JP2009193389A - Distribution management method of semiconductor device - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To significantly improve efficiency in inventory management, shipping work and desk work such as slip processing accompanying product shipment in various kinds of semiconductor device products. <P>SOLUTION: When order information received by a sales representative of a sales division is input, a sales division order/shipping system 6 transmits result data to a head office order/shipping system 9, and the head office order/shipping system 9 registers the order reception of a head office on the basis of a sales division SO and instructs shipping to a head office warehouse management system 10 according to the delivery date of a head office TO. By the shipping instruction, the head office warehouse management system 10 instructs shipping work and records a shipping result to the head office warehouse management system 10 after direct shipment. A head office inventory management system 8 subtracts inventory and records the sales of the head office TO on the basis of shipping result information. The sales division order/ shipping system 6 registers the order of the sales division based on the shipping result information. The sales division order / shipping system 6 automatically records delivery with respect to the sales division PO of a previous process. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2009,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to semiconductor device inventory management technology, and more particularly, to a technology effective for semiconductor device inventory management, shipping work, and efficiency of slip processing.

  2. Description of the Related Art In recent years, product distribution management systems that perform ordering and distribution management of semiconductor devices using a network such as the Internet have become widespread.

  Hereinafter, an example of a distribution pattern of a semiconductor device using this type of system studied by the present inventor will be described.

  This type of system includes, for example, a sales company ordering / shipping system provided in a company that sells each semiconductor device (hereinafter referred to as “sales company”), and a company that manufactures semiconductor devices (hereinafter referred to as “head office”). The head office ordering / shipping system provided in When there is an order from the customer to the sales company, the order information is registered in the sales company ordering / shipping system from the sales company.

  The order information is transmitted to the head office ordering / shipping system via the Internet line or the dedicated line. Thereby, the head office order is registered, a shipping instruction is issued, and a shipping slip is created.

  Based on this shipping instruction, shipping work is performed in the warehouse of the head office. When the shipment is completed, the shipping confirmation by the head office ordering / shipping system is performed, and the head office order is sold. Further, after confirming the delivery, the head office ordering / shipping system transmits information of the delivery confirmation to the sales company ordering / shipping system.

  When the sales company ordering / shipping system receives the information of the delivery confirmation of the head office, it generates the sales company order. The product delivered from the warehouse at the head office is sent to the customer via the warehouse at the sales company, and sales are put into practice at the same time as the receipt (delivery) to the customer.

  However, the present inventors have found that there are the following problems in the management technology such as product inventory and logistics by the product distribution management system as described above.

  In other words, there are at least two “stock points” to temporarily store inventory from factory shipment to customer delivery, the headquarters warehouse managed by product units and the sales company warehouse managed by similar units, The inventory that exists at that 'inventory point' is produced based on demand forecasts, stock-stored in product units, and it is unclear whether it is the inventory for 'which customer' that will ultimately be delivered. There is a problem that even if a sales person who performs demand prediction for each customer generates unnecessary inventory, the reason why the inventory is generated cannot be clarified.

  In addition, when customer demand declines or when inventory shortages occur for other customers' demand forecasts, surplus inventory occurs. Since it is unclear whether the stock is created for ', it will be difficult to allocate it by taking into account the demand forecasts and stock of all the commercial flows linked to the sales company.

  Furthermore, since the manager of each 'stock point' holds the safety stock, the safety stock is held twice at each 'stock point', resulting in a problem that inventory efficiency is lowered.

  In addition, in the shipment work of each “stock point”, it is not managed from which customer (or sales company) the stock at “stock point” is generated based on the demand forecast. Is difficult.

  Therefore, the inventory based on the demand forecast of the original customer (or sales company) that is the basis of the inventory generation will be used for the demand of other companies, and the original customer (or sales company) will be used. There is a possibility that the inventory is insufficient and the delivery date cannot be kept.

  To avoid this, when each 'inventory point' manager makes a demand forecast for each customer so that there is no shortage of inventory, the psychology of generating extra safety stock works, which causes excess distribution inventory Become.

  In addition, when the inventory based on the demand forecast of the original customer is used for the demand of the other company and shipped, it is necessary to ship it through adjustment work between each person in charge.

  Furthermore, in the voucher processing work, if it is necessary to change the price at the time of order due to changes in market conditions, etc., it will be shipped to the sales company at the price after the change. There will be an operation to place an order for price correction and to accept the order again at the head office.

  An object of the present invention is to provide a technique capable of greatly improving the efficiency of business processing such as inventory management, shipping work, and slip processing accompanying product shipment in a plurality of types of semiconductor device products.

  The above and other objects and novel features of the present invention will be apparent from the description of this specification and the accompanying drawings.

  Of the inventions disclosed in the present application, the outline of typical ones will be briefly described as follows.

  According to the semiconductor device distribution management method of the present invention, the head office ordering / shipping system automatically stores the head office order information on a one-to-one basis based on the input order information from the sales company. According to the delivery date of the information, the head office ordering / shipping system directs the headquarters warehouse management system to send the corresponding product directly to the customer, and the headquarters warehouse management system directs the customer to the customer based on the shipping instruction. When the shipment is completed, a step of sending shipment result information indicating that the product has been shipped, a step in which the sales ordering / shipping system orders and registers the sales order information based on the shipment result information, The shipping system has a step of recording the receipt for the sales company ordering information.

  Moreover, the outline | summary of the other invention of this application is shown briefly.

  According to the semiconductor device distribution management method of the present invention, the demand prediction / response system corrects the demand prediction based on the sales company order information, and performs a netting process based on the demand prediction data, inventory, in-process information, and the like. From the result of the netting process by the answer / response system, the demand forecast / answer system generates a firm order, the head office ordering / shipping system receives an order as headquarter order information based on the firm order, and the head office ordering / shipping The system issues a shipping instruction to the headquarters warehouse management system to ship the corresponding product to the sales company warehouse according to the delivery date of the headquarters order information, and the shipment result information is sent to the headquarters warehouse when the product shipment to the sales company warehouse is completed. Based on the steps recorded in the management system and the shipment history information, the head office inventory management system Subtraction, and the step of performing a sales recording head office orders, sales company ordering / delivery system, based on the shipment record information, in which a step of ordering registering sales company ordering information.

