JP2006160395A - Article delivery information output device and article delivery information output method - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an article delivery information output device, outputting article delivery information for performing suitable delivery of articles. <P>SOLUTION: This article delivery information output device includes: a request information receiving part 13 for receiving the request information which is the information on a request for delivery of an article; a stock information storage part 12 storing two or more stock information pieces which are information pieces related to the stock of articles in a storehouse; a moving cost information storage part 14 storing moving cost information which is the information related to the moving cost of the article to a delivery destination from the storehouse; an article attribute information storage part 15 storing an article attribute information which is the information related to the attribute of the article; a determination part 16 for making a decision on the delivery of articles for the request information according to the request information, the stock information, the moving cost information and the article attribute information; an article delivery information composition part 17 for composing the article delivery information which is the information on the delivery of the article according to the decision result of the determination part 16; and an output part 18 for outputting the article delivery information. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2006,JPO&NCIPI

Description

  The present invention relates to an article delivery information output device that outputs article delivery information, which is information relating to delivery of an article.

Conventionally, a predetermined system for managing inventory has been developed (see, for example, Patent Document 1).
Japanese Patent Publication No. 6-90709 (first page, FIG. 1 etc.)

  However, in the conventional system, in response to an article delivery request, only inventory allocation, article delivery, or the like is performed by determining whether there is inventory in the warehouse.

  The present invention has been made to solve the above-described problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide an article delivery information output device and the like that can output article delivery information for appropriately delivering articles. .

  In order to achieve the above object, an article delivery information output device according to the present invention includes two or more request information receiving units that receive request information that is information relating to delivery requests for articles, and two or more inventory information that is information relating to inventory of articles in a warehouse. A stock information storage unit that stores information, a travel cost information storage unit that stores travel cost information that is information on the travel cost of goods from the warehouse to the delivery destination, and product attribute information that is information about the attributes of the products. A stored article attribute information storage unit; a determination unit that determines a delivery of an article for the request information based on the request information, the inventory information, the movement cost information, and the article attribute information; and the determination unit Based on the result of the determination, the article delivery information component that constitutes the article delivery information, which is information related to the delivery of the article, and the article delivery information are output. Those having a power unit.

  With such a configuration, it is possible to output article delivery information for delivering an appropriate article in consideration of the cost of moving the article. Accordingly, by appropriately setting the movement cost information and the like, it is possible to avoid a situation in which a small amount of articles are delivered from a remote warehouse that requires movement costs. As a result, it is possible to reduce the movement cost related to the delivery of goods.

In the article delivery information output device according to the present invention, the movement cost information may be the same information for all articles.
With such a configuration, it is not necessary to set movement cost information for each article, and simple movement cost information can be obtained.

In the article delivery information output device according to the present invention, the movement cost information may be information for each article.
With such a configuration, the movement cost information can be set more finely, and the article delivery information in which the movement cost is more appropriately considered can be output.

In the article delivery information output device according to the present invention, the article attribute information may include a movement determination value that is a value used in the determination by the determination unit.
With such a configuration, for example, when the movement judgment value is used as a judgment threshold value in the judgment unit, by appropriately setting the movement judgment value, it is possible to select a warehouse that reflects the intention of the setter. Will be able to do.

In the article delivery information output device according to the present invention, the article delivery information may be information indicating a warehouse for delivering the article.
With such a configuration, for example, the user can transmit request information to the warehouse based on the article delivery information.

In the article delivery information output device according to the present invention, the article delivery information may be an instruction to deliver an article corresponding to the request information received by the request information receiving unit to a warehouse for delivering the article. .
With such a configuration, the delivery instruction of the article to the delivery destination is made to an appropriate warehouse without the user giving a separate instruction.

  According to the article delivery information output device and the like according to the present invention, it is possible to appropriately deliver articles and to reduce costs related to the delivery of articles.

(Embodiment 1)
An article delivery information output device according to Embodiment 1 of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a configuration of an article delivery information output device according to the present embodiment. In FIG. 1, an article delivery information output device according to the present embodiment includes an inventory information reception unit 11, an inventory information storage unit 12, a request information reception unit 13, a movement cost information storage unit 14, and an article attribute information storage unit. 15, a determination unit 16, an article delivery information configuration unit 17, and an output unit 18.

