JP2002133167A - Market providing system, market providing side terminal, market providing method, and recording medium - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To easily acquire a market for a dealer possessing no market on a network, and sell the commodity only in a necessary sales area in the market. SOLUTION: In this market providing system, plural market use requesting side terminals 102, 103, 104... are connected to a market providing side terminal 101 through a network 100, and the market providing side terminal 101 has a market use publicly collecting means to collect the use of a market possessed by the market providing side terminal 101 side for the plural market use requesting terminals 102, 103, 104..., a receiving means to receive a signal indicating a desire to use the market from a specific market use requesting terminal, and a sales area receiving means to receive information as to the sales area from the specific market use requesting terminal, and the commodity of a dealer corresponding to the specific market use requesting terminal is sold through the market possessed by the market providing side terminal 101.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a sales channel providing system, a sales channel providing terminal device, a sales channel providing method, and a storage medium, and more particularly to a system in which a product provider designates a sales area and sells the product. It is.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art With the recent development of networks such as the Internet, it has become possible for users to quickly obtain various information. In addition, buying and selling of goods (such as Internet shopping) via a network is being performed on a daily basis.

[0003]

However, even if a company that intends to newly enter into sales on the network or a company that has few sales channels on the network simply posts the product on the network, However, it is rare to access the homepage and try to grasp the contents, and since there is very little information on the product, it has not been possible to purchase with confidence.

[0004] Further, it usually takes a long period of time for a product posted on a network to be known to a user and recognized as a certain sales channel. Further, even after the sales channel is recognized, it takes a long time until the market evaluation is established in order to obtain a certain level of confidence in the quality of the product and the like. For this reason, simply posting products on the network consumes a great deal of time in establishing a sales channel and evaluating the market, and there is also a problem that it is not possible to achieve the desired sales by missing the sales time. Was.

[0005] Further, since a dealer who intends to newly enter into sales on the network cannot specify the sales area of the product to be sold, the seller of the product over the network is wider than the area intended by the seller. It is assumed that sales will take place. For this reason, the merchandise seller has to ship the goods to a region that is not expected, and has to create specifications and the like in the local language.

[0006] The present invention has been made to solve such a problem, and enables a business operator who does not have a sales channel on a network to easily obtain the sales channel, and to obtain the sales channel. It is an object of the present invention to restrict a sales area in the apparatus and to prevent a complicated operation from occurring.

[0007]

A sales channel providing system according to the present invention is a sales channel providing system in which a sales channel providing terminal for providing a sales channel and a sales channel use requesting terminal for requesting use of the sales channel are connected via a network. The market providing side terminal, the market use requesting terminal, the market use recruiting means for recruiting the use of the market held by the market providing side terminal, the use of the market by the market recruiting means And receiving means for receiving from the sales channel use requesting side terminal a request to use the sales channel in response to the recruitment and receiving information on an area where the sales are desired.

[0008] In one embodiment of the sales channel providing system of the present invention, a sales channel that provides a sales channel corresponding to information on an area where sales are desired in response to a notification that the receiving means has received a request to use the sales channel. It has a providing means.

[0009] In one embodiment of the sales channel providing system according to the present invention, the sales channel providing terminal further includes a brand name receiving means for receiving a brand name used at the time of sales from the sales channel use requesting terminal.

In one embodiment of the sales channel providing system according to the present invention, the sales channel providing terminal charges a royalty to the sales channel use requesting terminal in accordance with the sales amount of the product.

[0011] In one embodiment of the sales channel providing system of the present invention, the ratio of the royalty to the sales amount is different depending on the sales area.

[0012] In one embodiment of the sales channel providing system according to the present invention, the sales channel providing terminal includes a database for recording the information on the sales, and the content of the information recorded in the database according to the sales of the product. Is to be updated.

[0013] The sales channel providing terminal device of the present invention provides a sales channel use requesting terminal connected via a network with:
It has a sales channel use recruiting unit for recruiting the use of the sales channel held therein, and a receiving unit for receiving from the terminal for requesting the use of the sales channel a notification that the use of the sales channel is desired and information regarding the desired sales area.

