee information acquisition unit 362, and a vendor ordering unit 364.

[0099] The trader designation receiving section 356 transmits the trader name held in the trader file to the computer of the employee connected to the in-house LAN 200, and causes the employee to specify the trader who wants to view the dedicated web page. When the employee specifies a trader, the trader designation receiving unit 356 extracts the communication destination information of the specified trader from the trader file and notifies the dedicated web page acquisition unit 358 of the extracted information.

The dedicated web page acquisition section 358 uses the communication destination information notified from the trader designation receiving section 356 to
Communication is established with the trader server 600 of the trader designated by the employee. When the communication is established, the dedicated web page acquisition unit 358
Transmits information for identifying the company in which the store server 350 is installed (hereinafter, referred to as “company identification information”) to the agent server 600, and requests transmission of a dedicated web page. As the company identification information, for example, an identification code of a company which has been negotiated between the present sales system and the trader can be used. Further, a dedicated web page acquisition unit 35
8 receives the dedicated web page transmitted by the trader server 600 in response to the above request, and sends it to the trader order receiving unit 360.

[0102] The trader order receiving section 360 transfers the dedicated web page received from the dedicated web page acquiring section 358 to the computer of the employee. As a result, the employee can browse the dedicated web page and know the products and the transaction conditions thereof. Further, the trader order receiving section 360 receives the order information related to the sent dedicated web page. The received order information includes (1) the employee number of the employee who placed the order, (2) information for identifying the product to be ordered, and (3) the quantity of the product to be ordered. The trader order receiving unit 360 sends the received order information to the employee information obtaining unit 362.

The employee information acquisition unit 362 acquires the name and address corresponding to the employee number by referring to the personnel information server 210 for the employee number included in the order information. The employee information acquisition unit 362 adds the acquired name and address to the order information, and adds the order information to the supplier ordering unit 36.
Send to 4. The contractor ordering unit 364 includes an employee information acquiring unit 362.
Is transmitted to the corresponding trader server 600.

FIG. 12 is a functional block diagram of the agent server 600. The trader server 600 has a dedicated web page transmitting unit 602, an order receiving unit 604, and a plurality of dedicated web pages 606, each dedicated to a different company.

[0086] Dedicated web page transmission section 602 receives a request for transmission of a dedicated web page from shop server 350 and company identification information. Further, the dedicated web page transmitting unit 602 acquires a dedicated web page 606 corresponding to the company specified by the company identification information. further,
The dedicated web page transmission unit 602 returns the obtained dedicated web page 606 to the store server 350.

[0102] The order receiving unit 602 receives order information from the store server 300. The order receiving unit 602 outputs the received order information to, for example, a display (not shown) or a printing machine (not shown). This allows the trader to prepare the goods based on the displayed or printed order information and deliver the goods to the orderer.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the employee and the trader server 600 exchange information on product sales via the shop server 350 that transmits company identification information and requests distribution of a web page. Since the company server 600 receives the company identification information, the company server 600 can specify the company to which the employee belongs and return a corresponding dedicated web page. As a result, the trader can sell the product based on the transaction conditions specified for the company, which are posted on the dedicated web page.

(Fifth Embodiment) Next, a fifth embodiment of the present invention will be described. In this embodiment, the store server notifies the address of the employee's computer to the dealer server, and the dealer server displays the dedicated web page instead of the store server.
It differs from the fourth embodiment mainly in that it is directly transmitted to the computer of the notified address.

FIG. 13 shows the concept of this embodiment. In the present embodiment, first, an employee requests the store server 350 to browse a dedicated web page from a computer on the in-house LAN 200 (a). Upon receiving the browsing request, the store server 350 authenticates whether the person who made the browsing request is an employee using the personnel information server 210 (b). If the authentication is successful, the store server 350 transmits the company identification information and the address of the employee's computer to the agent server 600, and requests that the dedicated web page be transmitted (c). In response to the request, the trader server 600 transmits a dedicated web page to the sent computer address (d). That is, in the present embodiment, the dedicated web page from the trader server 600 is
Is sent directly to the employee's computer without going through. As a result, the employee can browse the dedicated web page. Also, the employee uses the dedicated web page being browsed to store the server 35 in the same manner as when accessing a general web page via the Internet.
Product orders can be made directly to the trader server 600 without going through (0).