  The inventory information receiving unit 11 receives inventory information. Here, the inventory information is information regarding the inventory of articles stored in the warehouse. The inventory information indicates, for example, the number of inventory for each article in a certain warehouse. The warehouse may be a place for storing articles. For example, the warehouse may be a predetermined building, and if the articles produced in the factory are placed in the factory, the warehouse is the factory. Alternatively, it may be a predetermined area outside the building in which articles are stacked. The article is stored in a warehouse and is transported from the warehouse to another base. For example, the article may be a part used in production in a factory or a product produced in a factory. The inventory information received by the inventory information receiving unit 11 may be information for updating the inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12. For example, the inventory information received by the inventory information receiving unit 11 may be difference data with respect to the inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12. The inventory information receiving unit 11 may receive, for example, inventory information input from an input device (for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a touch panel, etc.), or may receive inventory information transmitted via a wired or wireless communication line. Alternatively, inventory information read from a predetermined recording medium (for example, an optical disk, a magnetic disk, a semiconductor memory, etc.) may be received. When the inventory information receiving unit 11 receives the transmitted inventory information via a communication line, for example, inventory information regarding a plurality of warehouses may be received in a batch, and the inventory information transmitted for each warehouse may be received. You may receive it. The transmission source of the inventory information may be, for example, a warehouse terminal device that exists in each warehouse, or may be a server that manages the inventory relating to all warehouses.

The inventory information storage unit 12 stores two or more inventory information. That is, the inventory information storage unit 12 stores inventory information of a plurality of warehouses. From this inventory information, the number of articles in each warehouse can be known. The inventory information storage unit 12 can be realized by a predetermined recording medium (for example, a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc.).

  The request information receiving unit 13 receives request information. Here, the request information is information related to a request for delivery of an article. The request information includes, for example, information for identifying an article for which delivery is requested, the quantity of the article, information for identifying a delivery destination to which the article is delivered, and the like. For example, the request information receiving unit 13 may receive request information input from an input device (for example, a keyboard, a mouse, a touch panel, etc.), or may receive request information transmitted via a wired or wireless communication line. Alternatively, request information read from a predetermined recording medium (for example, an optical disk, a magnetic disk, a semiconductor memory, etc.) may be received.

  The movement cost information storage unit 14 stores movement cost information. Here, the movement cost information is information related to the movement cost of the article from the warehouse to the delivery destination. This movement cost information may be the same information for all articles, or may be information for each article. That is, in the former case, for example, the movement cost from a certain warehouse to a certain delivery destination is indicated as a movement cost coefficient having the same value for all articles. In the latter case, for example, the movement cost from a certain warehouse to a certain delivery destination is indicated for each article (for example, the movement cost per article is 100 yen, and the article B is 1 The movement cost per piece is 500 yen). In the present embodiment, a case where the movement cost is indicated as a movement cost coefficient will be described. The movement cost information storage unit 14 can be realized by a predetermined recording medium (for example, a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc.).

  The article attribute information storage unit 15 stores article attribute information. Here, the article attribute information is information relating to the attribute of the article. This item attribute information includes, for example, the unit price of the item and a movement determination value that is a value used in determination by the determination unit 16 described later. The article attribute information storage unit 15 can be realized by a predetermined recording medium (for example, a semiconductor memory, a magnetic disk, an optical disk, etc.).

  Note that the arbitrary two or more storage units of the inventory information storage unit 12, the movement cost information storage unit 14, and the article attribute information storage unit 15 may be realized by the same recording medium or by different recording media. Also good. In the former case, for example, the area storing the inventory information is the inventory information storage unit 12, and the area storing the movement cost information is the movement cost information storage unit 14, and stores the item attribute information. The area becomes the article attribute information storage unit 15.

  The determination unit 16 includes request information received by the request information reception unit 13, inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12, movement cost information stored in the movement cost information storage unit 14, and article attribute information storage unit 15. Based on the article attribute information stored in the table, a determination is made regarding the delivery of the article for the request information. Here, the determination regarding the delivery of the article with respect to the request information may be, for example, determining for each warehouse whether the delivery of the article from each warehouse can be performed with respect to the request information. It may also be possible to determine a warehouse for delivering goods to. In the present embodiment, the former case will be described. Details of the determination process will be described later.