  The semiconductor device distribution management method according to the present invention includes a step in which the headquarters warehouse management system receives and records the products received in the headquarters warehouse, and the headquarters inventory management system is based on the delivery date of the confirmed order and customer information. , The step of transferring the stock from the managed stock by product toward the logical stock by customer, and the head office ordering / shipping system manages the headquarters order shipping instructions based on the delivery date of the headquarter order information and the reply delivery date. Based on the shipment performance information output to the head office ordering / shipping system when the products are shipped to the customer based on the steps to be taken to the system and the shipping instructions, the head office inventory management system deducts the inventory, and the head office Steps for recording sales of order information and steps for ordering and registering sales order information by sales company ordering / shipping system based on shipment result information For dealer ordering information, in which the dealer inventory management system and a step record the goods receipt.

  Furthermore, the semiconductor device distribution management method according to the present invention includes a step in which the headquarters warehouse management system receives and records the products received in the headquarters warehouse, and the headquarters inventory management system is based on the delivery date of the confirmed order and customer information. , The step of transferring the stock from the managed stock by product to the logical stock by customer, the step that the head office ordering / shipping system links to the stock transfer by order confirmation, and the shipping order of the head office order information Based on this, the head office warehouse management system performs a shipping instruction for shipping the corresponding product to the sales company warehouse, and when the shipment of the product to the sales company warehouse is completed based on the shipping instruction, the head office warehouse management system Based on the shipment actual information step and the shipment actual information, the head office inventory management system deducts the inventory and sales of the head office order information. Based on the shipping step information, the sales company ordering / shipping system processes the order registration of the sales company ordering information, and when the product arrives at the sales company warehouse, the sales company warehouse management system processes the receipt data. Then, based on the receipt recording data, the step of recording as a logical inventory by customer of the sales company, the step where the sales ordering / shipment system receives the receipt as a sales order based on the receipt recording data, and the delivery date of the sales order information Based on the delivery date and the answer delivery date, the sales order / ordering system of the sales company issues a shipping instruction for the order received by the sales company, and the sales company warehouse management system manages the sales company warehouse of the sales company warehouse based on the shipping instruction of the sales order / ordering / shipping system. Steps for shipping instructions to the system, steps for outputting shipping record information when product shipment to the customer is completed, and shipping record information Zui, the dealer inventory management system subtracts inventory, and those having a sales record step of dealer orders.

  The semiconductor device distribution management method according to the present invention reflects the received sales order data including the received customer order results, customer order remnants, shipping results, inventory, etc. in the accumulated data, and the demand prediction / response system performs processing. When the demand forecast / response system has received a pre-delivery from the customer order correction of the purchase sales data or the shipment data of the purchase sales data with respect to the input demand forecast. A step of generating correction demand forecast data, a step of the demand prediction / response system receiving the inventory in the head office warehouse from the head office warehouse management system, and separating the inventory into the head office management and the sales company management inventory; The demand forecast / response system performs netting processing for the corrected demand forecast data, taking into account the inventory of the sales company management inventory and the inventory data of the purchaser. And the demand forecast / response system separates the headquarter shipment request into and out of the in-doubt order generation period based on the in-doubt order generation period master and the demand When the forecast / answer system is in the firm order and the customer order is supported, the demand forecast / answer system merges the firm order, the firm order, and the headquarters shipment request balance. Final SF (Final Demand Forecast), the step of assigning a separate headquarters managed inventory to the FinalSF, and the demand forecast / answer system for the FinalSF allocated to the headquarters managed inventory Is not allocated to the headquarters management inventory at FinalSF. Based on the in-process data for the number of production requests, the step of allocating in-process, and the supply and demand adjustment system sends the FinalSF with the scheduled receipt date, and the demand forecast / response system is about the receipt-based response , Acquiring a warehouse work period from the head office warehouse work period master and re-baking it to the shipping base.

  Among the inventions disclosed in the present application, effects obtained by typical ones will be briefly described as follows.

  (1) It is possible to manage sales company inventory without moving physical products in the head office warehouse or between the head office warehouse and the sales company warehouse.

  (2) Further, it is possible to automatically perform the shipping instruction work only to the original customer whose inventory is generated by the demand prediction.

  (3) Further, it is possible to reduce the order slip registration work at the sales company and the like, the order accompanying the price correction, and the slip correction work on the order receiving side.

  Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. Note that components having the same function are denoted by the same reference symbols throughout the drawings for describing the embodiment, and the repetitive description thereof will be omitted.

  FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of a product distribution management system according to an embodiment of the present invention. FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing an example of simplification processing of slip processing in pattern 1 by the product distribution management system of FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of the simplification process of the slip process in the pattern 2 by the product distribution management system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 4 shows an example of the simplification process of the slip process in the pattern 3 by the product distribution management system of FIG. FIG. 5 is an explanatory view of the slip processing at the head office by the product distribution management system of FIG. 1, FIG. 6 is an explanatory view of the slip processing of the sales company by the product distribution management system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 7 is the product of FIG. FIG. 8 is a flowchart showing an example of distribution inventory reduction by the distribution management system, and FIG. 8 is an inventory control of the head office inventory by the product distribution management system of FIG. FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of automatic shipping in the process of step S417 in FIG. 7, FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of CO shipment by the product distribution management system in FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 12 is a flowchart showing an example of the efficiency of product shipping operations in pattern 1 by the product distribution management system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 12 is an example of the efficiency of product shipping operations in pattern 2 by the product distribution management system of FIG. FIG. 13 is a flowchart showing an example of the efficiency of product shipping operations in pattern 3 by the product distribution management system of FIG. 1, and FIG. 14 is a shipping procedure of customer-specific logical inventory by the product distribution management system of FIG. FIG. 15 is a flowchart showing an example of processing for optimal distribution of inventory and work in progress by the product distribution management system of FIG. 1, and FIG. FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing an example of processing between customers of the sales company management stock by the product distribution management system of FIG. 1, FIG. FIG. 18 is an explanatory diagram of the customer-specific shipping frame interchange for exchanging the shipping frame after the inventory interchange by the product distribution management system of FIG.