[0014] In one embodiment of the sales channel providing terminal device of the present invention, the sales channel corresponding to the information of the area where the sales are desired is established in response to the notification that the reception means receives the request for using the sales channel. It has a sales channel providing means to provide.

In one embodiment of the sales channel providing terminal device of the present invention, there is further provided brand name receiving means for receiving a brand name used at the time of sales from the sales channel use requesting terminal.

In one embodiment of the sales channel providing terminal device of the present invention, a royalty is charged to the sales channel use requesting terminal in accordance with the sales amount of the product.

In one embodiment of the sales channel providing terminal device according to the present invention, the ratio of the royalty to the sales amount is different depending on the sales area.

[0018] In one embodiment of the sales channel providing terminal device of the present invention, a database for recording the information on the sales is provided, and the content of the information recorded in the database is updated in accordance with the sales of the product. ing.

The method for providing a sales channel according to the present invention is a method for providing a sales channel using a sales channel providing system in which a sales channel use requesting terminal for providing a sales channel and a sales channel providing terminal for requesting use of the sales channel are connected via a network. Retrieving the use of a sales channel held by the sales channel providing terminal from the sales channel providing terminal to the sales channel use requesting terminal; and Receiving a signal indicating that the use of the sales channel is desired from the side terminal and information on a desired sales area.

In one embodiment of the method for providing a sales channel according to the present invention, a step of providing a sales channel corresponding to information on an area for which sales are desired in response to a notification that the reception means has received a request to use the sales channel. Having.

In one embodiment of the sales channel providing method according to the present invention, the sales channel providing terminal further includes a step of receiving a brand name used for selling from the sales channel use requesting terminal.

In one embodiment of the method for providing a sales channel of the present invention, the method further comprises the step of requesting a royalty from the sales channel providing terminal to the sales channel use requesting terminal in accordance with the sales amount of the product.

In one embodiment of the sales channel providing method of the present invention, the ratio of the royalty to the sales amount is set to a different value for each sales area.

[0024] In one embodiment of the sales channel providing method of the present invention, the method further comprises the step of updating the information on the sale of the product recorded in the database in correspondence with the sale of the product.

The storage medium of the present invention is a computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the procedure of the above-described sales channel providing method.

[0026]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS One embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. First, the configuration of the entire network system according to the present embodiment will be described with reference to FIG. FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of the network system according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 1, a sales channel providing terminal device 1 functioning as a server computer
01 is configured to be connectable to a network such as the Internet 100 via a communication function.
Further, a plurality of sales channel use requesting terminal devices 102, 103, 104,... Are connected to the Internet 100.

The sales channel use requesting terminal devices 102, 103,
104 are various information processing terminals, which are connected to the Internet 100 via a communication function. These sales channel use request side terminal devices 102, 103, 104
... place an order for a necessary product to the sales channel providing terminal device 101 via the Internet 100. Sales channel providing terminal device 10 functioning as a server computer
1 is a sales channel use request side terminal device 102, 103, 104
.., And mediating transmission and reception of a base list, which will be described later.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of the sales channel providing terminal device 101 according to the first embodiment of the present invention. Here, reference numeral 201 denotes a CPU. C
The PU 201 controls various components connected via a bus 208 in order to input / output data, transmit / receive data, and combine data. Via this bus 208, mutual transfer of address signals, control signals and various data between various components (devices) connected to the bus 208 is performed. The CPU 201 performs processing of an operation flow of FIG. 4 described later.

Reference numeral 202 denotes a ROM (read only memory)
It is. The ROM 202 stores the CPU 20 in advance.
The first control means (computer program) is stored, and the CPU 201 executes the control means, whereby it is possible to execute processing such as data input / output, data transmission / reception, and the like. The RAM 203 is used as a work memory for input / output of data, transmission / reception, and temporary storage for controlling each component.

Reference numeral 204 denotes an external storage device for storage, such as a hard disk storage device, which does not lose its stored contents even when the power is turned off, and stores a database 204a. 2
Reference numeral 05 denotes a network interface for connecting to the Internet 100. Reference numeral 206 denotes an input device such as a keyboard or a mouse used for inputting an electronic document, a request thereof, and the like to a terminal device. 207
Is an output device such as a display used to display an input screen or the like for various data.