  The article delivery information configuration unit 17 configures article delivery information based on the determination result by the determination unit 16. Here, the article delivery information is information relating to the delivery of the article. For example, the article delivery information may be information indicating a warehouse to which the article can be delivered, and a warehouse terminal that manages a predetermined warehouse for delivering the article. It may be an instruction to deliver an article corresponding to the request information received by the request information receiving unit 13 to the device or the like. In the present embodiment, the former case will be described.

  The output unit 18 outputs the article delivery information configured by the article delivery information configuration unit 17. Here, the output may be, for example, display on a display device (for example, a CRT or a liquid crystal display), transmission via a communication line to a predetermined device, printing by a printer, or audio output by a speaker. However, it may be stored in a recording medium. The output unit 18 may or may not include an output device (for example, a display device or a printer). The output unit 18 may be realized by hardware, or may be realized by software such as a driver that drives these devices.

  Next, the operation of the article delivery information output device according to this embodiment will be described using the flowcharts of FIGS. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the operation of the article delivery information output device according to this embodiment.

  (Step S101) The request information receiving unit 13 determines whether request information has been received. If the request information is received, the received request information is passed to the determination unit 16 and the process proceeds to step S102. If not, the process of step S101 is repeated until the request information is received.

  (Step S <b> 102) The determination unit 16 makes a determination regarding the delivery of an article for the request information received from the request information reception unit 13. Then, the determination result is passed to the article delivery information configuration unit 17. Details of this determination processing will be described later.

  (Step S103) The article delivery information configuration unit 17 configures the article delivery information based on the determination result by the determination unit 16. Then, the configured article delivery information is passed to the output unit 18. Here, the configuration of the article delivery information may be to pass the determination result received from the determination unit 16 to the output unit 18 as it is, and a screen for displaying the determination result based on the determination result. It may be configured, or an instruction regarding delivery of an article may be generated based on a determination result.

(Step S <b> 104) The output unit 18 outputs the article delivery information received from the article delivery information configuration unit 17. Then, the process returns to step S101.
In the flowchart of FIG. 2, the process is terminated by powering off or a process termination interrupt.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining details of the process in step S102 of the flowchart of FIG.
(Step S201) The determination unit 16 acquires information for identifying a warehouse having a stock that satisfies the requirements of the request information received from the request information reception unit 13 from the stock information storage unit 12, and temporarily stores it in a recording medium (not shown). Remember. Details of this process will be described later.

(Step S202) The determination unit 16 acquires the item attribute information corresponding to the request information received from the request information reception unit 13 from the item attribute information storage unit 15, and temporarily stores it in a recording medium (not shown). The processing in step S202 is also performed in the same manner as detailed processing in step S201 described later, and detailed description of step S202 is omitted.
(Step S203) The determination unit 16 sets the counter I to “1”.

  (Step S204) The determination unit 16 acquires, from the movement cost information storage unit 14, movement cost information corresponding to the information for identifying the I-th warehouse temporarily stored in Step S201.

  (Step S205) The determination unit 16 determines whether or not the warehouse identified by the temporarily stored information for identifying the I-th warehouse satisfies the condition for delivering the article to the delivery destination. And when it has satisfied, it progresses to step S206, and when that is not right, it progresses to step S207.

  (Step S <b> 206) The determination unit 16 temporarily stores information for identifying the I-th warehouse that is temporarily stored in a predetermined recording medium in order to pass the information to the article delivery information configuration unit 17. This storage may be to set a flag in association with information for identifying the I-th warehouse in the recording medium stored in step S201.

(Step S207) The determination unit 16 determines whether the information for identifying the I-th warehouse is the last one in the information for identifying the temporarily stored warehouse. If it is the last time, the process proceeds to step S209. If not, the process proceeds to step S208.
(Step S208) The determination unit 16 increments the counter I by 1. Then, the process returns to step S204.

  (Step S209) The determination unit 16 passes the information for identifying the warehouse temporarily stored in Step S206 to the article delivery information configuration unit 17. If the temporary storage in step S206 is not performed at all, for example, the fact that there is no inventory information that satisfies the condition may be passed to the article delivery information configuration unit 17, or null (empty) information is passed. May be.