  In the present embodiment, as shown in FIG. 1, the product distribution management system 1 includes an order / shipment unit 2, a demand prediction / delivery date response unit 3, and a demand prediction / response system 4. The order / shipping department 2 includes a sales company inventory management system 5, a sales company ordering / shipping system 6, a sales company warehouse management system 7, a head office inventory management system 8, a head office ordering / shipping system 9, and a head office warehouse management system 10. Manages orders for products such as semiconductor devices and product shipments.

  The sales company inventory management system 5, the sales company ordering / shipping system 6, and the sales company warehouse management system 7 are provided for each sales company (sales company), and are connected to the terminals of each sales company via an Internet line or a dedicated line. Each is connected.

  The demand prediction / delivery date answering unit 3 includes a supply and demand adjustment system 11, a production instruction / answering system 12, and an in-process management system 13. The demand forecast / delivery date answering unit 3 predicts demand from order information and shipment information from the order / shipment unit 2, and delivers the delivery date. To answer. Further, the demand prediction / answer system 4 manages all the controls in the product distribution management system 1.

  Further, there are the following three patterns in the commercial distribution pattern.

  Pattern 1 is a pattern in which a slip flows from the customer to the sales company and the head office, and the product is conveyed (directly sent) from the head office to the customer.

  Pattern 2 is a pattern in which a slip flows from the customer to the sales company and the head office, and the product is delivered from the head office to the sales company and then delivered to the customer.

  The pattern 3 is a pattern in which a slip flows from the customer to the head office after passing through the dealer and the sales company, the product is conveyed from the head office to the dealer, and then delivered from the dealer to the customer.

  Next, the operation of the product distribution management system 1 according to this embodiment will be described.

  First, a slip processing simplification technique will be described with reference to flowcharts in FIGS.

  FIG. 2 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the simplification process of the slip process according to the pattern 1.

  First, order information (hereinafter referred to as a sales company SO (Sales Order)) received by the sales company is input to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 based on an order received from the customer by the sales company sales (step S101).

  When the sales company SO is input, the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 transmits the actual data (remaining ordering information, sales performance information, etc.) to the head office ordering / shipping system 9 (step S102). Here, since the distribution of the pattern 1 is direct delivery to the customer, the head office ordering / shipping system 9 automatically receives a head office order (hereinafter referred to as the head office TO (Transfer Order)) based on the sales company SO. An order is registered (step S103).

  In this way, by directly generating the sales company SO and the head office TO, it is possible to ship directly from the head office to the customer with the same contents as the sales company SO.

  Subsequently, the head office ordering / shipping system 9 issues a shipping instruction to the head office warehouse management system 10 in accordance with the delivery date of the head office TO (= delivery date of the sales company SO) (step S104). In the head office warehouse management system 10, based on the shipping instruction from the head office ordering / shipping system 9, the head office warehouse worker is instructed to perform a shipping operation.

  Based on the shipping operation instruction, the head office warehouse worker performs delivery from the storage shelf, packing work, and direct shipment to the customer, and records the shipping results to the head office warehouse management system 10 after completion. The headquarters warehouse management system 10 transmits shipment record information to the headquarters inventory management system 8.

  The head office inventory management system 8 deducts inventory and records the sales of the head office TO based on the shipment result information, and then transmits the shipment result information to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6.

  Then, the shipment record information is transmitted from the head office ordering / shipping system 9 to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 (step S105).

  The sales company ordering / shipping system 6 automatically orders and registers a sales company order (hereinafter referred to as a sales company PO (Purchase Order)) on the basis of the shipping record information transmitted from the head office ordering / shipping system 9 ( Step S106).

  As described above, since the logistics is direct delivery to the customer, the product does not go through the sales company warehouse. Accordingly, the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 automatically records the receipt for the sales company PO ordered in the previous process (step S107). At the same time, the sales company SO associated with the shipment from the head office is automatically counted.

  FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the simplification process of the slip process according to the pattern 2.

  In this pattern 2, the sales company sales department first inputs the sales company SO to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 based on the order received from the customer (step S201). (Received order placement, sales performance information) is transmitted to the demand prediction / answer system 4 (step S202).

  Subsequently, the demand prediction / answer system 4 takes in the sales company SO (step S203), and automatically corrects the demand prediction by the sales company SO. The sales company business modifies the demand forecast using the demand forecast / answer system 4 (step S204).

  The demand forecast / answer system 4 performs netting (demand and supply offset) processing based on demand forecast data, inventory / in-process information, and the like (step S205). , CO (Committed Order)) is generated (step S206).

  Thereafter, the CO data is transmitted from the demand prediction / answer system 4 to the head office ordering / shipping system 9 and the head office TO is automatically ordered based on the CO (step S207). The head office ordering / shipping system 9 issues a shipping instruction to the head office warehouse management system 10 in accordance with the delivery date of the head office TO (= CO delivery date) (step S208).

  In the head office warehouse management system 10, based on the shipping instruction, an instruction for shipping work to the head office warehouse worker is performed. Based on the shipping operation instruction, the head office warehouse worker performs delivery from the storage shelf, packing work, and shipment to the sales company warehouse, and after completion, records the shipment results to the head office warehouse management system 10.

  The headquarters warehouse management system 10 transmits shipment record information to the headquarters inventory management system 8. The head office inventory management system 8 deducts inventory and records sales of the head office TO based on the shipment result information, and then transmits the shipment result information to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6.

  Then, the shipment result information of the shipment performed in the previous process is transmitted from the head office ordering / shipping system 9 to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 (step S209). The sales company ordering / shipping system 6 automatically orders and registers the sales company PO based on the shipping performance information of the previous process.

  FIG. 4 is a flowchart illustrating an example of the simplification process of the slip process according to the pattern 3.

  In the dealership, based on the order received from the customer, the dealership order (hereinafter referred to as the dealership SO) is input to the dealership ordering / shipping system (not shown) (step S301). Subsequently, actual data (reception / order remaining, sales result information) is transmitted from the dealership ordering / shipping system to the demand prediction / answering system 4 (step S302).