The basic configuration of the sales channel use requesting terminal devices 102, 103, 104,... Used by each business partner is the same as the hardware configuration of the sales channel providing terminal device 101 shown in FIG.

Next, an outline of the processing in the sales channel providing terminal device 101 will be described with reference to FIG.

First, from a company (company A) of the sales channel providing terminal device 101 having the sales channel providing terminal device 101, a plurality of sales channel use requesting terminal devices 102, 103, Call for public use of sales channels for 104. A company that wishes to sell a product using the sales channel of Company A (for example, a manufacturer that manufactures accessories (ACC) for the product of Company A) sends the terminal device 102, 103, 104,. To access the public recruitment requesting the use of the sales channel, and whether to sell using its own brand or to sell using the brand of company A already recognized by consumers Two methods are selected, and the selection result is transmitted.

As shown in FIG. 3, the sales channel providing side terminal device 101, the sales channel use request side terminal devices 102, 10
Display screen 1 for designating the sales area is transmitted to 3, 104. The sales area is, for example, each region in the country,
Representative overseas regions such as the Americas, Europe, and Asia are displayed. Sales channel use request side terminal devices 102, 103, 104 ...
The trader on the side designates an area for which sales are desired from among these areas and transmits the area to the sales channel providing terminal apparatus 101.

As described above, by transmitting the display screen 1 based on a predetermined format for designating a sales area from the sales channel providing terminal device 101, the sales channel use requesting terminal devices 102, 103, 104,. The trader can select a necessary area while referring to the display screen 1.

Further, from the sales channel providing terminal device 101,
A display screen for designating the genre of the product desired to be sold is transmitted to the market use requesting terminal devices 102, 103, 104,. Sales channel use request side terminal device 102,
.., Specify the genre of the product desired to be sold from among these genres and transmit it to the sales channel providing terminal device 101.

[0037] The terminal device 101 on the sales channel providing side has data 3 relating to the sales area, data 4 relating to the brand name, and data 5 relating to the genre of the product to be sold in a predetermined database 2 in advance. The above-described brand name selection screen, sales area selection screen, and genre selection are performed by displaying a display screen created from these data 3, 4, and 5 from the sales channel providing terminal device 101 to the sales channel use requesting terminal devices 102, 103, and 103. ., And is performed by the trader of the market use requesting terminal device 102, 103, 104,.

In this way, the sales channel use requesting terminal device 10 in which the brand name, sales area, and product genre are specified
The products on the 2, 103, 104... Side are posted on a homepage which is a sales channel of the company A, and are sold on the Internet 100 together with the products of the company A, for example. At this time, as the brand of the product, sales are performed under either the brand of Company A selected by the trader or the company's own brand.

When selling, the sales are performed only in the sales area selected by the trader. This eliminates the need to ship products to regions other than the region in which they want to sell, and to create manuals such as manuals in languages that correspond to each country. Can be minimized. In addition, even when it is necessary to limit the sales area due to the nature of the product, it is possible to suppress unnecessary shipment by selling only in the selected sales area.

A user who wishes to purchase a product and who lives in the sales area accesses the dealer of the sales channel providing terminal device 101 via the Internet 100 using his / her own terminal device and purchases the product. To the sales channel providing terminal device 101. Sales channel providing terminal device 101
Then, an order for a product according to a user's request is received and dispatched by a predetermined route.

The terminal 101 on the sales channel providing side rewrites the contents of the product D / B 6 based on information such as the type and number of the products sent and the region where the products are sent. Thereby, the number of sales for each sales area recorded in the product D / B6,
Data such as the sales amount is updated.

Then, in the sales channel providing terminal device 101,
Based on the content of the product D / B6, the royalty of the product to the trader is calculated. The royalty is, for example, an amount of a predetermined ratio of the sales amount of the product, and in the present embodiment, the royalty is set to a different ratio for each sales region. In the example of Fig. 3, the royalty in Japan, which is the country of manufacture, is 5%, and the export countries, the Americas, Europe, and Asia, are 6%, 7%, and 6%, respectively, which are different from those in Japan. Set royalties.

