KR102494168B1 - Method and apparatus for managing stock - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to an inventory management method, and more particularly, to order the right amount in a timely manner for insufficient inventory, and to establish a plan for future promotional activities for items expected to be promotional items such as excess or unhealthy inventory. An inventory management method and apparatus capable of maintaining inventory in quantity and thereby minimizing inventory management costs.

Description

Inventory management method and apparatus {Method and apparatus for managing stock}

The present invention relates to an inventory management method, and more particularly, to order the right amount in a timely manner for insufficient inventory, and to establish a plan for future promotional activities for items expected to be promotional target inventory, such as excess or unsound inventory. It's about inventory management.

In business management, inventory causes costs to the firm, and these costs incur losses to the firm. Therefore, maintaining the adequacy and soundness of inventory is an important issue in corporate management.

Inventory management and order timing or inventory exhaustion planning are processes that are organically connected, and when each process is performed separately without linking each other's information, it is a cause of inefficiency in inventory management. has become

However, since the conventional inventory management method simply displays the quantity of an item or presents only the inventory of the current item, it is only a means of simply providing information, and there is a problem that it cannot be used as a means to organically utilize various information. . Accordingly, it is necessary to develop a technology capable of saving time and cost of inventory management by proposing an appropriate order quantity and establishing a plan capable of appropriately handling excess or unhealthy inventory.

Registered Patent Publication No. 10-1753480 "Integrated automatic inventory monitoring and change system by open market"

The technical problem to be solved according to the present invention is to analyze the appropriate inventory of items that are exhausted by the inventory exhaustion target, and use this to generate data for an appropriate order amount proposal and promotion plan, thereby maintaining inventory in an optimal quantity. It is an object of the present invention to provide an inventory management method and apparatus capable of minimizing the cost of managing inventory thereby.

Another technical problem to be solved according to the present invention is that in this embodiment, the total number of items in each category and the stock for each category are displayed, and when the corresponding category is selected, various information about the lower layer of the category is displayed. However, the purpose is to provide data that can easily identify the entire inventory to the manager who manages the inventory.

Another technical problem to be solved according to the present invention is to provide an inventory management method that can easily identify the current inventory and the inventory to be promoted at the same time.

The technical problems of the present invention are not limited to the technical problems mentioned above, and other technical problems not mentioned will be clearly understood by those skilled in the art from the description below.

In order to solve the above technical problem, an inventory management method according to an embodiment of the present invention is a method performed by a computing device, generating inventory data for a plurality of items representing a hierarchical structure, the plurality of Calculating an increase or decrease in order quantity between a first time point and a second time point based on the order quantity data for the plurality of items to calculate an appropriate inventory for the item, analyzing an external characteristic factor related to the increase or decrease in order quantity, Determining an appropriate inventory for the plurality of items by removing the external characteristic factor from the order quantity data at the first point in time, when it is determined that the external characteristic factor affects the increase or decrease in the order quantity, and the appropriate inventory It may include generating an order amount suggestion according to.

In one embodiment, the analyzing of the external characteristic factors may include crawling issues related to the plurality of items generated during a period in which an increase or decrease in the order quantity of the inventory is calculated.

In one embodiment, the crawling of issues related to the plurality of items includes collecting issues related to regional characteristics of the items to be consumed, and determining the extent to which issues related to the regional characteristics affect the increase or decrease in order quantity of the items. It may include quantitatively determining, and calculating the increased or decreased order quantity according to the degree of influence.

In one embodiment, the step of crawling issues related to the plurality of items includes quantitatively determining the extent to which a periodic characteristic of an item being consumed influences an increase or decrease in order volume of the item, and the extent to which the influence Calculating the increased or decreased order quantity according to the method may be included.

In one embodiment, the crawling of issues related to the plurality of items may include collecting issues related to social characteristics of the items to be consumed, determining the degree to which the issues related to social characteristics affect the increase or decrease in order quantity of the items. It may include quantitatively determining, and calculating the increased or decreased order quantity according to the degree of influence.

In one embodiment, the generating of inventory data for a plurality of items representing the hierarchical structure includes, when a category of an upper hierarchy is selected, indicating an inventory of an item indicating a category of a lower hierarchy with respect to the upper hierarchy. can do.

In one embodiment, when a category of an upper layer is selected, the step of displaying the inventory of an item indicating a category of a lower layer with respect to the upper layer displays the inventory of the item in a first line graph that changes in time series order, The method may further include displaying a promotional target stock among the items in stock as a second broken line graph below the first broken line graph.

