JP2006106920A - System for selling commodity requiring preservation of freshness - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To construct a system for efficiently selling and delivering commodities that require preservation of freshness, such as flowers and ornamental plants. <P>SOLUTION: A server at a center 1 is connected by a communication system such as the Internet to terminals at a market 2 and at retail stores A, B, C that are purchasers of the commodities. While the commodities from producers dedicated to the market are being transported to the market 2, the center 1 sells through the Web some of the commodities being transported, and distributes the sold commodities to each retailer at the same time that the commodities arrive at a delivery center. The producer 4 who requested the center 1 to directly sell the commodities transports the commodities that have been completely sold through the Web to the retailer B that signed to keep the commodities. The retailer B keeps the commodities. When a delivery means 3 delivers the commodities purchased by the retailer B, the commodities stored are collected by the delivery means 3 as the next commodities to be sold. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to a system related to the sale and delivery of fresh products, and more particularly to the sale and delivery of fresh products configured to buy and sell the products over the Internet while transporting flower buds as flowers. About the system to do.

  In recent years, flower transactions are also being carried out electronically via the Internet, coupled with a reduction in the cost of transporting flowers as a product, etc. Internet transactions are expected to increase in the future.

A retail store purchases florets as merchandise from the flower market, which is a wholesale market, and retails it to consumers.
The flower market has a huge flower market in Tokyo, Osaka, etc. and a relatively small local flower market in the region. The local flower market was divided and each local flower market dealt with finely handled the flower buds rooted in the region.

  However, recently, commodity transaction systems using communication information transmission means such as the Internet have been built one after another, and the labor of the transaction has been considerably eased as compared with the past. However, it is not always easy to build a system related to electronic transactions using the Internet, etc., and the system related to electronic transactions is centered on the huge flower market because the advantages of the system cannot be utilized unless it is premised on nationwide transactions. The fact is that it is built.

While nationwide Internet flower trading has the above-mentioned advantages, it also has the following problems.
In other words, because transactions are nationwide, no matter how many types of florets are handled, it is impossible to prepare products that meet all the needs in each region. In other words, because the market is standardized nationwide and pushed by national flower trading, the local flower market tends to be driven out, making it difficult for each region to distribute its unique flowers. Similarly, there is a tendency that the flower producers in the region cannot handle relatively small lots of goods.
Although the disclosure of the prior art relating to the electronic trade of flower buds is extremely small, there is a technique shown in the following patent document as a related technique.
JP 2004-145581 A JP-A-9-196545

  Among these, although the technique described in Patent Document 1 uses a communication network such as the Internet, it is a system in which a florist as a retail store sends a flower bud as a product to a consumer. It is not a system that provides merchandise to retail stores. In addition, the contents described in Patent Document 2 are mainly related to the technology related to the transportation of florets as products.

  It is an object of the present invention to make it possible to more quickly sell the products of the flower producers in the area where the flowers are sold more quickly to the retail store and the flowers are delivered as a product, and the product is delivered. It is.

  The present invention is a system for selling and transporting products that are required to maintain freshness, such as flower buds, in an information network system such as the Internet. It is formed between the server of the center that sells to the retail store that is the purchaser, the terminal of the retail store that purchases products from the center, and the terminal of the center contract producer that sells products directly to the center, The terminals and the center server are connected to an information network, and the center server has a means for WEB selling a part of products for the wholesale market, a means for WEB selling products directly sold by the center contract producer, and WEB Means for sorting products to be delivered to each purchaser based on sales data of sales; means for delivering the sorted products to each purchaser; When the center transports products produced by a producer exclusively for the wholesale market to the wholesale market, the center sells a part of the product based on this transported product information and at the same time sells directly sold products produced by the center contract producer. When the WEB sales are performed and the products sold by the WEB are delivered to each purchaser, the retailer that is the purchaser who stores the directly sold products from the center contract producer collects the stored products outside the product delivery. The present invention is characterized in that it is a product sales system that is required to maintain freshness.

  The present invention sells products by means of information transmission means such as the Internet in parallel with the transportation of products in products that need to maintain freshness and early sales such as flowers, and the server based on the sales data Since sorting data can also be created, the product arrives at the delivery center, and the product can be sorted and loaded with the product corresponding to the delivery route, so that the time from sale to delivery of the product can be greatly shortened.

