JP2002087525A - Material procurement control system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable simultaneous delivery by performing unified procurement processing control between plural ordering materials. SOLUTION: An ordering control system 100 and an order receiving system 200 are connected by a network 300. The ordering control system 100 has a request accepting means 110 for accepting a purchasing request from respective departments requiring the materials, a relating means 120 for relating mutual ordering parts, an ordering means 130 for performing ordering processing to the order receiving system 200 and an input-output device 140. The order receiving system 200 has an order receiving means 210 for accepting ordering information from the ordering control system 100 and a goods delivery means 220 for performing goods delivery processing while considering relating information. The relating means 120 adds related information to mutual these ordering numbers when there is the relation such as the delivery date, a goods delivery place, a body and a peripheral device between the plural ordering materials. The order receiving means 210 groups the materials with every related ordering number, and an unification performs order receiving processing on these.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a material procurement management system, and more particularly to a material procurement management system for performing management operations when procuring materials related to a plurality of materials.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, material procurement management is performed in units of order numbers assigned to individual orders. That is,
In ordering material, all material procurement operations such as confirmation of delivery date, exchange of quotes, and delivery processing are performed based on the order number, and management operations are performed. Also, in ordering materials, processing is performed in units of order numbers assigned to individual orders.

[0003] When a plurality of related materials are procured, such as electronic components used in an electronic device, it is desirable that the procurement process of the materials be performed collectively. However, in such a case, conventionally, no systematic approach has been taken, and the reality is that a human tactic is used exclusively for manually associating orders with each other.

[0004]

In the above-mentioned conventional material procurement management, since the procurement business process is performed in units of order numbers, it is possible to use the same supplier for the same order with the same desired delivery date. On the other hand, there is a first problem that it is complicated since management tasks such as confirmation of delivery date, exchange of quotes, and delivery processing must be performed for each order.

[0005] Further, even if order processing is performed due to the same delivery date, the simultaneous delivery of each part is not guaranteed due to the circumstances of the supplier, and one part arrives before the delivery date, and the waiting for the arrival of the other parts has to be ordered. There is a second problem that the situation that it is necessary to perform the process is likely to occur.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and a first object of the present invention is to provide a material procurement management system which unifies the procurement business processing of a plurality of related materials. It is in.

[0007] A second object of the present invention is to provide a material procurement management system that aligns the delivery times of a plurality of related materials.

[0008]

A material procurement management system according to the present invention is a material procurement management system in which an order management system (100) and an order receiving system (200) are connected via a network (300). The management system (100) includes a request receiving unit (110) for receiving a purchase request from each department requiring a material, and an association unit (12) for associating the ordered materials with the purchase request.
0) and ordering means (130) for performing order processing based on order information associated with the order receiving system. The order receiving system (200) includes an order management system (100).
Order receiving means (210) for receiving order information from the customer and delivery means (2) for performing delivery processing in consideration of the association information.
20).

The association is performed by adding tag information to an order message for each ordered article using XML, and the delivery processing taking into account the association information is performed for each order number to which the tag information is added. The order message may be grouped.

[0010]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION A material procurement management system according to the present invention is a material procurement management system in which an orderer of goods and an orderee are connected via a network. The tag information is used to display the dependencies between order information such as the delivery date and the order receiving party, and the order receiving party decodes the tag information and performs batch delivery processing of related materials.

Next, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram showing one embodiment of a material procurement management system of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1, this material procurement management system includes an order management system 100 and an order receiving system 200.
Are connected by a network 300. The order management system 100 includes a request receiving unit 110 for receiving a purchase request from each department requiring materials (here, parts as an example), an association unit 120 for associating ordered parts, and an order receiving system 200. An ordering means 130 and an input / output device 140 for performing ordering processing are provided. The order receiving system 200 includes an order management system 1
Receiving means 210 for receiving order information from 00 and delivery means 2 for performing delivery processing in consideration of association information
20.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described with reference to the drawings.

It is assumed that purchase requests from each department are gathered at the procurement department by using a network between departments or a paper form. The person in charge of the procurement section activates the present system and allocates a request number to each request by the request receiving means 110. At this time, the parts requested to be purchased in paper forms are also input / output devices 140 of the order management system 100.
Can be registered as an order request to the request receiving means 110 by using.

Next, the associating means 120 is activated, and the processed order information is associated while performing sorting by the delivery date and the like. The association is, for example, XML (eX
tensible Markup Language). FIG. 2 is an example of a screen image displayed when the association unit 120 is operated. In FIG. 2, the part with the product name AAA is 1
0, 14 parts with BBB, 20 parts with CCC
Only about to be ordered. Parts AAA and CCC
Are related parts, and the order numbers of the other party are designated as related order numbers. Here, the relation may be a physical relation between a component delivery date and a delivery place, or a component of a product such as a main body and a peripheral device in which the part is used.