  The demand prediction / answer system 4 takes in the dealership SO (step S303). At this time, the demand forecast is automatically corrected by the exclusive dealer SO. Then, the demand forecast is corrected by the demand forecast / answer system 4 at the dealer (step S304).

  The demand prediction / answer system 4 performs netting (demand and supply offset) processing based on the demand prediction data, inventory / in-process information, etc. (step S305), and generates CO as a result of the netting processing in the previous process (step S306). ).

  Subsequently, the CO data is transmitted from the demand prediction / answer system 4 to the head office ordering / shipping system 9 and the head office TO is automatically ordered based on the CO (step S307). When the head office TO is ordered in the previous process, the TO order result data is transmitted from the head office ordering / shipping system 9 to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6, and based on this data, the sales company orders / shipping system sells the sales company. The SO is automatically ordered (step S308).

  When the head office TO is ordered in the previous process, the TO order result data is transmitted from the head office ordering / shipping system 9 to the dealership ordering / shipping system, and the dealership PO is automatically registered based on this data. (Step S309).

  The head office ordering / shipping system 9 issues a shipping instruction to the head office warehouse management system 10 in accordance with the delivery date of the head office TO (= CO delivery date) (step S310). In the head office warehouse management system 10, based on the shipping instruction, an instruction for shipping work to the head office warehouse worker is performed.

  Based on the shipping operation instruction, the head office warehouse worker performs delivery from the storage shelf, packing work, and shipment to a dealer, and records the shipping results to the head office warehouse management system 10 after completion. The head office warehouse management system 10 transmits shipment record information to the head office inventory management system 8.

  The head office inventory management system 8 deducts inventory and records sales of the head office TO based on the shipment result information, and then transmits the shipment result information to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6. The shipment result information of the shipment performed in the previous process is transmitted from the head office ordering / shipping system 9 to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 (step S311).

  The sales company ordering / shipping system 6 automatically orders and registers the sales company PO based on the shipping result information of the previous process (step S312). In Pattern 3, since the distribution is direct delivery from a distributor, the product does not go through the sales company warehouse.

  Therefore, the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 automatically records the receipt for the sales company PO ordered in the previous process. At the same time, the sales of the sales company SO corresponding to the shipment from the head office is automatically counted (step S313).

  After the dealership PO is ordered in the previous process, when the product arrives at the dealership, the warehousing process is counted for the dealership PO in the dealership ordering system (step S314).

  As described above, in the voucher processing at the head office, as shown in FIG. 5, in pattern 1, the head office TO can be automatically created from the sales company SO, and in patterns 2 and 3, it is created from the demand forecast. The head office TO can be automatically created 1: 1 from the CO.

  Thereby, by registering the head office TO and the demand forecast (CO) or the sales company SO, registration, correction and work of the head office TO can be reduced.

  Further, in the voucher processing of the sales company, as shown in FIG. 6, the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 can automatically create the sales company PO in the patterns 1 to 3 in accordance with the shipment results of the head office. As a result, the sales company PO can be automatically created based on the shipment record of the head office, and the voucher processing work of the sales company can be reduced.

  Next, the distribution inventory reduction technique by the product distribution management system 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  First, an overview of inventory management of the head office inventory will be described with reference to FIG.

  In the headquarters warehouse, inventory is physically managed by model name. However, in the product distribution management system 1, as shown in FIG. 8, management is performed by logically dividing by customer / model name.

  By performing this logical division, it becomes possible to clearly separate and manage the head office inventory and the sales company inventory, which enables the introduction of the CO line. In this way, the points that logically ship from the head office inventory to the sales company inventory are newly defined as CO lines, and the stock points can be reduced by taking the sales company inventory into the head office inventory.

  As a result, it is possible to manage the stock of the sales company without moving the physical product in the head office warehouse or between the head office warehouse and the sales company warehouse.

  First, in FIG. 7, at a sales company / dealer, a customer's demand forecast for 26 weeks, for example, is input to the demand forecast / answer system 4 by customer name by product name (step S401). Next, the demand forecast / response system 4 uses the daily purchase / sales data (for example, customer order results, customer order remnants, shipment results, inventory existing in the sales company's warehouse) from the sales company / dealer bases. Receive (step S402).

  The demand prediction / answer system 4 checks the number of received messages and converts the customer code / product name uniquely used by the sales company into a standard one (step S403). The received purchase / sales data is reflected in the accumulated data in various ways, and data used for the day processing is extracted (step S404).

  The demand forecast entered by the sales is corrected in the customer order of the purchase and sales data. In addition, if there is a pre-delivery from the shipping data in the purchase and sales data, correction is performed. As a result, corrected demand forecast data is created (step S405).

  Further, the demand prediction / answer system 4 receives the head office inventory (head office management / sales company management) from the head office warehouse management system 10 (step S406). The demand prediction / answer system 4 classifies the head office inventory into head office management and sales company management inventory (step S407).

  Then, the netting (stock removal) process is performed by adding the sales company management stock and the stock of the purchase sales data (stock existing in the sales company warehouse) to the corrected demand forecast data in the process of step S405 (step S405). S408).

  At this time, the delivery date of 1W will be advanced in consideration of the logistics period between the head office → sales company → customer. If you want to keep the inventory at the sales company and operate it, take into account the inventory level value. As a result, the head office shipping request data is created.

  Based on the UO generation period master (set by product name), the head office shipping request is separated into the UO generation period. Within the UO generation period, UO will be implemented for headquarter shipping requests. The head office shipping request outside the UO generation period is subjected to reliability correction based on the reliability coefficient master, and the head office shipping request remains (step S409).

  Here, UO will be described.

  Considering the distribution forecast and the logistics period to the customer for the demand forecast, only the week set from the head office shipping request created by netting will be treated as an order, and the number of weeks handled as this order will be UO (Uncommitted Order) It is a generation period, and the order generated by this is UO.

  Subsequently, based on the customer order of the purchase and sales data, CO conversion is implemented for the UO that supports the customer order (step SS410). The CO + UO + head office shipment request remaining is merged (step S411). This is called final demand forecast (FinalSF in the figure).