  Also, the data of the product desired for direct sales is input from the producer, and the product desired for direct sales is also sold at the time of WEB sales of the wholesale market product, and the data of the product for which the sale has been established is output to the terminal of the predetermined producer Therefore, by sending and receiving data on the WEB, the producer immediately transports the products that have been sold to the designated retail store without any loss of time, and the center purchases the purchased products to this retail store. It is possible to collect directly-sold products that the retail store keeps when delivering.

  In addition, since some of the products that are shipped to the huge market will be sold on the web, it will be possible to increase the range of products to be sold, and at the same time sell the products of producers that produce products in or near the product delivery area. As a result, it becomes possible to respond to local product demands in detail.

  The center and the distribution center of the center are set up in the local groom market, or the local groom market itself is configured to function as a center. The center server orders predetermined products from the central giant flower market via ordering means, and the goods provided for WEB sales from this central giant flower market are the producers dedicated to this giant flower market. Sells the product on the way to the giant flower market, sorts the product sold on the web, and delivers it to the WEB buyer by a self-owned or separate transportation means such as a shipping company.

  Similarly, for example, a list of commodities that can be shipped is received from a local flower producer who has a direct sales contract with the center (hereinafter referred to as a “center contract producer” including the examples), and the products along the list are received as described above. WEB sales with products. Of the products that the center has received from the market, products that have been sold to and sold from the retail store are sorted at the distribution center, and are sequentially delivered to the retail store that purchased the product. During this period, a list of products that have been successfully sold out of the WEB-sold products sold on the web is output to the terminal of the predetermined manufacturer, and the manufacturer displays the quantity and type of flowers corresponding to this list at the nearest retail store, etc. Ships to a predetermined retail store.

  A predetermined retail store keeps the bridegroom, and the center collects the bridegroom deposited by the retail store when the WEB purchased product is delivered to the retail store.

First, the outline of the system according to the present invention will be described with reference to FIG.
This system sells florets provided from the giant flower market (hereinafter simply referred to as “wholesale market”) to WEB sales to retail stores, and the products purchased by each retail store to each retail store. This is a system established between a center having a function of delivering a product, a retail store that purchases products from the center, and a producer that directly sells florets produced by herself.

  FIG. 1 shows a movement state of a product among the systems, and this system is a computer network system configured to be able to quickly and reliably buy and sell the product.

  First, products that Center 1 receives from wholesale market 2 or products that Center 1 requests to provide specific products (hereinafter referred to as “ordering”) are sold by wholesale producers in wholesale market 2 The products sold on the web in the middle of transporting the goods to 2 and the goods sold on the web are transported to the distribution center 1A of the center 1. When the product arrives at the distribution center 1A, the product is sorted.

  Next, the merchandise for each retail store that has output the merchandise purchase data is sequentially loaded corresponding to the route of delivery. Products can be delivered using disposable cardboard containers, but so-called returnable containers (hereinafter referred to as “containers”) such as reusable plastic containers are used for resource conservation and waste disposal. Is reasonable. Hereinafter, a case where a container is used will be described as an example.

  The inventors transported the florets using a plastic container, and confirmed that the longevity of the florets is greatly improved as compared with a container such as cardboard. At present, the reason for this is unknown, but it is speculated that the plastic material, which is a polymer material, may be used to adsorb substances such as ethylene that age the flower. In any case, the container made of plastic has good flower life as described above, and the effect of obtaining a good result directly on the product, and the great advantage that a large amount of garbage such as disposable cardboard is not generated. There is. In addition, in a system that cyclically distributes and collects merchandise, such as the system of the present invention, plastic containers can be distributed and collected alternately or at the same time. Does not occur.

  The delivery means 3 at the center of the truck or the like first delivers the goods purchased by the retail store A to the retail store A located at the beginning of the delivery route. In this retail store A, the purchased goods are delivered and the containers used in the previous delivery are collected.

  Subsequently, the retail store B located next to the route has signed a contract with the producer 4 or with the producer 4 and the center 1 for depositing the product produced by the producer 4 in advance. The producer 4 has received from the center 1 data on products that have been sold on the WEB sales site of the center 1, and retails a predetermined amount of products based on this sales data, for example, 5 boxes of lily and 3 boxes of lily. The product is transported to the store B, and the retail store B keeps the product until the center 1 collects the product.