In one embodiment, the step of counting the excess inventory of the item, and establishing a sales plan for exhausting the excess inventory in which a period in which the excess inventory can be exhausted is reflected, further comprising: Generating data representing inventory according to a hierarchical structure may include displaying a first bar graph indicating excess inventory of the item below the second broken line graph.

In one embodiment, the method further comprises counting unwholesome inventory according to a stock expiration date of the item, and establishing a sales promotion plan for exhausting the unwholesome inventory in which a period during which the unwholesome inventory can be exhausted is reflected. Generating data representing inventory of a plurality of items according to a hierarchical structure may include displaying a second bar graph indicating unhealthy inventory of the items below the second line graph.

An inventory management device according to another embodiment of the present invention for solving the above technical problem includes a processor, a memory, and a computer program loaded into the memory and executed by the processor, wherein the computer program comprises: , An instruction for generating inventory data for a plurality of items representing a hierarchical structure, a first time point and a second time point based on the order amount data for the plurality of items to calculate an appropriate inventory for the plurality of items. An instruction for calculating an increase or decrease in the order quantity between time points, an instruction for analyzing an external characteristic factor related to the increase or decrease in the order quantity, and when it is determined that the external characteristic factor affects the increase or decrease in the order quantity, the order quantity data at the first point in time An instruction for determining an appropriate inventory for the plurality of items by removing external characteristic factors, and an instruction for generating an order amount proposal based on the appropriate inventory may be included.

1 and 2 are schematic representations of an inventory management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 is a flow chart of an inventory management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.
4 is an example of an order screen displayed according to the inventory management method of the present embodiment.
5 and 6 are examples of inventory monitoring screens displayed according to the inventory management method of the present embodiment.
7 is a diagram for explaining each hierarchical structure of items displayed on the inventory monitoring screen.
8 to 10 are diagrams for explaining in detail some embodiments of step S300 described with reference to FIG. 3 .
11 is a diagram for explaining a step of establishing a sales promotion plan for excessive inventory and unsound inventory of items and displaying related data.
FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying the inventory of the item of FIG. 11 and various data related thereto as a graph.
13 is a hardware configuration diagram of an inventory management device according to another embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings. Advantages and features of the present invention, and methods of achieving them, will become clear with reference to the detailed description of the following embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings. However, the technical idea of the present invention is not limited to the following embodiments and can be implemented in various different forms, only the following embodiments complete the technical idea of the present invention, and in the technical field to which the present invention belongs It is provided to fully inform those skilled in the art of the scope of the present invention, and the technical spirit of the present invention is only defined by the scope of the claims.

In adding reference numerals to components of each drawing, it should be noted that the same components have the same numerals as much as possible even if they are displayed on different drawings. In addition, in describing the present invention, if it is determined that a detailed description of a related known configuration or function may obscure the gist of the present invention, the detailed description will be omitted.

Unless otherwise defined, all terms (including technical and scientific terms) used in this specification may be used in a meaning commonly understood by those of ordinary skill in the art to which the present invention belongs. In addition, terms defined in commonly used dictionaries are not interpreted ideally or excessively unless explicitly specifically defined. Terminology used herein is for describing the embodiments and is not intended to limit the present invention. In this specification, singular forms also include plural forms unless specifically stated otherwise in a phrase.

In addition, in describing the components of the present invention, terms such as first, second, A, B, (a), and (b) may be used. These terms are only used to distinguish the component from other components, and the nature, order, or order of the corresponding component is not limited by the term. When an element is described as being “connected,” “coupled to,” or “connected” to another element, that element is directly connected or connectable to the other element, but there is another element between the elements. It will be understood that elements may be “connected”, “coupled” or “connected”.

Hereinafter, some embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 and 2 are schematic representations of an inventory management system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 1 , the inventory management system according to an embodiment of the present invention may include an inventory management device 100a, a manager terminal 200, and a target for inventory exhaustion 100b.

The inventory management device 100a of FIG. 1 may be a device for managing inventory of a plurality of items sold according to an order. Items within this specification may include medical supplies, medicines, medical equipment, dental supplies, implant supplies, indoor supplies, etc., but are not limited thereto, and may refer to various items that can be managed in stock. The inventory management device 100a may manage inventory used or exhausted by the inventory exhaustion target 100b.

