JP2003114988A - Merchandise quotation system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To shorten time required for quotation and to reduce waste in the case of requesting quotation of similar merchandise when the quotation of merchandise such as a freezer for business use is requested. SOLUTION: When a request of quotation of the merchandise is received from a client terminal 4 of a customer, a server 2 of a manufacturer requests input of selecting conditions of the merchandise to the customer. When the selecting conditions of the merchandise are inputted from the client terminal 4 of the customer, the server 2 of the manufacturer selects merchandise to satisfy the selecting conditions and returns quotation data to the client terminal 4 of the customer. Thus, required time from the request of quotation of the merchandise by the customer to acquisition of the quotation is remarkably shortened.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a commodity estimation system suitable for ordering commercial refrigerators installed in convenience stores and supermarkets.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, when ordering refrigerators and refrigerators for business use, customers such as agents and contractors ask manufacturers for various selection conditions (name of stored item, effective internal volume, internal temperature, The internal humidity is displayed to request a quote for a product (commercial refrigerator), and the manufacturer creates a quote and presents it to the customer.

When the manufacturer prepares the estimate, the load is calculated according to the customer's selection conditions, the required refrigerating capacity is calculated based on the result, and the selected refrigerating capacity is slightly larger than the required refrigerating capacity. , And selected one or more models that can exert this selected refrigerating capacity.

[0004]

However, this method has many disadvantages because it depends on the manual work of the manufacturer.

First, especially if the manufacturer is busy,
Customers may wait days after requesting a quote for a product before actually getting a quote.

Secondly, even if a customer requests a quote for a product under conditions similar to those in the past, such a history is not effectively utilized, and it is necessary to request the quote again, which is wasteful.

In view of such circumstances, it is an object of the present invention to provide a product quotation system capable of shortening the time required for quotation and reducing waste when requesting quotation of similar products. To do.

[0008]

First, the invention according to claim 1 of the present invention is a product in which a client terminal for ordering a product and a server for receiving the order for the product are communicably connected via a communication network. In the quotation system, the server is configured to return the quotation data corresponding to the product selection condition input from the client terminal, to the client terminal. Here, the Internet can be cited as a typical example of the communication network.

By adopting such a configuration, the time required from the customer requesting a quote for a product to obtaining the quote is remarkably shortened, so that the manufacturer is busy and the customer has to wait for many days. Disappears.

In the invention according to claim 2 of the present invention, the server has an order-accepting database configured by order-accepting data of past commodities, and the selection condition includes the order-accepting data of past commodities from the order-accepting database. Is configured to include a condition that refers to.

According to a third aspect of the present invention, the ordering database has a unique sheet number for each record, and the sheet number can be used in the selection condition.

Further, in the invention according to claim 4 of the present invention, the selection condition is that all the past records of customers connected to the communication network are obtained from the order database and displayed on the client terminal. Composed.

With these configurations, it is possible to effectively utilize past input data and save the labor of inputting selection conditions.

It should be noted that the reference numerals in parentheses are for convenience of representing corresponding elements in the drawings, and therefore the present invention is not limited to the description in the drawings. This also applies to the "Claims" section.

[0015]

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a product estimation system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a selection condition selection screen, and FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a selection condition input screen, FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of the estimation result screen, and FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a sheet number input screen.

As shown in FIG. 1, the product quotation system 1 comprises a server 2 of a manufacturer and client terminals 4 of a plurality of customers (four in FIG. 1), and the server 2 of the manufacturer. And the client terminal 4 of the customer are connected to the Internet 5 via communication cables 25 and 45, respectively.

The server 2 of this manufacturer has an information processing device 21 for publishing a homepage on the Internet 5. The information processing device 21 includes an input device 22 such as a keyboard, a display device 23 such as a liquid crystal display, and the like. Storage devices 24a and 24b such as two magnetic disks are connected. One storage device 24a stores home page data, and the other storage device 24b stores various types of information (installation method, construction examples, advice, etc.) for each refrigerator model. An order database including records based on order data of past products for each customer is accumulated, and a unique sheet number is stored as a key in each record.

Each client terminal 4 of each customer has an information processing device 41 such as a personal computer, and each information processing device 41 has an input device 42 such as a keyboard, a display device 43 such as a liquid crystal display, and a magnetic disk. Storage device 44 is connected.

Since the merchandise quotation system 1 has the above-mentioned configuration, when the customer uses the merchandise quotation system 1 to request the manufacturer to estimate the commercial refrigerator, the following procedure is performed.

First, a customer operates the information processing device 41 on the client terminal 4 to start a browser (home page browsing software), and as shown in FIG. 2, a site on the Internet 5 which is established by the manufacturer in advance. After opening the homepage of, enter your customer ID and password and send. At this time, if the customer ID or password is not valid, a screen prompting you to enter it again will be displayed. If the customer ID and password are valid, the screen will switch to the screen for entering selection conditions and the "Load value / model" ”Or“ Past purchase result ”is selected with the radio button, as explained below,
The estimation is executed according to the selected selection condition input method.

That is, when "load value / model" is selected as the selection condition input method, as shown in FIG. 3, the customer name is displayed and various selection conditions (stored product name, effective internal volume, inside of storage) are displayed. A screen for entering the temperature, humidity in the cabinet, etc. is displayed. Then, enter various selection conditions and send,
These selection condition data reach the manufacturer's server 2 via the Internet 5.