  For the final demand prediction, allocation of the head office management inventory separated in the process of step S403 is performed (step S412). A shipment response from the head office is assigned to the final demand forecast assigned to the head office management inventory (step S413). Basically, since it is allocated to the headquarters management inventory, delivery date = shipping reply. The CO to which the shipping reply is given in the final demand forecast is separated (step S414).

  Subsequently, the demand prediction / answer system 4 transmits the CO to which the shipping reply is given to the head office ordering / shipping system 9 (step S415). The head office ordering / shipping system 9 extracts the CO requested delivery date (for example, set to Monday if the demand forecast is a weekly bucket) and the shipment date based on the shipment response (step S416). At this time, the automatic shipping instruction master is referred to extract the target.

  The head office ordering / shipping system 9 carries out shipping for the extracted CO. Thereby, the shipment of CO is automatically performed (step S417).

  In accordance with the shipment of CO, the headquarters inventory management system 8 performs a logical transfer of the inventory by customer code from the headquarters management inventory to the sales company management inventory (step S418). Although it is the head office inventory, the inventory exceeding the CO line (shown in FIG. 10) is displayed as the sales company management inventory in the head office inventory management system (step S419). The sales company management stock is allocated to the customer order and the actual product is shipped (step S420).

  FIG. 9 is an explanatory diagram of automatic shipment in the process of step S417.

  The headquarters warehouse interior is logically divided by customer for each 'customer', which is the unit of demand forecast that is the basis for inventory generation, so that only the customers for whom inventory for which demand forecast is made can be shipped and timed Reducing the amount of information verification.

  Further, by using a unit for forecasting stock generation, the shipping instruction work can be automated, and the shipping instruction work can be reduced.

  FIG. 10 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of shipment of CO.

  As shown in the figure, the goods received from the improvement are temporarily in stock at the head office. When shipment is performed using CO, the account moves from the head office inventory to the customer-specific inventory. In this case, the CO line is divided into inventory managed by the head office and inventory managed by the sales company. However, the actual product remains in the headquarters warehouse.

  Shipment to the customer is possible only from the management stock by customer from the head office order linked to the order (SO) of the sales company.

  In this way, by shipping CO, even if the stock exists in the warehouse of the head office, the sales company can make the customer-specific stock conscious of the stock of the sales company.

  Next, a technique for improving the efficiency of shipping operations by the product distribution management system 1 will be described with reference to the flowcharts of FIGS.

  FIG. 11 is a flowchart illustrating an example of improving the efficiency of product shipment operations according to pattern 1.

  First, after manufacture / shipment at the factory, the product is stored in the head office warehouse (step S501). The head office warehouse management system 10 records the receipt. In the head office inventory management system 8, the inventory is counted in accordance with the receipt counting in the head office warehouse management system 10. At this time, the stock is treated as a managed stock for each product.

  The head office inventory management system 8 classifies the inventory from the management inventory by product to the logical inventory by customer based on the CO delivery date and customer information (step S502). This stock classification by CO is automatically performed according to the CO delivery date and the answer delivery date. Moreover, inventory classification by CO may be performed manually.

  Subsequently, the head office ordering / shipping system 9 issues a TO shipping instruction based on the TO delivery date and the answer delivery date (step S503). As a result, a shipping instruction is given to the customer-specific logical inventory transferred by the CO. In this case as well, a manual shipping instruction may be performed.

  Then, in the head office warehouse management system 10, based on the TO shipping instruction, an instruction for shipping work to the head office warehouse worker is performed. Based on the shipping operation instruction, the head office warehouse worker performs delivery from the storage shelf, packing work, and direct shipment to the customer, and after completion, records the shipping record to the head office warehouse management system 10 (step S504).

  The headquarters warehouse management system 10 transmits shipment record information to the headquarters inventory management system 8. The head office inventory management system 8 deducts inventory and records sales of the head office TO based on the shipment result information, and then transmits the shipment result information to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6.

  The shipment result information of the shipment performed in the previous process is transmitted from the head office ordering / shipping system 9 to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 (step S505). The sales company ordering / shipping system 6 automatically orders and registers the sales company PO based on the shipping result information of the previous process (step S506).

  In Pattern 1, since the logistics is direct delivery to the customer, the product does not go through the sales company warehouse. Therefore, the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 automatically records the receipt for the sales company PO ordered in the previous process (step S507). At the same time, the sales of the sales company SO associated with the shipment from the head office is automatically recorded.

  FIG. 12 is a flowchart illustrating an example of improving the efficiency of product shipment work according to Pattern 2.

  First, after the product is manufactured / shipped at the factory, when the product is received in the head office warehouse (step S601), the head office warehouse management system 10 records the receipt. In the head office inventory management system 8, the inventory is counted in accordance with the receipt counting in the head office warehouse management system 10. At this time, the stock is treated as a managed stock for each product.

  The head office inventory management system 8 classifies the inventory from the management inventory by product to the logical inventory by customer based on the CO delivery date and customer information (step S602). This inventory transfer by CO is automatically performed according to the CO delivery date and the answer delivery date (manual transfer is also possible by setting).

  Subsequently, the head office ordering / shipping system 9 links to inventory transfer by CO, and issues a TO shipping instruction (step S603). As a result, a shipping instruction is given to the customer-specific logical inventory transferred by the CO.

  The headquarters warehouse management system 10 issues a shipping work instruction to the headquarters warehouse worker based on the TO shipping instruction (step S604). Based on the shipping operation instruction, the head office warehouse worker performs delivery from the storage shelf, packing work, and shipment to the sales company warehouse, and after completion, records the shipment results to the head office warehouse management system 10.

  The headquarters warehouse management system 10 transmits shipment record information to the headquarters inventory management system 8. The head office inventory management system 8 transmits the shipment history information to the head office ordering / shipping system 9 after deducting the inventory and recording the sales of the head office TO based on the shipment performance information.

  The shipment result information of the shipment performed in the previous process is transmitted from the head office ordering / shipping system 9 to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 (step S605). The sales company PO ordering / shipping system 6 automatically orders and registers the sales company PO based on the shipment result information of the previous process (step S606).