  In the retail store B, the delivery means 3 of the center 1 collects and collects the products of the producer 4 stored in the retail store B, in addition to delivering the products purchased by the retail store B and collecting the containers. Similarly to retail store A, retail store C does not make a contract to accept the product from the producer and does not purchase the product this time, so it only collects the container.

  The configuration of FIG. 1 shows the system of the present invention in the simplest form. In actuality, the number of member stores of the retail store can be set to several tens or 100 or more. There are actually a large number of producers who want to sell directly and the retail stores that store the products of these producers. In order to start selling products in the middle of transporting the products, a huge amount of data is processed in an extremely short time. The WEB sales system of goods needs to be automatically executed by the center server without human intervention. A large number of such systems can be configured in the country, and each system can function in a mutually assisting manner, for example, independently of each other or with each other.

FIG. 2 shows the configuration of a server that performs data processing related to the sale and delivery of goods in the center 2.
Reference numeral 5 denotes a database related to products sold by the center 1, which is a database related to the type and amount of goods procured (provided) from the wholesale market 2 by the center 1 (hereinafter referred to as “data of the product A via the market”). 5A, and a database 5B relating to data such as the type of goods desired to be sold and the amount of goods that can be received, which the producer 4 outputs from its own terminal via the WEB (hereinafter referred to as “data for direct sales products B”) ing.

  The central processing unit 6 determines the price of each product by the price determination unit 7 based on the data in the database 5 and publishes the type, quantity, price, etc. of the product on the WEB via the sales product display unit 8. For example, a WEB sale of a product is performed when a consumer accesses a transaction column on a home page established by the center 1.

  Here, the price determination means 7 is configured as a database in which sales results up to the previous time, future demand change predictions, and the like are input, and automatically determines the price of each product based on these data. However, it is possible for the predetermined person of the center 1 to correct the determined price by taking his own judgment into account.

  Data obtained by buying and selling by WEB sales of the product is input to the central processing unit 6 as sequential sales data 9. The central processing unit 6 sequentially creates delivery product data 10 such as the type and quantity of delivery products corresponding to the sales data 9. At the same time, collected product data 11 for collecting and collecting the stored products is created at the delivery destination of these products or the delivery destination that has received the direct sales product B from the producer.

  Further, in accordance with these data 10 and 11, the route for delivery and collection of products is created from the map data 12, the delivery order of the retail stores in the route is determined, and the product loading sequential determination means 13 corresponding to this. Thus, the order of loading the products to the delivery means 3 such as a truck is determined, and the products are loaded. For example, taking the case of FIG. 1 as an example, since the delivery route is closer to the front in the order of retail stores A, B, and C, if goods are loaded from the back of the loading platform in the order of retail stores C, A, and B, Since the merchandise of the retail store whose delivery order is earlier is located on the front side of the loading platform, it is easy to take out the merchandise at the time of delivery.

FIG. 3 shows, in chronological order, data exchange and data creation when buying and selling goods through the server of the center 1.
An order is placed for terminal products in the groom market through a server (hereinafter referred to as a “center server”) 20 in the center 1 (S1), and a list of shipped products A corresponding to the order contents is sent from the market terminal 21 to the center server. 20 (S2). On the other hand, a list of commodities B that can be shipped is output to the center server 20 from the terminal 22 of the producer 4 shown in FIG. 1 (S3).

  The center server 20 creates a WEB list for the product A (S4) and a WEB list for the product B (S5) from each product list output from the market terminal 21 and the producer terminal 22, and the products A and WEB sale of B is performed (S6). During this time, each retail store performs WEB purchase of the product A or B via the retail store terminal 23 (S7).

  The center server 20 outputs a list of products B sold on the WEB to each center contract producer's terminal 22 after the WEB sales of the products are finished (S8). The producer transports the product corresponding to the sales list output to his / her terminal 22 to a retail store predetermined as a relay point, the retail store stores the product, and the retail store stores the product purchased this time. When delivered from the center, the stored product is delivered to the collection means 3 of the center 1.

  FIG. 4 shows a time chart relating to the exchange of information on the WEB and the movement of goods shown in FIG. Note that the step numbers in the figure correspond to the step numbers in the flow in FIG.