  In the flowchart of FIG. 3, a case has been described in which information for identifying a warehouse is temporarily stored (step S206) and then collectively delivered to the article delivery information configuration unit 17. The information for identifying the warehouse may be passed to the article delivery information constituting unit 17, and in step S209, the fact that the determination process has been completed may be passed to the article delivery information constituting unit 17.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart for explaining details of the process in step S201 of the flowchart of FIG. In the description of this flowchart, it is assumed that the request information includes at least information indicating an article and the quantity of the article. In addition, in the inventory information, information for identifying an article for each record and the number of inventory are defined.

(Step S301) The determination unit 16 sets the counter J to “1”.
(Step S <b> 302) The determination unit 16 determines whether the article in the J-th record of the inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12 is the article indicated by the request information received from the request information receiving unit 13. If the article in the Jth record is the article indicated by the request information, the process proceeds to step S302. If not, the process proceeds to step S306.

  (Step S303) The determination unit 16 determines whether or not the inventory quantity of the J-th record of the inventory information is greater than or equal to the quantity indicated by the request information. If the inventory number of the Jth record is greater than or equal to the quantity indicated by the request information, the process proceeds to step S304, and if not, the process proceeds to step S306.

(Step S304) The determination unit 16 acquires information for identifying a warehouse corresponding to the Jth record of the inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12.
(Step S305) The determination unit 16 temporarily stores information for identifying the warehouse acquired in Step S304 in a recording medium (not shown).

(Step S306) The determination unit 16 determines whether or not the Jth record is the last record of the inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12. If it is the last record, the process ends. If not, the process proceeds to step S307.
(Step S307) The determination unit 16 increments the counter J by one. Then, the process returns to step S302.

  Here, the operation of the inventory information receiving unit 11 will be briefly described. When the inventory information reception unit 11 receives the inventory information, the inventory information reception unit 11 accumulates the received inventory information in the inventory information storage unit 12. In addition, when the inventory information received by the inventory information receiving unit 11 is the difference information of the inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12, the inventory information storage unit 12 is based on the difference information or the like. The inventory information stored in is updated.

  Next, the operation of the article delivery information output device according to this embodiment will be described using a specific example. In this specific example, it is assumed that the article delivery information output device constitutes the system shown in FIG. The system shown in FIG. 5 includes an article delivery information output device 1 and two or more warehouse terminal devices 2 connected to each other via a wired or wireless communication line 3. The article delivery information output device 1 in this specific example is assumed to be a PC (Personal Computer). The warehouse terminal apparatus 2 is an information processing apparatus associated with each warehouse, and inventory information indicating the inventory status of each warehouse is periodically sent to the article delivery information output apparatus 1 or a predetermined event (for example, article delivery). It is assumed that the transmission is triggered by the receipt of the transmission request for the inventory information transmitted from the information output device 1). The communication line 3 is, for example, a public line, the Internet, an intranet, or the like.

  FIG. 6 is a diagram illustrating an example of inventory information transmitted from the warehouse terminal device 2. In FIG. 6, the inventory information includes a warehouse code that is information for identifying a warehouse in which inventory is stored, a product number code that is information for identifying an article stored in the warehouse, and the inventory number of the article. It is included. When the inventory information receiving unit 11 receives the inventory information, the inventory information is accumulated in the inventory information storage unit 12. FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12. The inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12 also includes a warehouse code, a product number code, and an inventory quantity.

  FIG. 8 is a diagram illustrating an example of travel cost information stored in the travel cost information storage unit 14. In FIG. 8, in the movement cost information, the movement cost coefficient is shown in association with the warehouse code and the delivery destination code that is information for identifying the delivery destination of the article. The movement cost coefficient is a numerical value that takes one of the values from 0 to 1. The movement cost coefficient indicates the movement cost from the warehouse identified by the warehouse code to the delivery destination identified by the delivery destination code. Indicated. FIG. 9 is a diagram for explaining the concept of the movement cost coefficient. In the moving cost information of FIG. 8, the delivery destination identified by the delivery destination code “C002” from the warehouse identified by the warehouse code “A001” (hereinafter referred to as “warehouse A001”; the same applies to other warehouse codes). (Hereinafter referred to as “delivery destination C002”, the same applies to other delivery destination codes), the movement cost coefficient is “0.4”, and the movement cost coefficient between the warehouse A002 and the delivery destination C002 is “0. 1 ”. As shown in FIG. 9, this indicates that the warehouse A002 is closer to the delivery destination C002 than the warehouse A001, and the cost for moving the goods is lower. This moving cost coefficient is generally determined by the distance between the warehouse and the delivery destination, but may be set in consideration of the actual physical distribution cost or the like depending on the case. For example, when there is no low-cost transportation means even if the distance is short, or when only a detour can be moved, the moving cost coefficient may be set to a high value according to such a situation. .