FIG. 14 is a functional block diagram of the store server used in the present embodiment. In the store server 350 according to the present embodiment, the configuration of the dealer transaction unit 370 is different from the dealer transaction unit according to the fourth embodiment. The trader transaction section 370 includes a trader designation receiving section 372, an employee authentication section 374, and a dedicated web page distribution request section 376.

[0092] The trader designation receiving unit 372 transmits the trader name held in the trader file 352 to the computer of the employee connected to the in-house LAN 200, and causes the employee to specify the trader who wants to view the dedicated web page. When the employee designates a trader, the trader designation receiving section 372 extracts the communication destination information of the designated trader from the trader file and sends it to the dedicated web page distribution request section 376. Further, the supplier designation receiving unit 372 acquires the address of the computer used by the employee, and transmits this to the dedicated web page distribution requesting unit 376. In addition, the supplier designation receiving unit 372
Receives the employee number of the employee and sends it to the employee authentication unit 374.

The employee authentication unit 374 authenticates whether or not the person who has requested browsing of the dedicated web page is an employee. The employee authentication unit 374 transmits the employee number sent from the supplier designation receiving unit 372 to the personnel information server 210, and inquires of the personnel information server 210 whether the employee number exists.
As a result, when there is a notification from the personnel information server 210 that the number corresponding to the employee number exists in the personnel information database, the employee authentication unit 374 sends the dedicated web page distribution request unit 376 the information of the dedicated web page. Give instructions to request distribution. On the other hand, if there is a notification from the personnel information server 210 that the corresponding employee number does not exist in the personnel information database, the employee authentication unit 374 sets
The process ends without giving an instruction to the dedicated web page distribution requesting unit 376 to request distribution. This allows the trader 370 to respond to requests from persons other than employees.
However, it is possible to prevent the user from making a distribution request for the dedicated web page.

Upon receiving an instruction from the employee authentication section 374 to request the delivery of the dedicated web page, the dedicated web page distribution request section 376 uses the communication destination information of the trader transmitted from the trader designation receiving section 372. To establish communication with the trader server 600. When the communication is established, the dedicated web page distribution request unit 376 transmits the company identification information and the computer address of the employee to the agent server 600, and requests transmission of the dedicated web page.

As described above, in the present embodiment, the store server 3
50 transmits not only the company identification information but also the computer address of the employee to the agent server 600. For this,
The agent server 600 sends a dedicated web page for the company to which the employee belongs to directly to the employee's computer,
You can do business directly with the employee.

In the present embodiment, the store server 350
Performs authentication that the person who has requested browsing of the dedicated web page is an employee, and sends a transmission request for the dedicated web page to the trader server 600 only when the authentication is successful.
Therefore, the trader server 600 can distribute the dedicated web page only to the employees of the specific company without confirming the affiliated company of the person making the request to view the dedicated web page.

Note that the store server 350 of the present embodiment
The member information database 332 and the member registration unit 322 described in the second embodiment may be further provided.
In this case, the employee authentication unit 374 of the store server 350 uses the member information database 332 instead of the personnel information server 210 to determine whether the person who has made a request to view the dedicated web page is an employee (member). The authentication of whether or not the authentication is successful may be performed.

Although the present invention has been described with reference to the embodiment, the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the scope described in the above embodiment. Various changes or improvements can be added to the above embodiment. It should be noted that such modified or improved embodiments may be included in the technical scope of the present invention.
It is clear from the description of the claims.

In the first embodiment described above, the service center and the supplier communicate via the Internet (for example, see (c) in FIG. 1).
Communication may be performed using a telephone, a fax, or the like. For example, the service center stores the store server 300
Alternatively, the order information received from the company may be printed for each supplier using a printer (not shown), and each print content may be transmitted by fax to the corresponding supplier.