Next, the ordering means 130 is started, and a part ordering process is performed with respect to the ordering party. The format of the order message flowing on the network 300 at this time contains information as shown in FIG. This order message includes, for each order number, a header a, orderer information b, orderer information c, order number d, part number e, part quantity f, related part tag g, and related part order number h. Order number d is shown in FIG.
, The related part order number h is the related number in FIG. 2, the part number e is the product name and the part quantity f in FIG.
Respectively correspond to the quantities in FIG.

The related component tag g indicates whether or not there is an order number related to the order number. In the example of FIG.
Order number A-001-001 and order number C-001
Attach the related parts tag g of -003 and order number B-001.
Do not attach the related parts tag g of -002.

When such an order message is received by the order receiving means 210 of the order receiving system 200 via the network 300, the order receiving means 210 analyzes the order message. At this time, if the related component tag g exists according to the content of the order message, it is determined that the real ordered component is associated with another ordered component.

Here, the order receiving means 210 stores that it is an order for the associated part, and performs each order receiving process. As a result, the delivery management means 220 collectively assigns a unique group number to related parts, and manages this group number so that each part can be managed in association with each other. In the example of FIG. 2, the product name AA
A unique group number is assigned to the component A and the component CCC, and another unique group number is assigned to the component BBB. The delivery management means 220 checks all the parts having the same group number, in the above example, the part having the part name AAA and the part name CC.
When the parts of C are collected, the parts delivery processing is performed.
The part with the product name BBB can be delivered only by this.

A program for causing a computer to execute the material procurement management method described above is stored in a semiconductor memory, a floppy (registered trademark) disk, or a CD-ROM.
Alternatively, the program may be recorded on a computer-readable recording medium such as a computer, and read and executed by a computer constituting the order management system and the order receiving system. These programs control the computer to function as the request receiving unit 110, the association unit 120 and the ordering unit 130, or the order receiving unit 210 and the delivery management unit 220.

[0021]

A first effect of the present invention is that the provision of a relationship between a plurality of ordered properties unifies the procurement business processing of a plurality of related materials, and collectively handles materials belonging to the same related group. This means that delivery dates can be confirmed, quotes can be exchanged, and delivery processing can be performed.

The second effect of the present invention is that it is possible to receive ordered materials together with related materials at one time, which leads to a reduction in management man-hours and a reduction in the number of previously delivered parts. This eliminates the need to store until all parts are collected, which leads to a reduction in costs such as storage processing.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a configuration diagram of an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a screen image displayed when operating an association unit in the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of an order message according to the present invention;

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 100 Order management system 110 Request accepting means 120 Relating means 130 Ordering means 140 Input / output device 200 Order receiving system 210 Order receiving means 220 Delivery management means 300 Network a Header b Ordering source information c Ordering destination information d Order number e Parts No. f Parts quantity e Related information tag h Related parts order number

Claims (6)

[Claims] In a material procurement management system in which an orderer and an orderer of goods are connected by a network, when ordering a plurality of materials at the orderer, each delivery date and order are received using tag information of an order message. A material procurement management system, which displays dependencies between order information such as destinations, and the order destination decodes the tag information and performs batch delivery processing of related materials. 2. A material procurement management system in which an order management system and an order receiving system are connected via a network, wherein the order management system includes a request receiving unit for receiving a purchase request from each department requiring the material. An ordering means for associating ordered materials according to the purchase request; and ordering means for executing an ordering process with the ordering information associated with the ordering system, wherein the ordering system receives an order from the order management system. A material procurement management system comprising: an order receiving unit that receives order information; and a delivery unit that performs a delivery process while considering the association information. 3. The material procurement management system according to claim 1, wherein the association is performed by adding tag information to an order message for each ordered item using XML. 4. The delivery process taking into account the association information is performed by grouping order messages for each order number to which the tag information has been added. Material procurement management system described in. 5. A material procurement management method in a system in which an order management system and an order receiving system are connected via a network, wherein the order management system receives a purchase request from each department that requires the material. A procedure for associating ordered materials with the purchase request, and a procedure for performing an order process based on the associated order information with respect to the order receiving system, wherein the order receiving system receives an order from the order management system. A material procurement management method, comprising: a step of receiving information; and a step of performing a delivery process in consideration of the association information. 6. A material procurement management method in a system in which an order management system and an order receiving system are connected via a network, wherein the order management system receives a purchase request from each department requiring the material. A procedure for associating ordered materials according to the purchase request, and a procedure for performing an order process on the order receiving system based on the associated order information. The order receiving system receives an order from the order management system. A computer-readable recording medium for recording a computer-executable material procurement management method having a procedure for receiving information and a procedure for performing a delivery process in consideration of the association information.