FIG. 10 is a diagram illustrating an example of article attribute information stored in the article attribute information storage unit 15. In FIG. 10, in the article attribute information, the article number code associates the unit price of the article identified by the article number code with the movement determination value that is a threshold value used in the determination in the determination unit 16. .

  It is assumed that a user operating the article delivery information output device 1 first activates a screen for inputting an article delivery request and displays the article delivery request screen on the display. Then, by operating a keyboard, a mouse, or the like, as shown in FIG. 11, the article identified by the article number code “B001” (hereinafter “article B001”) is identified with respect to the delivery destination of the delivery destination code “C002”. Assume that an article delivery request indicating that “100” pieces are to be delivered is input for the other part number codes. When the user operates the mouse and clicks the “OK” button, the request information receiving unit 13 delivers “100” articles with the product number code “B001” to the delivery destination with the delivery destination code “C002”. Request information to that effect is received and passed to the determination unit 16 (step S101).

  The determination unit 16 refers to the inventory information shown in FIG. 7 for the request information, and records (in FIG. 7) the product code is B001 (step S302) and the inventory quantity is 100 or more (step S303). Warehouse codes “A001”, “A002”, and “A003”, which are information for identifying the warehouse, are acquired from the first to third records) (step S304) and temporarily stored (step S305).

  Further, the determination unit 16 refers to the item attribute information shown in FIG. 10 and acquires the unit price “3000 (yen)” and the movement determination value “200000” corresponding to the item B001 indicated by the request information, and temporarily (Step S202).

Next, the determination unit 16 refers to the movement cost information shown in FIG. 8, the movement cost coefficient corresponding to the warehouse code “A001”, that is, the warehouse code “A001”, and the delivery destination code “ The movement cost coefficient “0.4” specified by “C002” is acquired (step S204). The determination unit 16 calculates a determination calculation value based on the movement cost coefficient or the like. This judgment calculation value is
Judgment calculation value = (unit price × quantity of goods) − (movement cost) (Equation 1)
This is the value indicated by. Here, the movement cost is
Moving cost = Unit price x Quantity of goods x Moving cost coefficient (Formula 2)
It is. Therefore, in the case of the warehouse A001, the judgment calculation value is “180000”. If the determination calculation value is smaller than the movement determination value acquired in step S202, the determination unit 16 determines that the condition is not satisfied (step S205). Therefore, the determination unit 16 performs processing related to the next warehouse A002 (steps S207 and S208).

  The determination unit 16 acquires the movement cost coefficient “0.1” corresponding to the warehouse code “A002” (step S204). In addition, the calculated calculation value “270000” is calculated using the above formula. Since this determination calculation value is equal to or greater than the movement determination value “200000”, it is determined that the warehouse “A002” satisfies the condition for delivering the article B001 to the delivery destination C002, and the warehouse code A002 is temporarily stored (step) S206). Similarly, since the calculated calculation value “210000” regarding the warehouse code A003 is also equal to or greater than the movement determination value “200000” (steps S204 and S205), the warehouse code A003 is also temporarily stored (step S206). The determination unit 16 passes the temporarily stored warehouse codes “A002” and “A003” and the determination calculation values “270000” and “210000” corresponding to the respective warehouse codes to the article delivery information configuration unit 17.

Then, the article delivery information configuration unit 17 arranges the warehouse codes in descending order of the judgment calculation values, and configures article delivery information for displaying the warehouse codes in that order. Then, the configured article delivery information is passed to the output unit 18 (step S103). The output unit 18 displays the article delivery information received from the article delivery information configuration unit 17 on the display (step S104).

  FIG. 12 is a diagram showing an example of the display. In the display of FIG. 12, when the user operates the mouse to select a warehouse using the left radio button and clicks the “Send Delivery Request” button, an instruction to send request information to the warehouse A002 is not shown. The request information received by the request information receiving unit 13 is transmitted to the warehouse terminal device 2 of the warehouse A002 by a transmission unit (not shown). In this way, the article delivery information for the accepted request information is output. In this display, the determination calculation value may also be displayed in association with the warehouse code in order to serve as a reference for selection by the user. Further, instead of displaying the warehouse code, the name of the area where the warehouse is located or the name of the warehouse may be displayed.

