JP7491627B2 - Information processing system, information processing method, and program - Google Patents

Description

This disclosure relates to an information processing system, an information processing method, and a program.

Traditionally, it has been known that businesses that sell or provide goods carry out various tasks, such as ordering goods, storing the ordered goods, and accounting after they are stored in the warehouse. However, most of these tasks are done manually, and the efficiency of these tasks cannot be said to be high.

In response to such a situation, for example, Patent Document 1 discloses a technology that enables accurate calculation of order points in order to minimize lost sales opportunities due to stockouts and unnecessary inventory.

JP 2003-248714 A

However, because the technology disclosed in the above-mentioned Patent Document 1 is a technology for ordering, it does not disclose technology for various tasks that occur after an item has been ordered (especially after a purchase order is created and sent), and further improvements in the efficiency of existing tasks are desired.

Therefore, this disclosure describes an information processing system, information processing method, and program that can generate various types of information, particularly based on order information, thereby reducing the amount of manual work required for each process.

The information processing system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes an inventory information generation unit that extracts a portion of information from order information for placing an order for an item with a supplier, and generates inventory information regarding inventory related to the order.

According to the present disclosure, it is possible to generate various information, particularly based on order information, thereby reducing the amount of manual work required for each process.

1 is a block diagram illustrating an information processing system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure. FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a hardware configuration of the server 100 in FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating the functions of a storage unit 120 and a control unit 130 of FIG. 2. 13 is an example of an input screen when inputting order information into a first user terminal device 200. 13 is a display example of order information sent as an email. 13 is a display example of accounting summary information. 7 is a display example of detailed information of accounting summary information for each supplier user in FIG. 6. 13 shows an example of displaying invoice information based on accounting information. FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of the user terminal device 200 (300) of FIG. 1. 10 is a block diagram illustrating the functions of a control unit 230 in FIG. 9 . 2 is a flowchart showing an example of a process of the information processing system 1 of FIG. 1 .

The contents of the embodiment of the present invention will be listed and explained. The information processing system according to the embodiment of the present invention has the following configuration.

[Item 1]
a warehousing information generating unit that extracts a part of information from order information for ordering an article to a supplier and generates warehousing information regarding warehousing related to the order;
An information processing system comprising:
[Item 2]
The order information includes destination information regarding a plurality of destinations,
The warehousing information generating unit generates a plurality of pieces of warehousing information for each warehousing destination from the order information based on the warehousing destination information.
2. The information processing system according to item 1,
[Item 3]
the order information includes information regarding a plurality of items;
The inventory information generating unit generates inventory information for each of the order item group information by referring to order item group information associated with a plurality of order item identification information.
3. The information processing system according to claim 1 or 2.
[Item 4]
The order group information is set for each type of order.
4. The information processing system according to item 3.
[Item 5]
The order group information is set for each ordering department.
5. The information processing system according to claim 3 or 4.
[Item 6]
Further, an information management unit is provided that transmits the inventory information to an external system that is linked by a user operation.
6. The information processing system according to any one of items 1 to 5.
[Item 7]
The external system is a warehouse management system.
7. The information processing system according to item 6,
[Item 8]
The external system is a messaging system.
8. The information processing system according to item 6 or 7.
[Item 9]
Further, an information management unit is provided for transmitting the inventory information in response to a request for transmitting the inventory information from a second user different from the first user who inputs the order information.
9. The information processing system according to any one of items 1 to 8.
[Item 10]
Further, a delivery confirmation unit is provided for associating delivery confirmation information indicating a status of delivery confirmation with at least one of order information, warehousing information, and delivery information related to delivery of goods in response to a user operation.
10. The information processing system according to any one of items 1 to 9.
[Item 11]
The method further comprises a transaction information generation unit that generates transaction information based on the order information.
11. The information processing system according to any one of items 1 to 10.
[Item 12]
The transaction information is payment schedule information indicating information related to a payment schedule corresponding to the order.
12. The information processing system according to item 11,
[Item 13]
the accounting information generation unit estimates or determines a delivery time based on at least one of desired delivery date information or scheduled arrival time information in the order information, and generates, as the scheduled payment information, scheduled payment time information based on the delivery time and scheduled payment amount information corresponding to order amount information based on the order information;
13. The information processing system according to item 12.
[Item 14]
the accounting information generation unit generates the scheduled payment time information by further referencing accounting rule information that indicates accounting rules related to payment due dates.
14. The information processing system according to item 13.
[Item 15]
The transaction information generation unit changes the scheduled payment information to confirmed payment information in response to a user operation.
15. The information processing system according to any one of items 12 to 14.
[Item 16]
The transaction information generation unit reflects the payment confirmation information in a linked accounting system or accounting function.
16. The information processing system according to item 15,
[Item 17]
The transaction information generation unit generates transaction summary information that compiles information related to the order amount or the number of items ordered based on the order information.
17. An information processing system according to any one of items 11 to 16.
[Item 18]
The accounting summary information includes at least summary information collected for a predetermined period of time.
18. An information processing system according to item 17,
[Item 19]
The accounting summary information includes at least summary information summarized for each ordering user.
18. An information processing system according to item 17,
[Item 20]
The accounting summary information includes at least summary information summarized by ordering department,
18. An information processing system according to item 17,
[Item 21]
The accounting summary information includes summary information at least for each type of order.
18. An information processing system according to item 17,
[Item 22]
The information processing system according to any one of items 11 to 16, wherein the accounting information generation unit at least calculates inventory quantities or acquires inventory purchase prices based on at least one of order information, warehousing information, delivery information, and accounting information, and calculates inventory asset information from inventory quantity information and inventory purchase price information.
[Item 23]
The inventory information is input from the first user terminal device 200 or the second user terminal device 300.
23. The information processing system according to item 22.
[Item 24]
The inventory information is obtained from a linked warehouse management system.
23. The information processing system according to item 22.
[Item 25]
The inventory quantity information is calculated by subtracting the acquired consumption quantity from the inventory quantity based on at least one of order information, inventory information, delivery information, and accounting information.
23. The information processing system according to item 22.
[Item 26]
The inventory purchase unit price information is set based on a selection operation by a user.
26. An information processing system according to any one of items 22 to 25.
[Item 27]
The inventory purchase unit price information is extracted from the inventory quantity in order starting from the most recent order amount, and the corresponding unit price information is set.
26. An information processing system according to any one of items 22 to 25.
[Item 28]
A step of extracting, by a stock-in-stock information generating unit, part of information from order information for placing an order for an article with a supplier, and generating stock-in-stock information regarding stock-in-stock related to the order;
23. An information processing method comprising:
[Item 29]
a step of causing the computer to execute a step of extracting a part of information from order information for placing an order for an article with a supplier and generating inventory information regarding inventory related to the order by a warehousing information generating function;
A program characterized by:

Embodiments of the present disclosure will be described below with reference to the drawings. Note that the embodiments described below do not unduly limit the contents of the present disclosure described in the claims. Furthermore, not all of the components shown in the embodiments are necessarily essential components of the present disclosure. Furthermore, the features shown in each embodiment can be applied to other embodiments as long as they are not mutually inconsistent.

<Configuration>
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an information processing system 1 according to a first embodiment of the present disclosure. In this information processing system 1, for example, a first user terminal device 200, a second user terminal device 300, and a third user terminal device 400 are connected to a server 100 via a network NW. In this information processing system 1, for example, based on input information from the first user terminal device 200, the server 100 generates order information for the first user to order goods from a supplier (or receives order information from the first user terminal device 200, or acquires order information from a linked database based on the input information), and generates inventory information regarding the inventory of goods ordered by the first user based on the order information and the inventory destination information. The generated inventory information is transmitted to at least one of the first user terminal device 200 (e.g., an order terminal used by an ordering user) or the second user terminal device 300 (e.g., an inventory destination terminal used by an inventory destination user) and referred to as appropriate. The third user terminal device 400 operated by the user of the supplier may be configured to be able to read out each piece of information, such as order information, associated with its own supplier identification information.

Although three user terminal devices are shown as an example, the present invention is not limited to this, and the first user terminal device 200 (e.g., an ordering terminal) and the second user terminal device 300 (e.g., a receiving terminal) may be a common user terminal, or the information system may include four or more user terminal devices. Also, although the icons of the three user terminal devices are different as an example, the present invention is not limited to this, and at least some of the user terminals may be the same type of device.

The network NW is composed of the Internet, an intranet, a blockchain network, a wireless LAN (Local Area Network), a WAN (Wide Area Network), BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), etc.

The server 100 is, for example, a server device that provides network services to a first user terminal device 200, a second user terminal device 300, and a third user terminal device 400 via a network NW. Details will be described later.

The first user terminal device 200, the second user terminal device 300, and the third user terminal device 400 are information processing devices owned by each user, such as a personal computer, a tablet terminal, a smartphone, a mobile phone, a PHS, or a PDA.