The inventory management device 100a may receive order quantity data or inventory quantity data from the stock exhaustion target 100b to calculate an appropriate inventory, and accordingly, establish a sales plan for the data and excess inventory for the order quantity proposal, and the manager terminal ( 200) can be sent. Adequate inventory may mean the most efficient quantity in cost of maintaining inventory for a plurality of items.

The target of inventory exhaustion 100b may be a supply entity such as a production plant that produces items, a warehouse that stores produced items, or a wholesaler, or a retailer that purchases items from the supply entities and uses them to conduct commercial activities. , hospitals, medical offices, marts, department stores, etc. may mean intermediary supply subjects or consuming subjects, etc., but are not limited thereto, and may mean various subjects where items are stored and inventories are managed. The out-of-stock object 100b may determine the number of items and transmit inventory amount data for the item to the inventory management device 100a.

The manager terminal 200 may display data related to various stocks generated by the inventory management device 100a, and may approve an order amount proposal and a sales promotion plan received from the inventory management device 100a.

Inventory management device (100a) and inventory exhaustion object (100b) in this specification is expressed as a separate entity, but this is separated for description of the technology, as shown in Figure 2, the inventory management device (100a) and the inventory exhaustion object (100b) ) may be implemented as one inventory management device 100. In addition, as shown in FIG. 2, the manager terminal 200 may be composed of a plurality of terminals 200a to 200c, and in this case, the inventory management device 100 of FIG. Data may be sent, and approval for an order amount proposal and a promotion plan may be received from the plurality of manager terminals 200a to 200c.

The inventory management system according to an embodiment of the present invention analyzes the appropriate inventory of items that are exhausted by the inventory exhaustion target 100b, and uses this to generate data for an appropriate order amount proposal and promotion plan to optimize the quantity. Since inventory can be maintained, there is an advantage of minimizing the cost of managing inventory.

3 is a flow chart of an inventory management method according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In step S100 of FIG. 3 , inventory data for a plurality of items to be displayed according to a hierarchical structure may be generated. Items may be classified into an upper layer category and a lower layer category according to the category of each item. Items can be classified into items that are increasingly subdivided from higher-tier categories to lower-tier categories. For example, when a category of an upper layer is all items, a category of a lower layer may include implants, materials, medical equipment, and medicines. In addition, when the category of the upper layer is an implant, the category of the lower layer may be composed of fixture, upper part, tool, kit, and the like. Similarly, when the category of the upper layer is one of Fixture, Upper Level, Tool, and Kit, the category of the lower layer may consist of subdivided items for each item. A specific example for this will be described later.

In this step, data on the order screen representing the order quantity for the inventory of the item, the order quantity proposal, the latest order, and the order type may be generated in a standardized structure. In addition, data on inventory status of items from the past to the present may be generated in a standardized structure, and detailed examples thereof will be described later.

In step S200 , an order quantity increase or decrease between the first time point and the second time point may be calculated based on the order amount data for the plurality of items in order to calculate the appropriate inventory for the plurality of items. The first point of view is a point in time in the past, and may mean a point immediately before or a point in the past specified by the user. The second viewpoint may refer to a current viewpoint or a past viewpoint specified by a user.

In this step, order increase and order decrease can be calculated based on the historical database of the inventory of the item. In this step, an order quantity increase or decrease may be calculated through a difference between the order quantity at the first time point and the order quantity at the second time point by comparing order quantities between the past first time point and the current second time point for the item. As the order increase and order decrease are calculated by this step, basic data for calculating an appropriate inventory amount may be set.

In step S300, external characteristic factors related to increase or decrease in order quantity may be analyzed. In the case of an increase or decrease in order quantity, it may be caused by various factors, and the order of an item may increase or decrease due to factors related to the item itself (eg, improvement in quality of the item, decrease in cost of the item, etc.). In this case, since the factor for the item does not change, the corresponding order may continue to increase or decrease in the future.

However, if the increase or decrease in order quantity is caused by a factor other than the item itself, the factor may be temporary, and thus the factor may be treated as noise that interferes with calculating an appropriate inventory. That is, since the order quantity changed by the external characteristic factor differs from the amount of inventory to be exhausted in the future, it is necessary to correct the order quantity to an appropriate quantity by removing the external characteristic factor. A specific example of analyzing the external characteristic factor will be described later.