Then, the information processing device 21 of the manufacturer's server 2 appropriately selects the model of the commercial refrigerator according to these selection condition data. That is, a predetermined load is calculated based on the customer's selection condition data, and the required refrigerating capacity of the refrigerator (for example, 3,250) and the required cooling capacity of the cooler (for example, 4,010) are calculated from the results. . After that, taking into consideration the operating margins with respect to the required refrigerating capacity and the required cooling capacity, the selected refrigerating capacity of the refrigerator (for example, 5,900) and the selected cooling capacity of the cooler (for example,
7,070), and select all models (refrigerator and cooler) that can exert the selected refrigerating capacity and the selected cooling capacity.

Then, the manufacturer's server 2 sends these quotation data back to the client's client terminal 4 via the Internet 5. Then, as shown in FIG. 4, the customer can browse these estimation data on the display device 43. That is, the refrigerator model is "Z2000-SL" as the standard type and "Z2000-L" as the energy-saving type.
"B" and low noise type "Z2000-LN" are displayed with the list price, and the cooler model "U6060FH" is displayed with the list price. Instead of this fixed price, an estimated price obtained by multiplying the fixed price by the multiplication rate according to the amount of money or the multiplication rate for each customer may be displayed.

When any one or more of these three types of refrigerators are selected with a selection button to place an order, a data access ID is issued for each selected model, and the order is completed. It reaches the customer by e-mail. Therefore, when the customer accesses the storage device 24b of the manufacturer's server 2 with each data access ID, various information of the model (installation method, construction example, advice, etc.) can be viewed on the display device 43. This is useful when ordering a refrigerator and installing it at a site (convenience store, supermarket, etc.).

On the other hand, when "past purchase result" is selected as the selection condition input method, as shown in FIG. 5, a screen for inputting the sheet number when the contract is estimated and closed in the past is displayed. . Next, when the sheet number is input and transmitted, a record including the selection condition data at that time is read from the order reception database by using the sheet number as a key, and the record is returned to the client terminal 4 of the customer and displayed on the display device 43. Since it is displayed, only the selection condition data to be corrected is corrected and transmitted to the manufacturer's server 2. Then, the information processing device 21 of the server 2 of the manufacturer
In the same manner as the above-mentioned procedure, selects the model of the commercial refrigerator as appropriate based on these selection condition data, and returns it to the client terminal 4 of the customer and displays it on the display device 43. In addition, if you do not enter the seat number on the screen to enter the seat number and send it as blank, a list of all models that the customer has already quoted and reached the contract, that is, the purchased model list is read from the order database. Since it is displayed on the display device 43, if a model similar to the model of this time is selected from among them, the data of the model is displayed on the display device 43, which saves the labor of inputting the selection condition data described above. It can be largely omitted.

In the above embodiment, the case where the Internet 5 is used as the communication network connecting the server 2 of the manufacturer and the client terminal 4 of the customer has been described. However, instead of the Internet 5, a power line, ISDN line, ADSL. It is also possible to use a cable television broadcasting line, a digital television broadcasting line, or the like.

[0027]

As described above, according to the invention of claim 1 of the present invention, the time required from the customer requesting a quote for a product to obtaining the quote is significantly shortened. Since the situation in which the manufacturer is busy and the customer has to wait for many days does not occur, it is possible to provide a product quotation system capable of shortening the time required for quotation.

Further, according to the inventions according to claims 2 to 4 of the present invention, it is possible to effectively utilize past input data and save the time and effort of inputting selection conditions. Can be reduced.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of a product estimation system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a schematic view showing an example of a selection condition selection screen.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a selection condition input screen.

FIG. 4 is a schematic diagram showing an example of an estimation result screen.

FIG. 5 is a schematic diagram showing an example of a sheet number input screen.

[Explanation of symbols]

1 ... Product quotation system 2 ... Manufacturer's server 4 ... Client's client terminal 5: Internet (communication network)

   ─────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continued front page    (72) Inventor Masao Kajima             2-5-3 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Prefecture             Within Yo Denki Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Masayuki Kogure             2-5-3 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Prefecture             Within Yo Denki Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Taniguchi Ikumin             2-5-3 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Prefecture             Within Yo Denki Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Hiroshi Nishikawa             2-5-3 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Prefecture             Within Yo Denki Co., Ltd. (72) Inventor Yoshio Ida             2-5-3 Keihan Hondori, Moriguchi City, Osaka Prefecture             Within Yo Denki Co., Ltd.

Claims (4)

[Claims] 1. A product quotation system in which a client terminal for ordering a product and a server for receiving an order for the product are communicably connected via a communication network, wherein the server is a selection condition for the product input from the client terminal. The product quotation system, wherein the quotation data corresponding to the above is returned to the client terminal. 2. The server has an order receiving database configured by order receiving data of past products, and the selection condition includes a condition for referring to order receiving data of past products from the order receiving database. The product quotation system according to claim 1. 3. The product quotation system according to claim 2, wherein the order receipt database has a unique sheet number for each record, and the sheet number can be used under the selection condition. 4. The selection condition according to claim 2, wherein all the past records of customers connected to the communication network are obtained from the order database and displayed on the client terminal. Product quote system described.