<Server 100>
Fig. 2 is a diagram showing a hardware configuration of the server 100. Fig. 3 is a block diagram showing an example of the functions of the storage unit 120 and the control unit 130. The server 100 may be a general-purpose computer such as a personal computer, or may be logically realized by cloud computing. Note that the illustrated configuration is an example, and the server 100 may have other configurations.

The server 100 includes a communication unit 110, a memory unit 120, a control unit 130, and an input/output unit 140. These functional units are realized by executing a specific program for the server 100.

The communication unit 110 is a communication interface for communicating with the first user terminal device 200, the second user terminal device 300, and the third user terminal device 400, and communication is performed according to a communication protocol such as TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol).

The storage unit 120 stores programs for executing various control processes and functions in the control unit 130, input data, etc., and is composed of RAM (Random Access Memory), ROM (Read Only Memory), etc. As shown in FIG. 3, the storage unit 120 includes a user information storage unit 121 that stores user information registered in advance when using a network service in association with user identification information, a supplier information storage unit 122 that stores supplier information related to a supplier associated with each user identification information in association with supplier identification information, a warehouse information storage unit 123 that stores warehouse information related to a warehouse associated with each user identification information in association with warehouse identification information, an order information storage unit 124 that stores information related to an order associated with each user identification information, and a warehouse information storage unit 125 that stores information related to warehouse associated with each user identification information. Furthermore, the storage unit 120 temporarily stores data communicated with the first user terminal device 200, the second user terminal device 300, and the third user terminal device 400.

The user information may include, for example, user identification information, user name information (e.g., company name), contact information (e.g., email address, address, telephone number, etc.), accounting information (sales information, expenditure information, etc.), user accounting rule information (payment timing rule information, etc.), and may include, for example, identification information (also called "related user identification information") of other users (e.g., parent company, subsidiary company, affiliated company, group company, etc.) related to the user registered by the user, but is not limited to this. In addition, the user information may be hierarchical, and in the upper layer, user identification information for each organization such as a company is assigned and managed, and in the lower layer, personal user information (e.g., personal user identification information, personal user name information, department, contact information, etc.) may be linked to the user identification information and managed. The personal user may include, for example, an ordering user having the first user terminal device 200, a receiving operation user having the second user terminal device 300, and a customer user having the third user terminal device 400.

The supplier information may include, for example, but is not limited to, supplier identification information, supplier name information (e.g., company name), contact information (e.g., email address, address, telephone number, etc.), product (item) information (item ID, item name, item description, item image, price information, etc.), supplier accounting rule information (payment timing rule information, etc.). As described above, the supplier information may be managed by being registered for each user identification information, but it may also be managed by providing a common database registered in advance and allowing the user identification information and supplier information to be referenced or associated according to the user's selection.

The receiving destination information may include, for example, receiving destination identification information, receiving destination name information (e.g., warehouse name, receiving space name, region name, etc.), contact information (e.g., email address, address, telephone number, etc.), receiving destination accounting rules information (payment timing rules information, etc.), etc., but is not limited to these.

The order information may include, for example, supplier identification information, order item identification information, order timing (e.g., order date, etc.), order item name, order item type information (information indicating the type of product or category of product/material, etc., which may be arbitrarily set by the user), order item quantity information (e.g., information on the number, weight, length, etc. of ordered items), order item unit price information, tax classification information, order amount information, delivery date information (e.g., delivery date, etc.), payment terms information (e.g., closing date rule information (closing date at the end of the month, closing date on the 10th or 20th of the month, etc.), payment time rule information (payment at the end of the following month, payment at the beginning of the following month, payment at the end of the second month, advance payment, etc.), and warehouse destination identification information, and may further include at least a part of the supplier information read from the supplier information storage unit 122 based on the supplier identification information, but is not limited to this. At least a part of the supplier information may be stored in advance as order information in the order information storage unit 124. Then, as described above, the order information is read from the control unit 130 based on, for example, input information from the first user terminal device 200. The order information may be generated by an order information generating unit (not shown), or may be received after being created by an order information generating unit (not shown) of the first user terminal device 200, or may be acquired from a linked database based on an acquisition operation from the user terminal device. The order information may be formatted as a so-called purchase order and output to the outside (for example, sending to the supplier or output as a paper medium, etc.). Furthermore, it may be possible to change (modify) at least a part of the order information (for example, order quantity information, order unit price information, order amount information, delivery date information, etc.) from the third user terminal device (order destination terminal) only for order information related to its own supplier identification information. In that case, an approval confirmation may be sent to the first user terminal device (order source terminal), and the above-mentioned change (modification) from the third user terminal device may be reflected in the order information only if the response to the approval confirmation (for example, an "approval" button or a "non-approval" button is displayed and one of them is selected) indicates approval.