In the first embodiment, the order information transmitted from the store server 300 to the service center server 100 includes (1) the product ID of the ordered product, (2) the ordered quantity, and (3) the orderer's Name, address, telephone number (4) Address, name, telephone number of the delivery address of the product (5) Information on the necessity of receipt (6) Information on the packaging method of the product (for example, whether or not to put a postcard) May be included. In this case, the information of (3) may be obtained by the sales processing unit 308 of the store server from the employee who is the orderer, or by inquiring the employee number of the employee to the personnel information server 210. It may be obtained from the personnel information server 210. Further, the information (4) to (6) may be acquired from the employee who is the orderer via the in-house LAN as necessary. The order information database 122 included in the service database 100 may be configured to be able to store all items of the order information.

In the first embodiment, the store server 30
Instead of including the sales restriction unit 304 in the service center 0, the service center server 100 may include a distribution information restriction unit having the same function as the sales restriction unit 304.

FIG. 15 is a functional block diagram of the service center server 140 provided with such a distribution restricting unit. As can be seen, the service center server 14
0 information distribution processing unit 102 includes a distribution information restriction unit 142. The distribution information restricting unit 142 removes, from the product information stored in the product information database, the product information on the product whose sale is prohibited by the distribution destination company. Specifically, the distribution information restricting unit 142 uses input means (not shown) such as a keyboard to input a product whose sale is prohibited,
Receive information about a company whose sale of the product is prohibited. Before the distribution information file creating unit 106 classifies the product information, the distribution information restriction unit 142 has sales item information on the input product in the product information database 118 and prohibits the sale of the product. Search the product information that specifies the company that is doing in the delivery destination information. Then, when detecting the corresponding product information, the distribution information restriction unit 142 deletes the product information. As a result, the product information of the products whose sales are prohibited by the distribution destination company is not distributed to the store server 300, and the store server 300
And the same effect as when the sales restriction unit 304 is provided.

[0103]

As is apparent from the above description, according to the present invention, a sales system and a sales system for selling goods to members of a plurality of organizations using transaction conditions specified exclusively for the corresponding organizations. A method and vending device can be provided.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an outline of a sales system according to a first embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a service center server 100 according to the first embodiment;
3 is a functional block diagram of FIG.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of the contents of a product information database 118;

FIG. 4 is a diagram showing an example of a distribution information file 120 created based on the contents of a product information database 118 shown in FIG.

FIG. 5 is a functional block diagram of a personnel information server 210 according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a functional block diagram of a store server 300 according to the first embodiment.

FIG. 7 is a functional block diagram of a store server 320 according to the second embodiment.

FIG. 8 is a service center server 130 according to the third embodiment.
3 is a functional block diagram of FIG.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating an example of a statistical information file 136.

FIG. 10 is a diagram showing an outline of a sales system according to a fourth embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 11 shows a functional block diagram of a store server 350 according to the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 12 is a functional block diagram of a company server 600 according to the fourth embodiment.

FIG. 13 is a diagram showing an outline of a fifth embodiment.

FIG. 14 is a functional block diagram illustrating a store server 350 according to the fifth embodiment.

FIG. 15 is a functional block diagram of a service center server including a distribution information restriction unit.

[Explanation of symbols]

 REFERENCE SIGNS LIST 100 service center server 102 information distribution processing section 110 order processing section 118 product information database 122 order information database 200 in-house LAN 210 personnel information server 214 personnel information database 220 firewall server 300 store server 304 sales restriction section 308 sales processing section

Claims (20)