Thereafter, in step S400, an appropriate inventory from which the external characteristic factors determined to affect the increase or decrease in order quantity are removed may be determined. As the quantity quantitatively influenced by the external characteristic factor analyzed in step S300 is removed, correction is performed in which the external characteristic factor for the past order quantity is removed, and according to the order quantity from which the past external characteristic factor is removed An appropriate order amount to be placed at present is determined, and the current appropriate inventory may be determined using the determined amount.

In step S500, an order amount proposal according to an appropriate inventory may be generated. When the order amount proposal is approved by the manager terminal, an order for the corresponding item may be automatically received. The order amount suggestion may be data recommending a quantity and timing for placing an order. In one embodiment, the order amount suggestion may be a command for automatically placing an order for an item, and in this case, the order for the corresponding item may be automatically received without approval of the manager terminal.

The inventory management method according to the present invention has the advantage of assisting the manager to easily manage inventory by automatically ordering items at the appropriate time without insufficient inventory through analyzing the currently required order quantity and suggesting the analyzed order quantity. .

So far, the overall contents of the inventory management method according to an embodiment of the present invention have been schematically described. Hereinafter, examples in which the inventory management method is actually implemented and displayed as a program will be described with reference to FIGS. 4 to 8 .

4 is an example of an order screen displayed according to the inventory management method of this embodiment, and FIGS. 5 and 6 are examples of inventory monitoring screens displayed according to the inventory management method of this embodiment.

Referring to FIG. 4 , order-related data 10 may be displayed on a program in which an inventory management method is implemented. For example, for each item, order quantity, stocking request date, order quantity suggested quantity, order quantity proposed stocking request date, latest order quantity, latest order issue date, order type indicating increase or decrease of orders, current stock, reference stock, safety stock , L/T, sales forecast quantity, MOQ, and approval status can be displayed.

Here, order increase 111 or order decrease 112 may be displayed in the order type item 11 . The order increase 111 or order decrease 112 indicates an increase or decrease in order quantity compared to a time in the past, and can be easily identified visually by displaying a symbol or color.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 5, an inventory monitoring screen 20 indicating the status and trend of inventory may be displayed. In the inventory monitoring screen 20, each category is displayed separately on the upper side of the screen, and the inventory for each item may be displayed as time-sequential data below it. In this case, the inventory data of each item may be displayed as a line graph and a bar graph. In FIG. 5 , inventories of implant items, material items, medical equipment items, and pharmaceutical items may be displayed as a graph.

The stock amount according to the time of each item may be displayed below the polygonal line graph of the stock monitoring screen 20 . Specifically, the inventory amount of each item is displayed by being divided into months, weeks, days, and hours, and the current real-time inventory amount may be displayed according to embodiments. That is, the inventory monitoring screen 20 may be displayed by classifying the inventory amount for each period. The stock monitoring screen 20 may display the stock quantity according to each period as an implicit number. For example, the inventory of all items in March may be 919.5k, and the inventory of implant items may be displayed as 726.0k. Below that, inventory for fixtures, upper parts, tools, and kits, which are lower-tier items of implants, can be displayed respectively. In addition, the selected period is displayed as April, the inventory of items for the 1st to 4th weeks of April can be displayed, and the selected date is displayed as the 29th (Wednesday), so that the current inventory and number of ordered items for that day , the number of suitable & healthy items and their total can be displayed. In addition, inventory of items to be promoted may be displayed. Inventory of promotional items can be classified as excess or unhealthy items.

At this time, the stock quantity of each implant, material, medical equipment, medicine, etc. is displayed on a weekly basis for the near past or future based on the day the stock quantity is displayed, and a smaller monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis as it moves away from the near past or future. Growing from units to larger units can indicate past or future inventory.

In addition, when the implant item is selected by clicking the implant tab, which is a parent item in FIG. 6, the inventory for fixture, upper part, tool, and kit, which are sub-items of the implant item, is displayed as a graph on the upper side as shown in the screen 30. It can be. And below it, the stock quantity according to the time of each item for Fixture, upper part, Tool, and Kit, which are sub-items of the upper implant item, can be displayed. For example, when the implant navigation tab is selected, the navigation tabs of Fixture, Top, Tool, and Kit can be displayed.

At this time, the stock quantity of each fixture, upper part, tool, and kit, based on the day on which the stock quantity is displayed, is displayed on a weekly basis for the near past or future, and on a monthly, quarterly, or yearly basis as it moves away from the near past or future. Growing from units to larger units can indicate past or future inventory.