Figure 4 shows an example of an input screen when inputting order information on the first user terminal device 200. For example, the user may enter order information (supplier information), warehouse information (delivery destination information), order date information, delivery date information, payment deadline information, order name information, order quantity information (lot number information), order unit price information, tax classification information, order amount information, etc. Furthermore, when applying a format as a purchase order, subject information may also be included. Figure 5 shows an example of display of order information sent based on an email address included in the supplier information. Based on the order information entered by the user, summary information of the purchase order (for example, delivery date information, order name information, order quantity information (lot number information), order unit price information, order amount information, etc.) may be sent by email. Furthermore, the email may have an order output button so that data to which the purchase order format has been applied can be downloaded, or may be attached to the email.

The inventory information may include, for example, destination identification information, inventory item identification information, inventory time (e.g., inventory date (including planned inventory date)), inventory item name, inventory item quantity information (e.g., information such as the number, weight, and length of the inventory items), inventory item unit price information, inventory item total amount information, and may further include at least a portion of the inventory destination information read from the inventory destination information storage unit 123 based on the inventory destination identification information, but is not limited to this. At least a portion of the inventory destination information may be stored in advance as inventory information in the inventory information storage unit 125.

The control unit 130 controls the overall operation of the server 100 and is composed of a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and the like. As shown in FIG. 3, the control unit 130 includes functional units such as an information transmission/reception unit 131, an information management unit 132, and an inventory information generation unit 133.

The information transmission/reception unit 131 receives various information and requests from each user terminal device, and transmits various information and requests to each user terminal device. The various information includes, but is not limited to, input information from the user terminal device, information transmitted to the user terminal device, and inventory information described below. For example, the information may receive user identification information for identifying the user of each user terminal device (e.g., a user account issued upon user registration), time information associated with each piece of information (e.g., time information (including date information as appropriate) when the various pieces of information were generated or stored), and linkage information sent from a database linked based on user operations of each user terminal device.

The information management unit 132 stores the received information in an appropriate memory unit, and reads the information from the memory unit in response to the received request.

The inventory information generating unit 133 generates inventory information regarding the inventory of the goods ordered by the first user based on the order information. That is, the inventory information generating unit 133 extracts, for example, part or all of the information included in the order information (e.g., supplier identification information, supplier information (supplier name, contact information, etc.), order item identification information, order item name, order item quantity information, order item unit price information, inventory destination identification information, etc.), and when extracting a part of the order information in particular, extracts only information required at the time of warehousing to the destination such as delivery (e.g., supplier name, order item identification information, order item name, order item quantity information, etc.), and generates information required when confirming the delivery from the supplier as inventory information. Then, the information is stored and managed in the inventory information storage unit 125 so that it can be referenced by each user terminal device. The information extracted from the order information as inventory information may be set in advance in common in the system, or each user may select part or all of the information to be extracted in association with the user identification information and set it for each user. As a result, in the past, to eliminate delays in receiving goods during inventory management, it was necessary to manually create inventory information (scheduled inventory information) in advance, but with the present invention, this inventory information can be created automatically from the order information at the time of ordering, reducing the burden on inventory managers. Furthermore, it is possible to generate inventory information for purposes such as matching delivered items with items scheduled to be in stock by not extracting monetary information such as unit price information or contact information that does not need to be shown to workers at the time of stocking.

Furthermore, the generated inventory information may be managed so that it can be confirmed from the user terminal device of the user indicated by the user identification information (or personal user identification information) linked to the inventory destination identification information. As a more specific example, for example, when the user manages inventory using an external system such as a warehouse management system (so-called WMS) outside this system, the inventory information may be sent from this system to the external system at any timing by linking this system with the external system, so that the user can confirm it on the external system. Alternatively, the inventory information may be output externally in a format (e.g., CSV format, etc.) that can be read by the external system (particularly the warehouse management system), and the user may be able to confirm it on the external system by reading the inventory information output externally based on user operations, etc. Furthermore, when a message system (e.g., an email system or a chat system, etc.) is used as an external system linked to this system, the information may be transmitted to the second user terminal device 300 or the first user terminal device 200, etc., which are the corresponding inventory destinations, at any timing for the user, so that the user can refer to it. The arbitrary timing may be, for example, preset by the user, such as the scheduled arrival date or a predetermined period before the scheduled arrival date, with the transmission timing information being uniform or for each order information, or may be set based on information on the predicted arrival time calculated from the arrival lead time information and order time information, including arrival lead time information in the destination information (more simply, information indicating the number of days that have passed since the order date indicated by the order time, which is the lead time indicated by the arrival lead time, etc.). In addition, in response to a request from the first user terminal device 200 or the second user terminal device 300, the information may be transmitted to this system or to a linked external system, and made available for confirmation on the external system.