  Here, when the request information is transmitted to the warehouse terminal device 2, the inventory of the warehouse is considered to fluctuate due to the delivery of the article from the warehouse to the delivery destination. It is assumed that inventory information is transmitted again from the warehouse terminal device 2 and the inventory information stored in the inventory information storage unit 12 is updated with the inventory information.

  In this specific example, the case where there is a warehouse that satisfies the condition has been described. However, if there is no warehouse that satisfies the condition, the article delivery information configuration unit 17 configures and outputs the article delivery information indicating that fact. As shown in FIG. 13, the unit 18 displays article delivery information indicating that there is no corresponding warehouse.

  Further, in this specific example, the case where request information can be transmitted from the displayed article delivery information to the warehouse terminal device 2 has been described. However, this is an example, and the user who viewed the article delivery information The delivery request for the article may be made by another means (for example, another device that transmits the request information, a telephone, a FAX, or the like).

  In addition, in this specific example, the case has been described where article delivery information including all warehouses satisfying the condition is output, but among the warehouses satisfying the condition, the article delivery including only the warehouse with the largest judgment calculation value. Information may be output. In this case, the request information may be transmitted to the warehouse terminal device 2 of the warehouse corresponding to the largest calculated calculation value without waiting for an instruction from the user.

  Further, in this specific example, the case has been described in which the article delivery information is configured so that the warehouses that can be delivered are rearranged in descending order of the judgment calculation values, but such rearrangement may not be performed.

  As described above, according to the article delivery information output device according to the present embodiment, the article delivery information for delivering an appropriate article considering the moving cost of the article by using the movement cost information and the article attribute information. Can be output. Therefore, by appropriately setting the movement determination value, it is possible to avoid a situation in which a small amount of articles are delivered from a remote warehouse that requires movement costs. For example, in the case of the above specific example, the article B001 can be delivered to the delivery destination C002 in the case of the warehouse A002 with a low movement cost. In the case of the high warehouse A001, it is not possible to deliver unless there are 112 or more. As a result, it is possible to reduce the movement cost related to the delivery of goods.

Note that the movement determination value, which is a threshold value used at the time of determination, is set in consideration of the profit rate per item. In addition, the delivery form of the article can be changed by appropriately raising and lowering the movement determination value. For example, if you want to deliver from any warehouse, set the movement judgment value to “0”, so even if it is a single delivery or a delivery from a remote warehouse. Even if there is, the delivery of goods will be performed. On the other hand, by setting the movement judgment value to a high value, it is possible to deliver only a certain quantity of a certain quantity.

  Further, in the present embodiment, even when a certain warehouse does not have enough inventory to satisfy the quantity of articles required by the request information, it is possible to deliver as many articles as the number of inventory in that warehouse. If it is determined by the determination unit 16 that it is possible, the article delivery information may be configured and output so as to be delivered from the warehouse. In this case, the goods are delivered from two or more warehouses.

  Specifically, in step S303 of the flowchart of FIG. 4, it is determined whether or not “Jth inventory quantity” is greater than 0. If “Jth inventory quantity> 0”, the process proceeds to step S304, and so on. If not, the process proceeds to step S306. Then, in step S205 of the flowchart of FIG. 3, whether or not the I-th warehouse satisfies the condition is determined by the smaller quantity of the inventory quantity of the I-th warehouse and the quantity of articles requested by the request information. The determination may be made according to the above. That is, if the number of stocks in the I-th warehouse is smaller than the quantity of articles requested by the request information, the inventory of the warehouse is obtained as the “quantity of articles” in the above (Formula 1) and (Formula 2). A number may be substituted. As described above, the determination regarding the delivery of the article with respect to the request information made by the determination unit 16 may be a determination within a range that can be delivered. Request information corresponding to the stock in each warehouse may be transmitted to the warehouse terminal device or the like in each warehouse based on the article delivery information output based on such determination. The request information in this case may be different from that received by the request information receiving unit 13. For example, the number of articles included in the request information transmitted to each warehouse terminal device may be different from the number of articles included in the request information received by the request information receiving unit 13. Further, the article delivery information configuration unit 17 configures two or more instructions to deliver articles according to the stock status of each warehouse, and the two or more instructions corresponding to the two or more instructions are respectively output by the output unit 18. It may be transmitted to a warehouse terminal device or the like.