  After the product arrives at the sales company warehouse, the sales company warehouse management system 7 performs a warehousing process and records the warehousing (step S607). The warehousing data is transmitted from the sales company warehouse management system 7 to the sales company inventory management system 5, and is recorded as a logical inventory for each customer of the sales company.

  The warehousing data is transmitted from the sales company inventory management system 5 to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 and the sales company PO is recorded. The sales company ordering / shipping system 6 issues a shipping instruction to the sales company SO based on the delivery date of the sales company SO and the response delivery date (step S608).

  The shipping instruction to the sales company SO is automatically issued according to the delivery date of the sales company SO and the response delivery date (manual is also possible by setting).

  In the sales company warehouse management system 7, based on the shipping instruction of the sales company SO, an instruction for the shipping work to the sales company warehouse worker is given (step S609). Based on the shipping work instruction, the sales company warehouse worker performs delivery from the storage shelf, packing work, and shipment to the customer, and records the shipping results to the sales company warehouse management system 7 after completion.

  The sales company warehouse management system 7 transmits the shipment result information to the sales company inventory management system 5. The sales company inventory management system 5 deducts inventory and records sales of the sales company SO based on the shipment result information.

  FIG. 13 is a flowchart illustrating an example of improving the efficiency of product shipment operations according to pattern 3.

  First, after manufacturing / shipping at the factory, the goods are stored in the head office warehouse. The head office warehouse management system 10 records the receipt. In the head office inventory management system 8, the inventory is counted in accordance with the receipt counting in the head office warehouse management system 10. At this time, the stock is handled as a managed stock for each product (step S701).

  Then, the head office inventory management system 8 classifies the inventory from the management inventory for each product to the logical inventory for each customer based on the CO delivery date and customer information (step S702). This stock classification by CO is automatically performed according to the CO delivery date and the response delivery date (manual classification is also possible by setting).

  Subsequently, the head office ordering / shipping system 9 issues a TO shipping instruction based on the TO delivery date and the answer delivery date (step S703). Thereby, a shipping instruction is given to the customer-specific logical inventory transferred by the CO (a manual shipping instruction is also possible by setting).

  Thereafter, the headquarters warehouse management system 10 issues a shipping operation instruction to the headquarters warehouse worker based on the TO shipping instruction (step S704). Based on the shipping work instruction, the head office warehouse worker performs delivery from the storage shelf, packing work, and direct delivery to the dealer, and records the shipping results to the head office warehouse management system 10 after completion.

  The headquarters warehouse management system 10 transmits shipment record information to the headquarters inventory management system 8. The head office inventory management system 8 deducts inventory and records the sales of the head office TO based on the shipment result information, and then transmits the shipment result information to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6.

  The shipment result information of the shipment performed in the previous process is transmitted from the head office ordering / shipping system 9 to the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 (step S705). The sales company PO ordering / shipping system 6 automatically orders and registers the sales company PO based on the shipment result information of the previous process (step S706).

  In Pattern 3, since the distribution is direct delivery from a distributor, the product does not go through the sales company warehouse. Accordingly, the sales company ordering / shipping system 6 automatically records the receipt for the sales company PO ordered in the previous process (step S707). At the same time, the sales of the sales company SO corresponding to the shipment from the head office is automatically counted.

  At the same time, when the product arrives at the dealer, the dealer stores the warehousing process for the dealer PO using the dealer ordering system (step S708).

  FIG. 14 is an explanatory diagram showing a shipment procedure of the logical stock by customer.

  The customer stock is received from the managed stock for each product, and is shipped to customers, sales company warehouses, and distributors by TO. The inventory is logically classified by customer and shipped to the destination from TO. In the shipping procedure, the managed inventory by product is issued by the CO to the customer inventory account, and from the customer inventory account to the physical destination by TO. Shipped to the ground.

  Next, the optimal distribution technology for inventory / in-process by the product distribution management system 1 will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.

  First, demand forecasts from customers at sales companies and dealers are input into the demand forecast / answer system 4 by customer code and product name, for example, for the preceding 26 weeks (step S801).

  The demand forecast / response system 4 receives the daily sales and purchase data (customer order results, customer order remnants, shipment results, inventory existing in the warehouses of the sales company and dealers) from each base of the sales company and dealers. Step S802).

  The demand prediction / answer system 4 checks the number of receptions (double transmission check), and converts the customer code and product name uniquely used by the sales company into a standard one (step S803).

  The demand prediction / answer system 4 reflects the received purchase sales data in the accumulated data in various ways, extracts data used for the processing on the day (step S804), and stores the purchase sales data in response to the demand forecast input by the business. Make corrections on the customer order. In addition, if there is a pre-delivery from the shipping data in the purchase and sales data, correction is performed. As a result, corrected demand forecast data is created (step S805).

  Subsequently, the demand prediction / answer system 4 receives the head office inventory (head office management / sales company management) from the head office warehouse management system 8 (step S806), and classifies the head office inventory into the head office management inventory and the sales company management inventory (step S807). ).

  Netting (inventory withdrawal) processing is carried out for the corrected demand forecast data in step S805, taking into account the sales company management stock and the stock of the sales presence data (stock existing in the sales company warehouse) (step S808). . At this time, the delivery period of 1W will be advanced in consideration of the logistics period between the head office → sales company → customer. If you want to keep the inventory at the sales company and operate it, take into account the inventory level value. As a result, the head office shipping request data is created.

  Then, the demand prediction / answer system 4 separates the headquarter shipping request into and out of the UO generation period based on the UO generation period master (set for each product name) (step S809). Within the UO generation period, UO will be implemented for headquarter shipping requests. The head office shipping request outside the UO generation period is subjected to reliability correction based on the reliability coefficient master, and the head office shipping request remains.

  Subsequently, the demand prediction / response system 4 implements CO conversion for those that are supported by the UO based on the customer order in the purchase / sales data (step S810). The final demand forecast (denoted as FinalSF in the figure) is merged (step S811).