Furthermore, as an example, the order information may include multiple receiving destination identification information, and each receiving destination identification information may be associated with each piece of information in the order information (e.g., order item identification information, order item name, order item quantity information, order item unit price information, etc.) and stored and managed in the order information storage unit 124 as the order information. That is, in a single ordering operation by the first user terminal device 200, orders may be placed with multiple receiving destinations (e.g., warehouses) managed by the same user, or orders may be placed with multiple receiving destinations including those of other users associated with the user (e.g., parent companies, subsidiaries, affiliated companies, group companies, etc.). In such cases, the receiving information generation unit 133 generates receiving information for each receiving destination using the receiving destination identification information included in the order information.

As a result, even if multiple orders are placed at once, workers (individual users) can refer to the inventory information with unnecessary information removed when matching the actual deliveries with the inventory information during inventory work, and manual work to make such inventory information accessible is not required.

As another example, the order information may include information (particularly, order item identification information) on a plurality of items (products). The inventory information generating unit 133 may generate inventory information for each order item identification information, or may generate inventory information for each order item group information by referring to order item group information associated with a plurality of order item identification information. The order group information may be, for example, a group divided by type of order item (for example, a category of product group, a category of individual packaging material group for individually packaging products, a category of packaging material group for packaging individually packaged products for shipping, or a category for a predetermined length range or weight range, etc.), a group divided by management area of the order item (i.e., a group of items managed in area A of the warehouse, a group of items managed in area B, etc., a group by management floor, etc.), a group divided by department in charge of the order item, or a combination of these, and may be identification information indicating a predetermined group. Each order item group information may be linked to personal user identification information, personal user group information (information obtained by arbitrarily grouping personal user identification information), etc. As a method of linking order identification information (item identification information) corresponding to order group information, the user may register the order information in the order group information when registering the order, or the user may selectively register the order items included in the order at the time of ordering (including after the order is placed until it is stored) into the order group (particularly, the selection may be linked to, for example, management area information within the warehouse, individual user identification information, individual user group information, etc.).

As a result, even if multiple types of goods are ordered at once, workers (individual users) can refer to the inventory information with unnecessary information removed when matching the actual delivered items with the inventory information during the inventory process, and manual work to make such inventory information accessible is not required.

The delivery confirmation unit 134 executes a confirmation process in which delivery confirmation information (e.g., information indicating delivery confirmation completion, unconfirmed, delivery defects, etc.) indicating the status of delivery confirmation (e.g., inspection, etc.) is associated with order information, warehousing information, or delivery information created by the delivery source (order destination) in response to user operation on the first user terminal device 200 or the second user terminal device 300. This delivery confirmation information may be confirmed from any user terminal device, and is preferably confirmed for management purposes in the first user terminal device 200, and is preferably confirmed for subsequent responses such as delivery completion or delivery defects in the third user terminal device 400. Therefore, like the order information, it may be confirmed on this system or on a linked external system (e.g., a warehouse management system, a message system, etc.). The information included in the delivery information may be, for example, delivery source identification information (which may be ordering destination identification information), delivery source information (which may be ordering destination information), delivery item identification information, delivery item name, delivery item quantity information, delivery item unit price information, delivery destination identification information (which may be warehouse destination identification information), delivery amount information (for example, total amount including or excluding tax, etc.). The delivery information may be registered by the user by referring to the delivery note received from the delivery source, or may be registered in part or in whole by importing the delivery note data and reading the entry items, or, if the delivery source uses this system, the delivery information created and registered by the delivery destination user using the third user terminal device 400 may be made available to the ordering user from the delivery information storage unit (not shown) of the storage unit 120.

This makes it possible to easily generate a delivery confirmation status when checking (inspecting) delivered items upon receiving the goods, thus reducing the amount of work required for management, etc.

The accounting information generating unit 135 generates accounting information based on the order information. The accounting information includes, for example, payment schedule information. In this case, the accounting information generating unit 135 estimates the delivery time based on at least one of the desired delivery date information in the order information or the above-mentioned scheduled arrival time information, and generates, stores, and manages the scheduled payment time information based on the delivery time and the scheduled payment amount information corresponding to the order amount information based on the order information as payment schedule information. Then, when the notification deadline reaches a predetermined period before the delivery time, a notification related to the order or warehousing may be sent to at least one of the first user terminal device 200 (ordering terminal), the second user terminal device 300 (warehousing destination terminal), and the third user terminal device 400 (order destination terminal). The notification may be confirmed on this system or on an external system (for example, a warehouse management system or a message system) that is linked to the system. This means that, from each perspective, the notification is useful for order management for the orderer, the notification is useful for warehousing management for the warehousing destination, and the notification is useful for delivery management for the order destination.