As described above, by changing the ratio of royalties between the manufacturing country and other countries and increasing the ratio in the manufacturing countries, it is possible to obtain a large amount of royalty income in the manufacturing countries where sales are expected to be the most. . Further, the royalty ratio may be changed for each product and each product genre.

The sales channel providing terminal device 101 invoices the trader by the electronic mail 7 for the calculated royalty amount. The trader who receives the e-mail 7 pays the royalties to the company A by a normal transfer method or the like.

Next, the procedure of the process performed by the market providing terminal device 101 to perform the above-described process will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

First, in step S 1, a public offering is made from the sales channel providing terminal device 101 via the Internet 100 for use of the sales channel owned by the company A. Next step S
2, the sales channel use requesting terminal device 10
A brand name selection screen is transmitted to 2, 103, 104,. Next, in step S3, in response to the brand name transmitted by the company desiring to use the sales channel, the user accesses the sales area selection screen and the product genre selection screen for designating the sales area corresponding to the brand. Are transmitted to the terminal devices 102, 103, 104,...

Next, in step S4, the merchandise the seller wants to sell is posted on the Web in the designated sales area based on the sales area selection information transmitted by the trader. At this time, the information is posted on the Web under the brand name selected by the trader based on the brand name selection screen.

In the next step S5, an order for a product is received via the Internet 100 from the user who browsed the product posted on the Web. In the next step S6,
The ordered product is sent to the user by a method such as mailing.

Next, in step S7, the contents of the merchandise D / B 6 are updated according to the kind and number of the merchandise sent. Next, in step S8, royalties are calculated at a ratio set for each sales area with reference to the contents of the product D / B6. Next, in step S9, an e-mail 7 requesting the calculated royalty is transmitted. Then, in the next step S10, a royalty payment is received from the trader.

As described above, according to the present embodiment, a person who has already established a sales channel publicly solicits the use of the sales channel and widely solicits the use of the sales channel, thereby obtaining a sufficient sales channel. Even a company that has not done so can sell products on already established sales channels, and can easily increase sales without putting effort into market development. In addition, for a company that has a sales channel, it is possible to obtain royalty income without actually selling the product by charging a royalty to the company that uses the sales channel.

Also, by specifying the sales area of the product from the trader who requests the use of the sales channel, sales can be performed only in the necessary sales area, the product can be shipped, manuals corresponding to each area can be created, It is possible to minimize procedures associated with sales, such as currency exchange of the billing amount.

(Other Embodiments) Each functional block and processing procedure shown in the above various embodiments may be configured by hardware as described above, or may be a CPU or MPU, a microcontroller including ROM, RAM and the like. It may be configured by a computer system, and its operation may be realized according to a work program stored in a ROM or a RAM. The present invention also includes a software program for realizing the functions of the respective functional blocks, which is provided to the RAM so as to realize the functions of the functional blocks, and which is executed by operating the functional blocks according to the programs. include.

In this case, the software program itself implements the functions of the above-described embodiments, and the program itself and means for supplying the program to a computer, for example, a recording medium storing the program Constitute the present invention. As a storage medium for storing such a program, the above-described ROM or RAM
Besides, for example, floppy (registered trademark) disk, hard disk, optical disk, magneto-optical disk, CD-RO
M, CD-I, CD-R, CD-RW, DVD, zi
p, a magnetic tape, a nonvolatile memory card, or the like can be used.

When the computer executes the supplied program, not only the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized, but also the OS (operating system) or other application software running on the computer. Needless to say, such a program is also included in the embodiment of the present invention when the functions of the above-described embodiment are realized in cooperation with the above.

Further, after the supplied program is stored in the memory provided in the function expansion board of the computer or the function expansion unit connected to the computer, the program is provided in the function expansion board or the function expansion unit based on the instruction of the program. It is needless to say that the present invention also includes a case where the CPU or the like performs part or all of the actual processing, and the processing realizes the functions of the above-described embodiments.