7 is a diagram for explaining each hierarchical structure of items displayed on the inventory monitoring screen. Referring to FIG. 7 , the uppermost layer (a) is composed of implants, materials, medical devices, and medicines, and implants, materials, medical devices, and medicines may be displayed in lower layers, respectively. If the lower layer (b) of the implant, which is the upper layer (a), is selected, the lower layers for fixture, upper part, tool, and kit can be displayed. When the lower layer (c) of the fixture, which is the upper layer (b), is selected, the lower layers for TS, SS, US, and ET can be displayed. When the lower layer (d) of TS, which is the upper layer (c), is selected, detailed items such as TS III CA No-M and TSIV BA ULTRA may be displayed.

As such, in this embodiment, the total number of items in each category and the inventory for each category are displayed, and when the category is selected, various information about the lower hierarchy of the category is displayed, so that the manager who manages the inventory is provided with the entire inventory. It can provide easily identifiable data.

8 to 10 are diagrams for explaining in detail some embodiments of step S300 described with reference to FIG. 3 .

In step S300, external characteristic factors related to the increase or decrease in order quantity may be analyzed. In this step, issues related to a plurality of items generated during the period in which the increase or decrease in inventory order quantity is calculated in step S310 may be crawled. For example, the item may be searched on the Internet for a period in which an increase or decrease in order quantity is calculated, and a result thereof may be crawled. These issues may be information collected from news, blogs, videos, or SNS, and the source of the collected information is not limited.

In this step, issues related to regional characteristics of consumed items, periodic characteristics of consumed items, or social characteristics of consumed items can be classified as embodiments of a process of crawling issues related to items.

First, as shown in FIG. 8 , issues related to regional characteristics of items consumed may be collected in step S311. Issues related to regional characteristics may mean the name of a region.

In step S312, crawling related to the item is performed, and through string extraction and semantic analysis, when it is determined that the order amount of the item is related to the word of the region in news, blog videos, or SNS, etc., the increase or decrease in the order amount for the item corresponds to the corresponding region. It can be judged that it is influenced by regional characteristics. In this case, the degree of influence can be converted into a quantitative value according to the degree in which the size of data collected by crawling and the increase or decrease in orders are proportional. For example, the size of the data on an item collected by crawl related to the item in April is 10 kb, the increase or decrease in the order volume of the corresponding item in April occurs by 10%, and the data collected by crawl related to the item in May If the size of the updated data is 20 kb and the increase or decrease in the order quantity of the item in May is 20%, it can be judged that the increase or decrease in the order quantity of the item has been affected because the size of this data and the increase or decrease in the order quantity are proportional. there is. If it is continuously proportional to the increase and decrease in order volume and the size of the data, it is judged that the influence is gradually greater, and if it is proportional, a quantitative score for the impact is given 100 points, so that issues related to regional characteristics are completely related to product orders. can be determined to be If the size of the data collected by crawling is proportional to the increase in the order amount and some are not proportional to the increase in the order amount, the score corresponding to the decrease according to the ratio can be quantitatively calculated. For example, if the size of the data collected by crawl increases by 2 times every month and the order quantity increases by 1.6 times, the score for impact is calculated as 1.6/2 x 100, so that issues related to regional characteristics are 80 to product orders. A quantitative score can be calculated for the effect of regional characteristics on the order quantity in proportion to the size of the data collected by crawling.

In addition, if the size of the data collected by crawling is inversely proportional to the increase in the order amount, 0 points may be given as a quantitative degree of the impact. It should be noted that the above-described method is illustrative and not limited thereto, and may be applied to various embodiments for calculating a correlation between the size of crawled data and an increase or decrease in order quantity.

In step S313, the increased or decreased order quantity may be calculated according to the degree to which issues related to regional characteristics affect, and accordingly, appropriate inventory considering regional characteristics may be determined.

For example, if the amount of data collected by crawling has increased in relation to the regional characteristics of Seoul, and if the order for an item called implant is related to the area called Seoul, it is judged that the order amount has increased at the first point in time, the Seoul area In , it can be judged that the increase in orders for implant items had an effect. In this case, when determining the appropriate inventory of implants in the Seoul region at the second time point, a different order quantity from the first time point may be calculated considering the regional characteristics, and the appropriate stock may be determined. The above example is not limited to the above example.