  Then, the demand prediction / answer system 4 allocates the head office management inventory separated in step S807 to the final demand prediction (step S812), and issues the head office to the final demand prediction allocated to the head office management inventory. After assigning a shipping reply (basically, delivery time = shipping reply because it is allocated to the headquarters managed inventory) (step S813), a final demand forecast is transmitted to the supply and demand adjustment system 11 (step S814). .

  The supply and demand adjustment system 11 receives in-process information for each process at each production factory base from the in-process management system (step S815), and receives information (BOM) for allocating in-process information for each process from the warehousing (shipping) product name. (In-process product name may be different from goods name in goods receipt).

  The supply and demand adjustment system 11 implements in-progress provisioning based on the BOM data for the amount that has not been allocated to the head office management inventory in the final demand prediction (number of production requests) (step S816). The scheduled date of entry to the head office warehouse is calculated in consideration of the work period and process capability (registered in the supply and demand adjustment system 11) from the assigned work in process to receipt.

  The supply and demand adjustment system 11 transmits the final demand prediction to which the scheduled date of warehousing is given to the demand prediction / answer system 4 (step S817). The demand prediction / answer system 4 obtains the warehouse work work period from the head office warehouse work work period master for the warehousing-based answer, and rewrites it to the shipment base (step S818).

  Next, the flow of accommodation of various rights (stock / shipment reply) by the product distribution management system 1 will be described with reference to FIGS. 16 and 17.

  FIG. 16 is a flowchart showing an example of interchange between customers of sales company management stock.

  First, the sales company management stock for each customer, which is the head office stock, is searched. The customer who requests the accommodation is selected, and necessary information is entered on the swap request (shipment frame replacement request) screen of the sales company inventory of the demand prediction / response system 4 (step S901).

  Based on the input information, the demand prediction / answer system 4 generates swap request data. Request information is automatically distributed by e-mail to the requested sales representative based on the customer responsible master (step S902).

  After confirming the contents of the e-mail, the requested sales representative inputs approval from the sales company inventory swap approval screen of the demand prediction / answer system 4 (step S903).

  Next, the demand forecast / answer system 4 re-stocks the customer-specific inventory from the request source to the request destination (step S904), and the demand forecast / answer system 4 transmits swap information to the head office inventory management system 8. (Step S905).

  Then, the head office inventory management system 8 replaces the customer of the sales company management inventory, which is the head office inventory, based on the swap information (step S906).

  FIG. 17 is a flowchart showing an example of the inter-customer interchange of the sales company management stock and the shipping frame.

  First, the sales company management stock for each customer, which is the head office stock, is searched. The customer who requests the accommodation is selected, and necessary information is input to the sales company inventory swap request screen of the demand prediction / answer system 4 (step S1001).

  Based on the input information, the demand prediction / answer system 4 generates swap request data. Request information is automatically distributed, for example, by e-mail or the like to the sales representative in charge based on the customer manager master (step S1002).

  After confirming the contents of the e-mail, the requested sales representative inputs the approval from the sales company inventory swap approval screen of the demand prediction / answer system 4 (step S1003). For the customer-specific inventory in the demand prediction / reply system 4, the inventory is changed from the request source to the request destination (step S1004).

  The swap information is transmitted from the demand prediction / answer system 4 to the head office inventory management system 8 (step S1005). The head office inventory management system 8 replaces the customer of the sales company management inventory, which is the head office inventory, based on the swap information (step S1006).

  After approving the availability of inventory, if there is a future demand forecast, the request source is requested to accommodate the shipping frame (right) (step S1007). The demand prediction / response system 4 searches for a shipping response of the requester of inventory accommodation (step S1008). Necessary information is input to the shipping frame swap request screen of the demand prediction / answer system 4 for the customer who is the requester of the inventory accommodation.

  Based on the input information, the demand prediction / answer system 4 generates swap request data. Request information is automatically distributed, for example, by e-mail or the like to the sales representative in charge based on the customer responsible master (step S1009).

  After confirming the contents of the e-mail, the requested sales representative inputs the approval from the shipping frame swap authentication screen of the demand prediction / response system 4 (step S1010), and ships by customer in the demand prediction / response system 4 The stock is changed from the request source to the request destination for the frame (step S1011).

  FIG. 18 is an explanatory diagram of the customer-specific shipping frame interchange for exchanging (swapping) the shipping frame after the inventory interchange.

  Inventories by customer are basically very small and have only SO support. In many cases, it is NG for a request for unilateral flexibility. As a condition for deciding whether or not to allow inventory, when it is returned is an important decision factor.

  Therefore, when considering the case where the inventory of a certain customer A is accommodated to the customer B, as shown in FIG. Two processes of switching are required.

  As described in (2) above, the shipping frame held by customer B with the same model name is switched to customer A in the same week. From the viewpoint of manufacturing, there is no effect, so if there is an agreement between sales, it should be accepted unconditionally. Therefore, the exchange of the shipping allowance for the same model name in the same week can be performed at the will of sale.

  As mentioned above, the invention made by the present inventor has been specifically described based on the embodiment. However, the present invention is not limited to the embodiment, and various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the invention. Needless to say.

  The present invention is suitable for improving the efficiency of inventory management, shipping work, and slip processing in a semiconductor device.

It is a block diagram which shows the structure of the product distribution management system by one embodiment of this invention. It is a flowchart which shows the simplification process example of the slip process in the pattern 1 by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the simplification process of the slip process in the pattern 2 by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the simplification process example of the slip process in the pattern 3 by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is explanatory drawing in the slip process of the head office by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is explanatory drawing in the slip process of the sales company by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the reduction of the distribution stock by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows the outline | summary of the inventory management in the head office inventory by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is explanatory drawing of the automatic shipment in the process of step S417 of FIG. It is explanatory drawing which shows an example of the shipment of CO by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the example of efficiency improvement of the product shipping operation in the pattern 1 by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the example of efficiency improvement of the product shipping operation in the pattern 2 by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the example of efficiency improvement of the product shipping operation in the pattern 3 by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is explanatory drawing which showed the shipment procedure of the customer specific logical stock by the product distribution management system of FIG. 3 is a flowchart showing an example of processing for optimal distribution of inventory and work in progress by the product distribution management system of FIG. 1. It is a flowchart which shows an example of the interchange between customers of the sales company management stock by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is a flowchart which shows the process example of the interchange between customers of the sales company management stock and the shipping frame by the product distribution management system of FIG. It is explanatory drawing of the shipping frame interchange classified by customer which exchanges the shipping frame after the inventory interchange by the product distribution management system of FIG.