As described above, since the scheduled payment information is estimated information, the accounting information generation unit 135 may change it to confirmed payment information, for example, in response to a user operation (for example, it may be treated as confirmed information as is, or the payment timing may be changed by the user's setting operation to make it confirmed information), and at that time the confirmed payment information may be sent to an accounting system linked to this system, or the confirmed payment information may be reflected in the accounting function built on this system.

Furthermore, the accounting information generation unit 135 may generate the scheduled payment time information included in the payment schedule information by referencing accounting rule information (particularly payment time rule information) included in at least one of the user information, supplier information, and receiver information, in addition to referencing the desired delivery date information and the scheduled receipt time information. In other words, since accounting rules such as payment at the end of the following month, payment at the beginning of the following month, or payment at the end of the second month differ depending on each user, supplier, and receiver when delivery is made and an invoice is issued, it is possible to make the payment schedule information more accurate by setting accounting rule information indicating the accounting rules related to such payment due dates in advance for each user or supplier, and referring to this information.

In addition, the accounting information generation unit 135 may generate payment schedule information by referring to delivery information (particularly delivery time information and delivery amount information) instead of order information.

The accounting information generation unit 135 may also generate payment schedule information for each receiving destination by referencing receiving destination identification information linked to at least one of the order information and the delivery information.

The accounting information generated by the accounting information generating unit 135 may also include accounting summary information. That is, the accounting information generating unit 135 may generate accounting summary information in which order-related information such as the number of items ordered and the order amount are tallied based on at least one of the above-mentioned payment schedule information or payment confirmation information generated from the order information. More specifically, the accounting summary information may be, for example, summary information in which the order amount and number of items ordered are tallied for each predetermined period such as monthly (by billing month, by order month, etc.), annually, fiscally, or seasonally, or alternatively or in addition thereto, summary information such as a summary by supplier user, by ordering department, by order type, or by order group.

Figure 6 shows an example of accounting summary information by billing month, where accounting summary information by supplier user is summarized within each billing month. Also, Figure 7 shows an example of detailed information of accounting summary information by supplier user in Figure 6. The detailed information displays the status, order date, delivery date, supplier, delivery destination, total amount, supplementary information, etc. for each applicable order as a breakdown of the payment required for the billing month to a specific supplier. Furthermore, Figure 8 shows an example of invoice information based on accounting information. Invoice information may, for example, display the name, lot, unit price, total amount, etc. of the product to be invoiced.

This makes it possible to check various types of aggregated information, for example, by aggregating the order amount and number of orders by supplier on a monthly basis, it is possible to check the order status with suppliers, or by aggregating the order amount and number of orders by type of order on a seasonal basis, it is possible to check the seasonal needs for goods on an order basis.

The accounting information generated by the accounting information generating unit 135 may also include inventory asset information. That is, the accounting information generating unit 135 at least calculates the inventory quantity or obtains the inventory purchase price based on at least the ordering information (or any of warehousing information, delivery information, and accounting information; hereinafter referred to as "ordering information, etc."), and calculates inventory asset information from the inventory quantity information and inventory purchase price information. The inventory asset information may be calculated, for example, by multiplying the inventory quantity by the inventory purchase price at the time the corresponding inventory was purchased.

The stock quantity information may be input from the first user terminal device 200 or the second user terminal device 300, may be obtained from a warehouse management system linked to this system, or may be calculated by subtracting the number of items consumed obtained by user input or the like from the number of items received based on the order information (or inventory information, or delivery information). More specifically, if the stock quantity can be obtained from the warehouse management system, that value is used as the stock quantity information, and if the stock quantity cannot be obtained directly, the change in stock quantity can be calculated by subtracting the number of items received during a certain period of time, as determined from order information or the like, from the number of items shipped during that period to obtain the stock quantity information.

The stock purchase price information may be set, for example, by presenting past order information, etc., to a user terminal device and selecting it by the user. In that case, if multiple stock purchase prices are included, the user may input the stock quantity for each stock purchase price, or the stock quantity may be extracted in order starting from the order quantity in the latest order information, etc., and the unit price information included in the corresponding order information may be set (i.e., if the stock quantity is 1,000 units, the latest order quantity is 800 units with a unit price of 40 yen, and the next most recent order quantity is 8,500 units with a unit price of 50 yen, then the unit price of 800 units of the stock quantity is set to 40 yen and the unit price of 200 units is set to 50 yen).