As shown in FIG. 9 , in step S314 , information in which the periodic characteristics of items consumed affect the increase or decrease in the order quantity may be quantitatively determined. For example, in December, if the consumption of implant items is repeatedly proportional to 1.5 times compared to usual and the order increases or decreases, it may be determined that the order quantity of the item is increased or decreased during that period.

Thereafter, in step S315, an appropriate inventory is determined according to the degree to which the periodic characteristics of the item are consumed, and an appropriate order quantity corresponding to this is determined.

In addition, as shown in FIG. 10 , issues related to social characteristics of items consumed may be collected in step S316 . Issues related to social characteristics may refer to issues related to various factors such as consumption trends and avoidance.

In step S317, crawling related to a plurality of items is performed, and contents related to diseases such as Corona 19 or disasters are extracted through string extraction and semantic analysis, and the extracted strings and semantic analyzed contents are news, blog videos, or SNS. If it is judged that the order amount of the item is related to a word generated from a disease such as COVID-19 or a social issue such as a disaster, the increase or decrease in order amount for the item may be determined to be affected by the social issue. In this case, the degree of influence can be converted into a quantitative value according to the degree in which the size of data collected by crawling and the increase or decrease in orders are proportional. For example, the size of the data about the item collected by crawl related to the item in April is 10kb, the increase and decrease in the order amount of the corresponding item in April occurs by 10%, and the data collected by crawl related to the item in May If the size of the updated data is 20 kb and the increase or decrease in the order quantity of the item in May is 20%, it can be judged that the increase or decrease in the order quantity of the item has been affected because the size of this data and the increase or decrease in the order quantity are proportional. there is. Depending on the increase and decrease in the order amount and the size of the data, if it continues to be proportional, it is judged that the effect is gradually greater, and if it is proportional, 100 points are awarded to determine that the issue of social characteristics is completely related to the order of the product. If some are proportional to the increase in the order quantity and some are not proportional to the increase in order quantity, the score corresponding to the decrease according to the ratio can be quantitatively calculated. For example, if the size of the data collected by crawling increases by 2 times every month, but the order quantity increases by 1.6 times, the score for impact is calculated as 1.6/2 x 100, so that issues related to social characteristics are 80 to product orders. A quantitative score can be calculated for the effect of social issues on the order quantity in proportion to the size of the data collected by crawling.

Thereafter, in step S318, the order quantity affected by the issue related to social characteristics is calculated, and after being excluded from the increased order quantity at the first time point, an appropriate order quantity at the second time point may be calculated.

11 is a diagram for explaining a step of establishing a sales promotion plan for excessive inventory and unsound inventory of items and displaying related data.

Referring to FIG. 11 , when an item is determined to be excessive or unhealthy inventory, a sales promotion plan for such inventory may be established, and information about the item may be displayed.

First, in step S10, a promotion plan for the excess inventory of an item is established, and in step S11, the excess inventory of the item may be counted. Excess inventory of an item may be calculated as remaining inventory from the predicted appropriate inventory, or may be information collected in real time from a current inventory depletion target.

Thereafter, in step S12, a sales promotion plan for exhausting excess inventory reflecting a period during which excess inventory can be exhausted may be established. The promotion plan means the marketing time and marketing cost required to exhaust inventory, and may include information on the marketing start point.

Also, in step S20, a promotion plan for unwholesome inventory of items may be established. Unsound inventory may mean, but is not limited to, an item whose shelf life of an item is short or has passed, or an item for which a semi-finished product from which the item can be assembled does not exist.

In step S22, the unhealthy stock of items may be counted. The unhealthy inventory of an item may be information collected in real time from a current out-of-stock target. Thereafter, in step S22, a sales promotion plan for exhaustion of unwholesome inventory reflecting the period during which unwholesome inventory can be exhausted may be established.

When data representing inventory of a plurality of items according to a hierarchical structure is generated in step S100, when a category of an upper layer is selected in step S110, data displaying the inventory of items indicating a category of a lower layer with respect to the upper layer is generated. can be created Reference is made to FIG. 12 to describe this embodiment in more detail.

FIG. 12 is a diagram illustrating an example of displaying inventory of the item of FIG. 11 and various data related thereto in a graph 1. Referring to FIG. When step S110 is performed, the category for each item may be displayed as material (2), and in step S111, the stock of material item (2) is displayed as a first line graph (3) that changes in time series order It can be. At this time, the current S/C may be displayed as 3.3(3-1) and the target S/C may be displayed as 3.0(3-2).