Explanation of symbols

1 Product Distribution Management System 2 Order / Shipping Department 3 Demand Prediction / Delivery Time Response Part 4 Demand Prediction / Response System 5 Sales Company Inventory Management System 6 Sales Company Ordering / Shipment System 7 Sales Company Warehouse Management System 8 Head Office Inventory Management System 9 Head Office Ordering / Shipment system 10 Head office warehouse management system 11 Supply and demand adjustment system 12 Production instruction / response system 13 In-process management system

Claims (5)

The head office ordering / shipping system automatically registers the order information of the head office order on a one-to-one basis based on the sales order information received from the sales company,
In accordance with the delivery date of the head office order information, the head office ordering / shipping system directs the direct delivery shipment to the customer of the corresponding product to the head office warehouse management system;
The headquarters warehouse management system, based on the shipping instruction, when the direct shipment to the customer is completed, sending the shipment result information that the shipment of the product is completed;
Based on the shipment result information, the sales company ordering / shipping system orders and registers the sales company ordering information;
A distribution management method for semiconductor devices, wherein the sales company ordering / shipping system includes a step of counting a receipt for the sales company ordering information. Based on the sales order information, the demand forecast / answer system corrects the demand forecast and performs the netting process based on demand forecast data, inventory, in-process information,
From the result of the netting process by the demand forecast / answer system, the demand forecast / answer system generates a confirmed order;
A step in which the head office ordering / shipping system receives an order as head office order information based on the confirmed order;
The head office ordering / shipping system performing a shipping instruction for shipping the corresponding product to the sales company warehouse according to the delivery date of the head office order information to the head office warehouse management system;
A step of recording shipping record information in the head office warehouse management system when product shipment to the sales company warehouse is completed;
Based on the shipment record information, the head office inventory management system performs inventory subtraction and sales recording of head office orders;
A distribution management method for semiconductor devices, comprising: a sales company ordering / shipping system, the step of ordering and registering sales company ordering information based on the shipment result information. The head office warehouse management system receives and records the products received in the head office warehouse,
The head office inventory management system transfers the inventory from the managed inventory by product to the logical inventory by customer based on the due date of the firm order and the customer information;
A step in which the head office ordering / shipping system issues a heading order shipment instruction to the head office warehouse management system based on the delivery date of the head office order information and the response delivery date;
When the shipment of the product to the customer is completed based on the shipping instruction, the head office inventory management system, based on the shipping record information output from the head office ordering / shipping system, The steps to book sales,
Based on the shipment result information, the sales company ordering / shipping system orders and registers the sales company ordering information;
A distribution management method for semiconductor devices, comprising: a sales company inventory management system counting receipts for the sales company ordering information. The head office warehouse management system receives and records the products received in the head office warehouse,
The headquarters inventory management system transfers the inventory from the managed inventory by product to the logical inventory by customer based on the due date of the firm order and customer information;
The head office ordering / shipping system links the inventory transfer with order confirmation and issues a shipping instruction;
Based on the shipping instruction of the head office order information, the head office warehouse management system performs a shipping instruction to ship the corresponding product to the sales company warehouse;
When the shipment of the product to the sales company warehouse is completed based on the shipping instruction, the head office warehouse management system records shipping performance information;
Based on the shipment record information, the head office inventory management system records the deduction of inventory and sales of head office order information;
Based on the shipment result information, the sales company ordering / shipping system orders and registers the sales company ordering information;
When the product arrives at the sales company warehouse, the sales company warehouse management system processes the receipt recording data, and records as a logical stock for each customer of the sales company based on the receipt recording data;
A step in which the sales company ordering / shipping system records the receipt as a sales order based on the receipt recording data;
Based on the delivery date of the sales company order information and the response delivery date, the sales company ordering / shipping system issues a shipping instruction for the sales company order;
A step in which the sales company warehouse management system issues a shipping instruction to the sales company warehouse management system of the sales company warehouse based on the shipping instruction of the sales company ordering / shipping system;
A step of outputting shipment result information when product shipment to the customer is completed;
A distribution management method for semiconductor devices, characterized in that a sales company inventory management system has a step of deducting inventory and recording sales of sales company orders based on the shipment result information. Reflecting the purchase and sales data consisting of the received customer order results, customer order remnants, shipment results, inventory, etc. in the cumulative data, and extracting the data used by the demand forecast / answer system for processing;
The demand prediction / response system performs correction of the customer order of the purchase sales data or correction when there is advance delivery from the shipment data of the purchase sales data with respect to the input demand prediction, and the corrected demand Creating forecast data,
The demand prediction / answer system receives inventory in the headquarters warehouse from the headquarters warehouse management system, and separates the inventory into headquarters management and sales company management inventory;
The demand prediction / response system performs netting processing with respect to the corrected demand prediction data, taking into account the inventory of the sales company management inventory and the purchase sales presence data;
The demand forecast / response system separates the headquarter shipping request into and out of the indoubt order generation period based on the indoubt order generation period master;
Based on the customer order of the purchase and sales data, the demand prediction / answering system sets the confirmed order for the unconfirmed order supported by the customer order; and
The demand prediction / answer system merges the confirmed order, the unconfirmed order, and the headquarters shipment request balance into a FinalSF, and allocates the separated headquarters managed inventory to the FinalSF;
The demand prediction / response system assigns a headquarters shipment response to the FinalSF assigned to the headquarters managed inventory;
The supply and demand adjustment system performs the provision of in-process based on the in-process in-process data for the number of production requests that are not allocated to the headquarters-managed inventory in the FinalSF;
The supply and demand adjustment system sends a FinalSF to which a scheduled warehousing date is given, and the demand prediction / answer system obtains a warehouse work work period from the head office warehouse work work period master for the warehousing-based answer and regenerates it to a shipment base A distribution management method for semiconductor devices, comprising:

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