This makes it easy to calculate inventory asset information required for accounting periods at the end of a fiscal year, etc.

In this way, by generating accounting information based on order information, delivery information, etc., it is possible to reduce manual work in accounting processing.

The input/output unit 140 is an information input device such as a keyboard and mouse, and an output device such as a display. However, this does not apply if the system is constructed using a cloud server.

<User Terminal Device 200 (300, 400)>
FIG. 9 is a diagram showing the hardware configuration of the user terminal device 200 (300, 400). FIG. 10 is a block diagram showing the functions of the control unit 230. The main hardware configuration of the user terminal device 200 (300, 400) includes, for example, a communication unit 210, a storage unit 220, a control unit 230, and an input/output unit 240, and the description of the same parts as those of the server 100 is omitted. These functional units are realized by executing a predetermined program or application for the user terminal device 200 (300, 400). Note that the illustrated configuration is an example, and other configurations may be used.

The user terminal device 200 (300, 400) may be, for example, an information processing device such as a personal computer, tablet terminal, smartphone, mobile phone, PHS, or PDA, and the input/output unit 240 is, for example, configured with an information output device (e.g., a display) and an information input device (e.g., a keyboard or a mouse) if the user terminal device 200 (300, 400) is configured as a personal computer, and is configured with an information input/output device such as a touch panel if the user terminal device 200 (300, 400) is configured as a smartphone or tablet terminal.

The control unit 230 controls the overall operation of the user terminal device 200 (300, 400) and is composed of a CPU (Central Processing Unit) and the like. As shown in FIG. 7, the control unit 230 includes functional units such as an information transmission/reception unit 231, a request generation unit 232, and a display generation unit 233.

The information transmission/reception unit 231 receives various information and requests from the server 100 and transmits the generated information and requests to the server 100.

The request generation unit 232 generates various requests to be sent from the user terminal device 200 (300, 400).

The display generation unit 233 generates a display in a display area displayed on the display device of the input/output unit 240 of the user terminal device 200 (300, 400) of the inventory information received from the server 100 based on predetermined screen display rule information (e.g., layout information, etc.) stored in the memory unit 220 of the user terminal device 200 (300, 400). Note that the display generation unit 233 is configured as a functional unit of the server 100, not a functional unit of the user terminal device 200 (300, 400), and each piece of information may not be received by the user terminal device 200 (300, 400), but may receive a display image generated within the server 100.

<Processing flow>
A process flow of the information processing method executed by the information processing system 1 will be described with reference to the example of Fig. 11. Fig. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of the process of the information processing system 1 of Fig. 1.

In step S101, the server 100 accepts input of order information in response to a user's input operation from the user terminal device 200.

In the process of step S102, the server 100 uses the inventory information generation unit 133 to extract only the information required at the time of receipt of goods at the receiving destination, such as delivery, from the information included in the order information, and generates inventory information that is required when confirming the delivered goods from the supplier.

In step S103, the server 100 receives a request for inventory information in response to a user operation from the user terminal device 300.

In step S104, the server 100 transmits inventory information for the corresponding destination in response to the inventory information request.

In step S105, the inventory information is displayed on the output section of the user terminal device 300.

In this way, it is possible to create inventory information by extracting necessary information from order information, making it possible to generate inventory information for purposes such as matching delivered items with items scheduled to be in stock, without extracting unit price information that does not need to be shown to workers at the time of stocking.

In addition, in step S106, the server 100 receives a comparison result information request from the user terminal device 200 in response to a user operation.

In the process of step S107, the server 100 uses the delivery confirmation unit 134 to compare at least one of the delivery information with the corresponding order information or inventory information, for example, to check whether the names of the delivery items or the number of delivery items are the same, and generates the comparison result information based on the comparison results of the differences between the two pieces of information.

In step S108, the server 100 transmits the comparison result information to the user terminal device 200.

In step S109, the comparison result information is displayed on the output section of the user terminal device 200.

The processes from step S106 to step S109 do not have to be executed after the processes from step S101 to step S105 as in FIG. 11. For example, they may be executed before steps S102, S103, etc., or both processes may be executed in parallel. Also, step S106 may be a request from the second user terminal device 300, not limited to the first user terminal device 200, or the user terminal device that transmits the request and the user terminal device that receives the comparison result information may be different, such as transmitting comparison result information to the second user terminal device 300 in response to a request from the first user terminal device 200, or transmitting comparison result information to the first user terminal device 200 in response to a request from the second user terminal device 300.