  First, from time T0 to T1, the center contract producer who contracts with the center 1 outputs the data of the product B2 that can be shipped to the center server 20. Here, the product B that can be shipped is B2, which means that this product is WEB-sold this time and delivered to the retail store at the time of the next product delivery. Incidentally, a product B1, which will be described later, is a product sold in the previous WEB sale, and means a product to be delivered this time. Depending on conditions such as the delivery route setting state of the product, the product directly sold on the WEB is immediately shipped to a predetermined retail store, and the center collects the shipped product and delivers it to a predetermined WEB purchaser. It is also possible to deliver the product without making it the next delivery product.

  Similarly, in this time period T0 to T1, the center 1 places an order (S1) for products to the groom market, and the groom market outputs a list of products to be shipped to the center 1 in response to the order to the center server. (S2).

  In the next time period T1 to T2, the center transports the product A from each market to its own distribution center, and the product B2 listed from the center contract producer during the transportation of the product A. WEB sales and WEB sales for goods A being transported from the wholesale market exclusive producer to the wholesale market are carried out simultaneously (S6). The retail store purchases a desired product on the web corresponding to the web sale (S7).

  Subsequently, in time periods T2 and T3, the producer receives a list of products that are confirmed to be sold through WEB sales, and transports the product B2 corresponding to the list to a predetermined retail store. The center also lists products for which WEB sales have been completed for each retail store, sorts the products according to this list, and loads each product into the transportation means 3 according to the route shown in FIG. .

  In the subsequent time zones T3 and T4, the delivery means 3 of the center 1 delivers the product A sorted to each retail store according to the delivery route, and the direct sales product B1 of the producer purchased in the previous WEB sale. If there is a product B2 from the producer, the product B2 is also collected. On the other hand, each retail store correspondingly receives the purchased product A or B and stores the product B2 that has been deposited until the center 1 collects and collects it.

  In the last time zone T4 and T5, if the delivery of the product and the collection / collection of the custody product are completed and the transportation means 3 returns to the distribution center, the center 1 purchases the next delivery product B2 collected and collected. Sorting is performed every time, and in preparation for the next product sale, the WEB sale and delivery of the product for one time and the collection of the product B are finished. By repeating this flow, merchandise sales, delivery, collection and collection are performed efficiently and cyclically.

  The present invention has been described mainly with respect to flower buds, but since this system is a system that sells, distributes, and collects goods in a short time with high efficiency, it maintains the freshness like flower buds. It can be used very effectively for required goods such as sales and delivery of fresh fish.

The above system will be specifically described by taking a specific region as an example.
Incidentally, the giant flower market described as the wholesale market 2 exists in Japan as seven major flower markets of Hokkaido 1, Tokyo 3, Osaka 2, and Kyushu 1.

  Traditionally, the local small-scale flower buds market has only been unilaterally supplied with goods from these seven large flower buds markets, but this system provides products and services including products as regional products along with the supply of this product. It is configured to be a regional circulation type.

For example, the system is structured in Gifu Prefecture, and the relationship between the center contract producer and the center is shown more specifically as follows.
In this case, the center 1 is also set up in Gifu Prefecture, and one of the center contract producers is a person who produces lily at Oku Mino. The center discusses the contents of products that can be shipped and sold the next day, either directly or via the WEB, directly with the Oku Mino lily producer, and the center will post this on WEB transaction information and sell it.

  At the end of the WEB sale, the lily producer of Okuno is notified of the sold contents, and the flower is picked from the next day and shipped in the afternoon. Shipment may be made to a place designated by the lily producer in advance as a product storage place as in the above embodiment, but depending on the route setting of the delivery center, the delivery center may send a predetermined lily from the lily producer. You may comprise so that it may collect and deliver to the person who purchased WEB. In this case, it has been clarified by field verification by the inventors that it is possible in 12 hours from flowering to delivery in the region.

Also, as shown in the above embodiment, when the goods are delivered in a plastic container, the container made by the inventors as a prototype can be used 100 times and can be configured at a price of 3700 yen. In the case of conventional cardboard packaging, the cardboard box is disposable and the unit price is about 300 yen, so it is 30,000 yen in 100 calculations by simple calculation, which is very uneconomical compared to plastic containers, and a large amount for each delivery There is also a problem that trash comes out.
On the other hand, the plastic container has high strength in addition to the above-mentioned economic advantages, so even if a large number of florets are stacked during storage or transportation, the internal florets will not be damaged, and storage and transportation are extremely easy. However, as described above, it was also confirmed that it is extremely effective for maintaining the freshness of the florets.