  By doing this, even if the warehouse does not have enough inventory to meet the quantity of goods required by the request information, if the merit for moving costs is high, the goods should be delivered from that warehouse. Can be done.

(Embodiment 2)
An article delivery information output device according to Embodiment 2 of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The article delivery information output device according to the present embodiment terminates the determination process when one warehouse that satisfies the conditions related to the delivery of articles is found. It is assumed that the configuration of the article delivery information output device according to the present embodiment is the same as that shown in FIG. The operation of the article delivery information output device according to the present embodiment is also the same as that in FIG. However, the details of the processing in step S102 are shown in FIG. In the flowchart of FIG. 14, processes other than steps S401 and S402 are the same as those of the flowchart of FIG.

(Step S <b> 401) The determination unit 16 passes information for identifying the I-th warehouse to the article delivery information configuration unit 17.
(Step S <b> 402) The determination unit 16 passes to the article delivery information configuration unit 17 that there is no stock corresponding to the request information in each warehouse.

  In the flowchart shown in FIG. 14, as described above, when one warehouse satisfying the conditions related to the delivery of goods is found (step S <b> 205), the determination process is terminated at that time.

  The specific example in the present embodiment is the same as that in the first embodiment except that only one warehouse code is passed from the determination unit 16 to the article delivery information configuration unit 17, and the description thereof is omitted.

  As described above, according to the article delivery information output device according to the present embodiment, as in the article delivery information output device according to the first embodiment, it is possible to determine the warehouse of the article delivery source in consideration of the movement cost. it can. In addition, even if multiple warehouses satisfy the conditions related to the delivery of goods, it can be determined as one warehouse, so the request to the warehouse terminal device of that warehouse can be made without accepting selection from the user. The request information received by the information receiving unit 13 can also be transmitted.

  In the specific example of each of the embodiments described above, the article delivery information output device 1 has been described as receiving request information input from an input device such as a keyboard. However, as shown in FIG. The output device 1 may accept the request information transmitted from the information terminal device 4 via a wired or wireless communication line 5. The communication line 5 may be the same as the communication line 3. The communication line 5 is, for example, a public line, the Internet, an intranet, or a LAN connected with a plurality of PCs.

In each of the above embodiments, the case where the movement cost information is a movement cost coefficient has been described. However, the movement cost information may be the cost of the movement cost determined for each article as described above. . For example, as shown in FIG. 16, movement cost information (FIG. 16 (a)) for an article with a product number code B001 and movement cost information (FIG. 16 (b)) for an article with a product number code B002 are respectively defined. May be. By determining the movement cost for each article in this way, it is possible to move an article whose unit price and movement cost are not linked, such as an article with a high unit price but low movement cost, or an article with a low unit price but high movement cost. Judgment that considers costs can be made more appropriately. Here, in the case of using the movement cost information shown in FIG.
It is assumed that the movement cost is calculated by the equation of movement cost = quantity of article × movement cost.

  In addition, although the case where the movement cost is proportional to the quantity of articles has been described, the movement cost may be determined for each width of the quantity of articles. For example, in the moving cost information, the moving cost may be set to 10,000 yen when the number of articles is 1 to 100, and the moving cost may be set to 20000 yen when the number of articles is 101 to 500.

  Further, in each of the embodiments described above, the case where request information is transmitted from the article delivery information output device to the warehouse terminal device has been described. It may be a managed server or the like.

  In each of the above embodiments, each process (each function) may be realized by centralized processing by a single device (system), or by distributed processing by a plurality of devices. May be.

In each of the above embodiments, each component may be configured by dedicated hardware, or a component that can be realized by software may be realized by executing a program. For example, each component can be realized by a program execution unit such as a CPU reading and executing a software program recorded on a recording medium such as a hard disk or a semiconductor memory. The software that realizes the information processing apparatus in each of the above embodiments is a program as described below. That is, the program includes a request information receiving step for receiving request information that is information relating to a delivery request for an article, and the request information, inventory information that is information relating to inventory of the article in the warehouse, and information from the warehouse to the delivery destination. Based on the movement cost information, which is information related to the movement cost of the article, and the article attribute information, which is information related to the attribute of the article, a determination step for determining the delivery of the article with respect to the request information, and a determination result based on the determination step An article delivery information composing step that constitutes article delivery information, which is information relating to the delivery of the article, and an output step for outputting the article delivery information are executed.