[0056]

According to the present invention, a company that does not have a sales channel on a network can easily acquire a sales channel, and sells a product only in a necessary sales area in the sales channel. It becomes possible.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram illustrating a form of a network constituting a sales channel providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a sales channel providing terminal device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a diagram schematically illustrating a configuration and a processing procedure of a sales channel providing system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating a processing procedure in the sales channel providing terminal device according to the embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 Reference Signs List 1 display screen 2 database 3, 4, 5 data 6 commodity D / B 7 e-mail 100 Internet 101 sales channel providing terminal device 102-104 sales channel use requesting terminal device 201 CPU 202 ROM 203 RAM 204 external storage device 204a database 205 network interface 206 input device 207 output device

Claims (19)

[Claims] 1. A sales channel providing system in which a sales channel providing terminal that provides a sales channel and a sales channel use requesting terminal that requests use of the sales channel are connected via a network, wherein the sales channel providing terminal includes: For a market use requesting terminal, a market use recruiting unit for recruiting use of a market held by the market providing terminal, and the market use requesting terminal for the use of the market by the market recruiting unit. A sales channel providing system, comprising: a receiving unit that receives a notification that a sales channel is desired to be used and information about a region where the sales are desired. 2. A sales channel providing means for providing a sales channel corresponding to information on an area where sales are desired in response to a notification that the reception means receives a request to use the sales channel. 2. The sales channel providing system according to 1. 3. The sales channel providing system according to claim 1, wherein the sales channel providing terminal further includes a brand name receiving unit that receives a brand name used for selling from the sales channel use requesting terminal. 4. The sales channel providing terminal charges a royalty to the sales channel use requesting terminal in accordance with a sales amount of the product.
The sales channel providing system according to any one of the above. 5. The sales channel providing system according to claim 4, wherein a ratio of the royalty to the sales amount is set to a different value according to the sales area. 6. The sales channel providing terminal includes a database for recording information related to the sales, and updates contents of the information recorded in the database according to sales of the product. The sales channel providing system according to claim 1. 7. A sales channel use recruiting means for recruiting the use of the sales channel held by a sales channel use requesting terminal connected via a network, and a request for use of the sales channel from the market use requesting terminal. And a receiving means for receiving a notification that the information is to be transmitted and information on a desired sales area. 8. A sales channel providing means for providing a sales channel corresponding to the information of the area for which the sales are desired in response to the notification that the reception means receives the request for using the sales channel. Item 8. The sales channel providing terminal device according to item 7. 9. The sales channel providing terminal device according to claim 7, further comprising brand name receiving means for receiving a brand name used for selling from the sales channel use requesting terminal. 10. The sales channel providing side according to any one of claims 7 to 9, wherein a royalty is charged to the sales channel use requesting terminal in accordance with a sales amount of the product. Terminal device. 11. The sales channel providing terminal device according to claim 10, wherein a ratio of the royalty to the sales amount is set to a different value according to the sales area. 12. The system according to claim 7, further comprising a database for recording information on the sale, wherein the content of the information recorded in the database is updated according to the sale of the product. 9. The sales channel providing terminal device according to claim 1. 13. A sales channel providing method using a sales channel providing system in which a sales channel use requesting terminal for providing a sales channel and a sales channel providing terminal for requesting the use of the sales channel are connected via a network. From the providing terminal to the market use requesting terminal, recruiting the use of the market held by the market providing terminal, and the market use requesting terminal from the market use requesting terminal in response to the use of the market. Receiving the signal indicating that the use is desired and the information of the desired sales area by the terminal for providing the market. 14. The method according to claim 13, further comprising the step of providing a sales channel corresponding to information on a region where sales are desired in response to a notification that the reception unit has received a request to use said sales channel. The sales channel provision method described. 15. The sales channel providing terminal according to claim 13, further comprising a step of receiving a brand name used at the time of sales from the sales channel use requesting terminal.
4. The sales channel providing method according to 4. 16. The method according to claim 13, further comprising the step of charging a royalty from the sales channel providing terminal to the sales channel use requesting terminal in accordance with the sales amount of the product. Sales channel provision method described in section. 17. The sales channel providing method according to claim 16, wherein the ratio of the royalty to the sales amount is different for each sales area. 18. The provision of a sales channel according to any one of claims 13 to 17, further comprising a step of updating information on sales of the goods recorded in the database in correspondence with the sales of the goods. Method. 19. A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute the procedure of the sales channel providing method according to any one of claims 13 to 18.