  At present, flower producers deduct approximately 30% of the value of product shipments due to cardboard box charges, fees to the regional economy, transportation charges, market sales fees, etc. On the other hand, in the case of this system, the burden on the center contract producer is a plastic box fee (37 yen / once) and a 3% sales fee for the center. It was possible to reduce it considerably, and it was confirmed that the center was sufficiently profitable in this state.

  The above is the simulation and experiment of this system centered on Gifu Prefecture, but it is clear from the above description that the system can basically be implemented in any region in Japan.

It is a conceptual diagram which shows the distribution state of the goods in the system which concerns on this invention. It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the center server which makes the center of the system of this invention. It is a flowchart of information transfer in the system of this invention. It is a time chart regarding exchange of information and goods in the system of the present invention.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Center 2 Market 3 Delivery means 4 Producer 6 Central processing part 7 Price determination means 8 Sales merchandise display means 9 Sales data creation part 10 Delivery merchandise data 11 Delivery destination / collected merchandise data 12 Map data 13 Commodity loading order decision means 20 ( Center's server 21 Market terminal 22 Producer terminal 23 Retail terminal

Claims (7)

A system for selling and transporting products that require keeping freshness, such as flower buds, in an information network system such as the Internet. Formed between a server at a center that sells to purchasers such as retail stores, a terminal at a retail store that is a purchaser who purchases products from the center, and a terminal at a contract contract producer that sells products directly to the center The terminal and the center server are connected to an information network, and the center server has a means for WEB selling a part of products for a wholesale market, and a means for WEB selling a product directly sold by a center contract producer. , Means for sorting products to be delivered to each purchaser based on sales data of WEB sales, and delivering the sorted products to each purchaser When the center transports the product produced by a producer exclusively for the wholesale market to the wholesale market, the center sells a part of the product based on this transport product information and at the same time produces the center contract producer. WEB sales of the directly sold products, and when the products sold on the WEB are delivered to each retailer that is the purchaser, the product is delivered to the retailer that is the purchaser who stores the direct sales product from the center contract producer. In addition to the above, a system for selling products requiring maintenance of freshness, characterized in that it is configured to collect the products in custody. The center server has a means for determining a selling price for a WEB sale product A provided from a wholesale market and a product B that each center contract producer wants to sell WEB, and the price is determined by this price determination means. 2. A freshness maintaining method according to claim 1, further comprising means for displaying the sold product as a WEB sale product, and a sales data creation unit for creating a type of product for which WEB sale has been established and purchaser data of the product. Sales system for products that require The center server is provided with means for determining a delivery product loading order for the delivery means based on the data of the sales data creation unit and the delivery route data of the goods. Or the sales system of the goods for which the freshness maintenance of 2 description is requested | required. The center server is provided with means for outputting the desired product B of the center contract producer for which WEB sales have been established to the terminal of each center contract producer as data of the next delivery product B2. 4. The product sales system as claimed in claim 1, wherein the product B2 is transported as a stored product to a predetermined retail store as a purchaser. The server of the center is provided with a function of selling the desired product B of the center contract producer for performing WEB sales as a WEB direct sales product, and the center contract producer provides a predetermined product as a purchaser for which WEB sales have been established. The product is transported to a retail store as a custody product, and the center collects the custody product, and delivers the collected WEB direct sales product and the WEB sale product of a wholesale market exclusive producer to a predetermined WEB purchaser. A sales system for commodities that is required to maintain freshness according to any one of claims 1 to 3. The center delivery means is configured to deliver the delivery product designated by the center server to each retail store as a purchaser, and to collect and collect the goods entrusted by the producer from the retail store designated by the server. The product sales system as claimed in any one of claims 1 to 5, which is required to maintain freshness. The product is delivered and collected in a predetermined container provided by the center, and the center delivers the container containing the delivered product to the product purchaser and collects the empty container used for the previous delivery. The sales system of the goods in which the freshness maintenance is required in any one of Claims 1 thru | or 6.

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