In step S112 , among the inventory of the material item 2 , the stock to be a promotion target may be displayed as a second broken line graph 4 below the first broken line graph 3 .

At this time, in step S113, a first bar graph indicating the excess inventory of the item may be displayed below the second broken line graph. In addition, in step S114, a second bar graph indicating unsound inventory of items may be displayed below the second broken line graph.

As such, the inventory management method according to the present embodiment displays excess inventory and unhealthy inventory simultaneously when information on each item is displayed, so that the manager can easily identify the current inventory and the inventory to be promoted at the same time. can provide

Various embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 12 so far. Hereinafter, an exemplary computing device 500 capable of implementing the devices described in various embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to FIG. 13 .

13 is an exemplary hardware configuration diagram illustrating a computing device 500 .

As shown in FIG. 13, the computing device 500 includes a memory 530 that loads a computer program 591 executed by one or more processors 510, a bus 550, and a communication interface 570. And, it may include a storage 590 for storing the computer program 591. However, only components related to the embodiment of the present invention are shown in FIG. 13 . Accordingly, those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains can know that other general-purpose components may be further included in addition to the components shown in FIG. 13 .

The processor 510 controls the overall operation of each component of the computing device 500 . The processor 510 may include at least one of a Central Processing Unit (CPU), a Micro Processor Unit (MPU), a Micro Controller Unit (MCU), a Graphic Processing Unit (GPU), or any type of processor well known in the art. can be configured to include Also, the processor 510 may perform an operation for at least one application or program for executing a method/operation according to various embodiments of the present disclosure. Computing device 500 may include one or more processors.

Memory 530 stores various data, commands and/or information. Memory 530 may load one or more programs 591 from storage 590 to execute methods/operations according to various embodiments of the present invention. For example, when the computer program 591 is loaded into the memory 530, the logic (or module) shown in FIG. 4 may be implemented on the memory 530. An example of the memory 530 may be RAM, but is not limited thereto.

The bus 550 provides a communication function between components of the computing device 500 . The bus 550 may be implemented as various types of buses such as an address bus, a data bus, and a control bus.

The communication interface 570 supports wired and wireless Internet communication of the computing device 500 . The communication interface 570 may support various communication methods other than Internet communication. To this end, the communication interface 570 may include a communication module well known in the art.

Storage 590 may non-temporarily store one or more computer programs 591 . The storage 590 may be a non-volatile memory such as read only memory (ROM), erasable programmable ROM (EPROM), electrically erasable programmable ROM (EEPROM), flash memory, or the like, a hard disk, a removable disk, or a device well known in the art. It may be configured to include any known type of computer-readable recording medium.

Computer program 591 may include one or more instructions in which methods/operations according to various embodiments of the invention are implemented. When computer program 591 is loaded into memory 530, processor 510 may execute the one or more instructions to perform methods/acts according to various embodiments of the present invention.

In one embodiment, the computer program 591 includes instructions for generating data displaying inventory of items indicating categories in the upper hierarchy and inventory of items indicating categories in the lower hierarchy according to a hierarchical structure. ), an instruction for calculating an order amount increase or decrease between a first time point and a second time point based on the order amount data of the plurality of items to calculate an appropriate inventory of the plurality of items, and analyzing external characteristic factors related to the order amount increase or decrease an instruction for determining appropriate inventory of the plurality of items by removing the external characteristic factor from the order quantity data at the first point in time, when it is determined that the external characteristic factor has an effect on the increase or decrease in the order quantity; and It may include instructions for generating order quantity suggestions based on adequate inventory.

The technical idea of the present invention described so far can be implemented as computer readable code on a computer readable medium. The computer-readable recording medium may be, for example, a removable recording medium (CD, DVD, Blu-ray disc, USB storage device, removable hard disk) or a fixed recording medium (ROM, RAM, computer-equipped hard disk). can The computer program recorded on the computer-readable recording medium may be transmitted to another computing device through a network such as the Internet, installed in the other computing device, and thus used in the other computing device.

Although the embodiments of the present invention have been described with reference to the accompanying drawings, those skilled in the art can implement the present invention in other specific forms without changing the technical spirit or essential features. can understand that there is Therefore, the embodiments described above should be understood as illustrative in all respects and not limiting. The protection scope of the present invention should be construed according to the claims below, and all technical ideas within the equivalent range should be construed as being included in the scope of the technical ideas defined by the present invention.