In this way, when checking deliveries, the system can compare order information or inventory information with delivery information, eliminating the need for manual work to check delivery information such as delivery notes.

In addition, in step S110, the server 100 receives a transaction information request from the user terminal device 200 in response to a user operation.

In the process of step S111, the server 100 uses the accounting information generation unit 135 to estimate the delivery time based on at least one of the desired delivery date information in the order information or the above-mentioned scheduled arrival time information, and generates scheduled payment time information based on the delivery time and scheduled payment amount information corresponding to the order amount information based on the order information as scheduled payment information (accounting information). Note that when generating the accounting information, it may further refer to accounting rule information (particularly payment time rule information) included in at least one of the user information, supplier information, and/or warehouse information.

In step S112, the server 100 transmits the accounting information to the user terminal device 200.

In step S113, the accounting information is displayed on the output section of the user terminal device 200.

In this way, by generating accounting information based on order information, etc., it is possible to reduce manual work in accounting processing.

＜Effects＞
As described above, the information processing system according to this embodiment is capable of generating various types of information based on, in particular, order information, and this makes it possible to reduce manual work in each process.

Although the disclosed embodiments have been described above, they can be embodied in various other forms and can be implemented with various omissions, substitutions, and modifications. These embodiments and variations, as well as omissions, substitutions, and modifications, are included in the technical scope of the claims and their equivalents.

Reference Signs List 1 Information processing system 100 Server 200 First user terminal device 300 Second user terminal device 400 Third user terminal device NW Network

Claims (9)

An information processing system including a server that provides a network service to a terminal device,
an order information storage unit that stores order information for a first user associated with the first user identification information to place an order for an item with a supplier;
a stock information generating unit that extracts a portion of information from the order information and generates stock information including the extracted information;
Equipped with
The order information is transmitted from the server to the terminal of the supplier,
The warehousing information is information regarding warehousing to a warehousing destination, and the warehousing destination is a warehousing destination used by the first user,
The inventory information is transmitted from the server to the terminal device of the first user,
The warehousing information generating unit generates the warehousing information including information extracted from the order information for each warehousing destination used by the first user based on warehousing destination information included in the order information.
An information processing system comprising: The information processing system according to claim 1, further comprising an accounting information generation unit that generates inventory purchase price information based on the order information. The information processing system according to claim 2, characterized in that the accounting information generation unit extracts order quantities from the inventory quantities in order, starting with the order quantity indicated in the most recent order information, based on the order information and inventory quantity information indicating the inventory quantity, and sets the unit price information included in the order information corresponding to the extracted quantities as the inventory purchase unit price information corresponding to those quantities . 3. The information processing system according to claim 2, wherein the inventory purchase price information is set based on operation information of a first user by presenting the order information on the terminal device of the first user.
The information processing system according to claim 3, characterized in that the accounting information generation unit calculates inventory asset information based on the inventory purchase unit price information and the inventory quantity information. 4. The information processing system according to claim 3, wherein the transaction information generation unit obtains the inventory information from an input from the terminal device of the first user . The information processing system according to claim 3, characterized in that the accounting information generation unit obtains the inventory information from a linked warehouse management system. An information processing method by an information processing system including a server that provides a network service to a terminal device, comprising:
storing, by an order information storage unit, order information for a first user associated with the first user identification information to place an order for an item with a supplier;
A step of extracting some information from the order information by a warehousing information generating unit and generating warehousing information including the extracted information;
Including,
The order information is transmitted from the server to the terminal of the supplier,
The warehousing information is information regarding warehousing to a warehousing destination, and the warehousing destination is a warehousing destination used by the first user,
The inventory information is transmitted from the server to the terminal device of the first user,
The method further includes a step of generating, by the warehousing information generating unit, the warehousing information including information extracted from the order information for each warehousing destination used by the first user, based on warehousing destination information included in the order information.
23. An information processing method comprising: A program for controlling an information processing system including a server that provides a network service to a terminal device,
storing, by an order information storage unit, order information for a first user associated with the first user identification information to place an order for an item with a supplier;
A step of extracting some information from the order information by a warehousing information generating unit and generating warehousing information including the extracted information;
on the server,
The order information is transmitted from the server to the terminal of the supplier,
The warehousing information is information regarding warehousing to a warehousing destination, and the warehousing destination is a warehousing destination used by the first user,
The inventory information is transmitted from the server to the terminal device of the first user,
and causing the server to execute a step of generating, by the warehousing information generating unit, the warehousing information including information extracted from the order information for each warehousing destination used by the first user, based on warehousing destination information included in the order information.
A program characterized by:

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