  In the above program, in the reception step for receiving information, the output step for outputting information, etc., processing performed by hardware, for example, processing performed by a modem or an interface card in the output step (only performed by hardware). Not included).

  Further, this program may be executed by being downloaded from a server or the like, and a program recorded on a predetermined recording medium (for example, an optical disk such as a CD-ROM, a magnetic disk, a semiconductor memory, or the like) is read out. May be executed by

Further, the computer that executes this program may be singular or plural. That is, centralized processing may be performed, or distributed processing may be performed.
Further, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiment, and various modifications are possible, and it goes without saying that these are also included in the scope of the present invention.

  As described above, the article delivery information configuration unit or the like according to the present invention can output article delivery information for enabling proper delivery of articles in consideration of movement costs. This is useful in a system for managing inventory.

The block diagram which shows the structure of the goods delivery information output device by Embodiment 1 of this invention. The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the goods delivery information output device by the embodiment The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the goods delivery information output device by the embodiment The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the goods delivery information output device by the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the system containing the article delivery information output device by the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the inventory information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the inventory information in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the movement cost information in the embodiment The figure for demonstrating the movement cost coefficient in the same embodiment The figure which shows an example of the article attribute information in the embodiment The schematic diagram which shows an example of the external appearance of the goods delivery information output device by the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the display in the embodiment The figure which shows an example of the display in the embodiment The flowchart which shows operation | movement of the goods delivery information output device by Embodiment 2 of this invention. The figure which shows another example of the system containing an article delivery information output device The figure which shows an example of the movement cost information in the embodiment

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Article delivery information output device 11 Inventory information reception part 12 Inventory information storage part 13 Request information reception part 14 Movement cost information storage part 15 Article attribute information storage part 16 Judgment part 17 Article delivery information structure part 18 Output part

Claims (9)

A request information receiving unit that receives request information that is information relating to a request for delivery of an article;
An inventory information storage unit storing at least two pieces of inventory information that is information relating to inventory of articles in a warehouse;
A travel cost information storage unit that stores travel cost information that is information related to the travel cost of goods from the warehouse to the delivery destination;
An article attribute information storage unit storing article attribute information which is information relating to the attribute of the article;
A determination unit configured to determine a delivery of an article for the request information based on the request information, the inventory information, the movement cost information, and the article attribute information;
Based on the determination result by the determination unit, an article delivery information constituting unit constituting article delivery information, which is information related to delivery of the article,
An article delivery information output device comprising: an output unit that outputs the article delivery information. The article delivery information output device according to claim 1, wherein the movement cost information is the same information for all articles. The article delivery information output device according to claim 1, wherein the movement cost information is information for each article. 4. The article delivery information output device according to claim 1, wherein the article attribute information is information including a unit price of the article. The article delivery information output device according to claim 1, wherein the article attribute information includes a movement judgment value that is a value used in judgment by the judgment unit. 6. The article delivery information output device according to claim 1, wherein the article delivery information is information indicating a warehouse for delivering an article. The article delivery information output according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein the article delivery information is an instruction to deliver an article corresponding to the request information received by the request information receiving unit to a warehouse for delivering the article. apparatus. A request information receiving step for receiving request information which is information related to a request for delivery of an article;
Based on the request information, inventory information that is information related to inventory of goods in a warehouse, movement cost information that is information related to movement costs of goods from the warehouse to a delivery destination, and item attribute information that is information related to attributes of the goods A decision step for making a decision on delivery of goods for information;
Based on the determination result of the determination step, an article delivery information constituting step that constitutes article delivery information that is information related to the delivery of the article;
An article delivery information output method comprising: an output step of outputting the article delivery information. On the computer,
A request information receiving step for receiving request information which is information related to a request for delivery of an article;
Based on the request information, inventory information that is information related to inventory of goods in a warehouse, movement cost information that is information related to movement costs of goods from the warehouse to a delivery destination, and item attribute information that is information related to attributes of the goods A decision step for making a decision on delivery of goods for information;
Based on the determination result of the determination step, an article delivery information constituting step that constitutes article delivery information that is information related to the delivery of the article;
An output step of outputting the article delivery information.

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