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In a method performed by a computing device,
generating inventory data for a plurality of items representing a hierarchical structure;
Calculating an increase or decrease in order quantity between a first time point and a second time point based on order quantity data for the plurality of items to calculate an appropriate inventory for the plurality of items;
Analyzing external characteristic factors related to the increase or decrease in the order quantity;
determining appropriate inventory for the plurality of items by removing the external characteristic factor from the order quantity data at the first point in time when it is determined that the external characteristic factor affects the increase or decrease in the order quantity; and
Generating an order quantity proposal according to the appropriate inventory,
The external characteristic factor includes a character string extracted from data obtained by searching the item on the Internet for a period in which the increase or decrease in the order quantity is calculated, and a result of semantic analysis of the extracted character string.
Inventory management method. According to claim 1,
Analyzing the external characteristic factors,
Crawling issues related to the plurality of items occurring during the period in which the increase or decrease in the order amount of the inventory is calculated,
Inventory management method. According to claim 2,
The step of crawling issues related to the plurality of items,
Collecting issues related to the regional characteristics of items consumed;
Quantitatively determining the degree to which the issue of the regional characteristics affects the increase or decrease in the order quantity of the item; and
Comprising the step of calculating the increased or decreased order quantity according to the degree of influence,
Inventory management method. According to claim 2,
The step of crawling issues related to the plurality of items,
quantitatively determining the degree to which the periodic characteristics of an item to be consumed affect the increase or decrease in the order quantity of the item; and
Comprising the step of calculating the increased or decreased order quantity according to the degree of influence,
Inventory management method. According to claim 2,
The step of crawling issues related to the plurality of items,
crawling data obtained as a result of searching for items to be consumed on the Internet;
extracting a string from the crawled data and performing semantic analysis on the extracted string; and
Quantitatively determining the extent to which a character string extracted from the crawled data or a result of semantic analysis on the extracted character string affects an increase or decrease in order quantity of the item; and
Comprising the step of calculating the increased or decreased order quantity according to the degree of influence,
Inventory management method. According to claim 1,
Generating inventory data for a plurality of items representing the hierarchical structure,
When a category of the upper layer is selected, displaying the inventory of items indicating the category of the lower layer with respect to the upper layer,
Inventory management method. According to claim 6,
If the category of the upper layer is selected, the step of indicating the inventory of the item indicating the category of the lower layer with respect to the upper layer,
Displaying the inventory of the item as a first line graph that changes in time series order,
Including the step of displaying a promotional target stock among the inventory of the item as a second broken line graph below the first broken line graph,
Inventory management method. According to claim 7,
counting excess inventory of the item; and
Based on the excess inventory of the item obtained as a result of the counting, the recent sales volume of the item, and the target exhaustion period of the excess inventory, information on marketing time required for exhaustion of excess inventory, marketing cost, and marketing start point is generated Including more steps,
Generating data representing the inventory of the plurality of items according to a hierarchical structure,
Displaying a first bar graph indicating excess inventory of the item below the second broken line graph,
Inventory management method. According to claim 7,
counting unsound inventory according to the inventory validity period of the item; and
Generating information about a marketing time required for exhaustion of the unwholesome stock, a marketing cost, and a marketing start point based on the unwholesome inventory of the item obtained as a result of the counting and the recent sales volume of the item;
Generating data representing the inventory of the plurality of items according to a hierarchical structure,
displaying a second bar graph indicating unsound inventory of the item below the second broken line graph.
Inventory management method. processor;
Memory; and
A computer program loaded into the memory and executed by the processor,
The computer program,
instructions for generating inventory data for a plurality of items representing a hierarchical structure;
an instruction for calculating an increase or decrease in order quantity between a first time point and a second time point based on the order amount data for the plurality of items in order to calculate an appropriate inventory for the plurality of items;
an instruction for analyzing an external characteristic factor related to the increase or decrease in the order quantity;
an instruction for determining appropriate inventory for the plurality of items by removing the external characteristic factor from the order quantity data at the first point in time when it is determined that the external characteristic factor affects the increase or decrease in the order quantity; and
Includes instructions for generating order quantity suggestions according to the appropriate inventory;
The external characteristic factor includes a character string extracted from data obtained by searching the item on the Internet for a period in which the increase or decrease in the order quantity is calculated, and a result of semantic analysis of the extracted character string.
Inventory management device.

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