[Claims] 1. A sales system for selling goods to members of a plurality of organizations in accordance with predetermined transaction conditions, wherein the transaction conditions are provided for each of the plurality of organizations and are not leaked out of the organizations. A plurality of group-dedicated networks that can be transmitted; a transaction condition distribution unit that is communicably connected to the plurality of group-dedicated networks and that distributes the transaction conditions dedicated to the corresponding group to each group-dedicated network; A sales network, which is provided in a dedicated network and includes a plurality of store units that sell the product using the transaction conditions distributed from the transaction condition distribution unit to members of the corresponding organization. system. 2. The transaction condition distribution unit is managed by a company that sells its own product, and uses the distribution request when the store unit requests distribution of the transaction condition regarding the product. To specify the group corresponding to the store section, and distribute the transaction conditions dedicated to the specified group. A sales system characterized by the following. 3. A distribution restricting unit that excludes, from the transaction conditions distributed by the transaction condition distribution unit to the group-dedicated network, the transaction conditions relating to the product that is prohibited from being sold in an organization corresponding to the group-dedicated network. The sales system according to claim 1, further comprising: 4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising a transaction condition restricting unit that excludes, from the transaction conditions used for the sale by the store unit, the transaction conditions relating to the product prohibited from being sold by the organization. Item 1. The sales system according to item 1. 5. Holding personnel information on the member,
A personnel information holding unit managed by the organization, a unique information receiving unit that receives unique information of a purchaser of the product, and an inquiry to the personnel information holding unit for the unique information, The authentication apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising: an authentication unit that authenticates that the user is a member of an organization; and a determination unit that determines whether the product can be sold to the purchaser based on a result of the authentication. The sales system described. 6. Holding personnel information on the member,
A personnel information holding unit managed by the organization, a unique information receiving unit that receives unique information of the member who desires to purchase the product, and a request for ordering the product using the unique information. An order-related information acquisition unit that obtains order-related information from the personnel information holding unit; and order-related information that transmits the order-related information to the outside of the group dedicated network in order to order the product desired by the member. The sales system according to claim 1, further comprising a transmission unit. 7. The sales system according to claim 6, wherein the order-related information is information on a destination of the product. 8. The sales system according to claim 6, wherein the order related information is information on contact information of the member. 9. The sales system according to claim 5, wherein the unique information is identification information used to identify the member in the organization. 10. A personnel information holding unit that holds personnel information on the member and is managed by the organization, and contact information that acquires contact information of the member in the organization from the personnel information holding unit. The sales system according to claim 1, further comprising an acquisition unit. 11. A contact information holding unit for holding the contact information, and an information reflecting unit for periodically reflecting the information of the personnel information holding unit in the contact information holding unit. The sales system according to claim 10. 12. The sales system according to claim 1, further comprising a recording unit that records sales performance of each store unit. 13. A sales method for selling goods to members of a plurality of groups according to predetermined trading conditions, wherein the network is a group-specific network provided for each of the groups, Distributing, to each of the group-dedicated networks that can be transmitted without being leaked, the corresponding transaction conditions to the corresponding group; and selling the product within the group-dedicated network using the distributed transaction conditions. A sales method comprising: 14. certifying that the purchaser is a member of the group using unique information of the person who wants to purchase the product and personnel information on the member managed by the group, The method according to claim 13, further comprising: determining whether to sell the product to the purchaser based on a result of the authentication. 15. Acquiring information that can be used when providing the product to the member from personnel information on the member managed by the organization, and transmitting the information to a provider of the product. The method according to claim 13, wherein the method comprises: 16. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of acquiring contact information of the member in the group from personnel information on the member managed by the group.
3. The selling method according to 3. 17. A selling device for selling goods to members of an organization provided with a personnel information holding device for holding personnel information relating to members, wherein a unique information receiving unit for receiving the unique information of a purchaser of the goods. And an authentication unit that authenticates that the purchaser is a member of the organization by referencing the unique information to the personnel information holding device. Based on the result of the authentication, the authentication unit A determining unit for determining whether to sell the product or not. 18. An order-related information acquisition unit that acquires order-related information required for ordering the product from the personnel information holding device by using the unique information received by the unique information reception unit; 18. The sales apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising an order-related information transmitting unit that transmits the order-related information in order to order the product desired by the purchase applicant. 19. The sales apparatus according to claim 17, further comprising: a contact information acquisition unit that acquires contact information of the purchaser in the organization from the personnel information holding device. 20. A sales system for selling goods to members of a plurality of organizations in accordance with predetermined transaction conditions, wherein the transaction conditions are provided for each of the plurality of organizations and are not leaked to the outside of the organizations. A plurality of group-dedicated networks that can be transmitted, at least one provided on each group-dedicated network, a plurality of transaction condition receiving units that can receive the transaction conditions, and are communicably connected to the plurality of group-dedicated networks. A transaction condition distribution unit capable of distributing the transaction conditions dedicated to the designated organization to the designated transaction condition receiving unit; and, on behalf of the member, the group corresponding to the member.
And a distribution request proxy unit that requests the transaction condition distribution unit to distribute the transaction conditions by designating the transaction condition reception unit corresponding to the member.