KR20010093878A - Electronic Commerce System of Reverse-Auction Type for Scientific Articles and Equipments and Method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: An electronic commerce system and method of scientific appliances using re-auction method are provided to buy a scientific appliances at low price by performing a re-auction method of electronic commerce through a multi-item simultaneous tender. CONSTITUTION: A plurality of buyer terminal(1) is connected with a plurality of seller terminal(3a, 3b) through a system server(5). A plurality of buyer requests for an estimate of multi-item articles through internet. A plurality of seller presents the estimate through a plurality of seller terminal(3a, 3b). The system server(5) notifies the result of successful bid and the information of the buyer to the corresponding seller, and controls for a contract.

Description

Electronic Commerce System of Reverse-Auction Type for Scientific Articles and Equipments and Method

The present invention relates to a scientific equipment electronic commerce system and method of the reverse auction method, in particular, the purchase of scientific equipment traded in a small quantity, multi-item by the multi-item simultaneous bidding of the e-commerce method in which the buyer is fast, simple and inexpensive The present invention relates to a scientific equipment electronic commerce system of reverse auction type that can be purchased at a cost, and a method thereof.

In general, electronic commerce refers to a network-based cyber commerce that advertises or sells goods or services through the Internet. In recent years, the number of the use of them has been exploding around developed countries.

Such e-commerce can be useful for retailers who want to effectively advertise and sell goods at low cost, such as department stores or discount stores. It can also be used by manufacturers who want to sell their products directly to consumers or traders who want to advertise and export their products or products abroad.

Scientific instruments, ie, various experimental tools, laboratory diagnostic reagents, chemicals, measuring equipment, etc., are small quantities and various kinds of goods, and in some cases irregularly imported goods from foreign countries. In addition, buyers are students, faculty, and researchers from universities, research institutes, and companies, which are scattered around the country.

However, buyers in such an environment are unable to make mass purchases, so it is difficult to purchase goods at low prices, and they are requesting purchases from companies that can supply a wide variety of goods in a timely manner even at high cost. In addition, expensive laboratory and measurement equipment is purchased at a commodity price that includes the company's excessive operating costs.

On the other hand, currently used e-commerce methods are broadly classified into conventional cyber shopping mall methods, Internet mall-of-mals (commerce) by auction, and commercial transactions by reverse auction.

First, in order to build an internet cyber shopping mall by an individual or a company, a lot of production and operation costs are required, and there is a limit to public relations, and an internet cyber shopping mall (or internet mall-of-moles) has a fixed reconnaissance price (fixed) Price only), and price negotiation is not possible.

The Internet auction method does not allow the buyer to know the seller, but rather the seller attracts a large number of buyers who determine the final price as a group. You may also need to.

The above-mentioned cyber shopping mall method, internet mall-of-malls, and auction method of commerce are a seller-driven system in which a seller is a principal and a commerce is possible from a buyer's point of view. It is difficult to buy goods at one low price.

On the other hand, in the reverse auction method, when a buyer of a product requests a quotation from a cyber space, the stores and buyers who offer the most favorable terms of sale to the buyer are offered to the merchants who are registered as members of the cyber operator. That's how we do it. The difference between reverse auctions and auctions is that the bidder changes.

In the above Internet reverse auction method, when a buyer presents a desired price, condition and payment account number in a purchase intention and registers it, the purchase information is displayed on the member company's homepage. Register a bid. If a quote has been registered, the reverse auction agency notifies the buyer of the quote's registration by e-mail, and the buyer-buyer allows the buyer to select the best condition and price among multiple quotes registered in this way. driven).

Therefore, the buyer can be said that the commerce by the reverse auction method can theoretically purchase the goods at the lowest cost, but the general reverse auction method does not properly consider the buyer in the following special circumstances. There is.

That is, when the purchaser is a professor or university student of a university located in a province or a researcher of a research institute, most of the items to be purchased are small quantities and various kinds of consumables, medicines, laboratory equipment, and measuring equipment required for an experiment or research. In this case, if the price of the purchased item is not large, a supplier (seller) located in Seoul or a large city could not meet the satisfactory price and period, and had to buy the item at an expensive price.

Some sellers have opened a shopping mall homepage, but it was not easy to buy the necessary items inexpensively at the desired time, and all items needed by buyers in each field (ie, members) were easily solved on one site. It was hard to do.

In addition, in the conventional reverse auction type electronic commerce which presents a favorable condition to the buyer, the product quality and the manufacturing company are widely known, and only a single item can be traded at a time for expensive items, thereby providing a low price, a small quantity, and a large variety of products. Buying a reverse auction method takes a lot of time or items that cannot be purchased.

Moreover, the buyer group is relatively unfamiliar with commerce, frequent visits and phone calls from salespeople, often disrupts research and tends to be reluctant to reveal their identity.

Accordingly, the present invention has been made in view of the problems of the prior art, the purpose of which is that the purchaser of the scientific equipment traded in small quantities of multi-item multi-item simultaneous reverse auction e-commerce can be purchased quickly and simple and low cost buyers The present invention provides an anti-auction method for a scientific equipment electronic commerce system and a method thereof.

Another object of the present invention is to provide no information about the buyer other than the information about the purchased product before the successful bid for the protection of the buyer's information, by separating the qualification as a buyer and seller at the time of login (Login) Quotation request only Seller is to provide a reverse auction e-commerce system and method of the reverse auction system that the buyer member can not sell the goods of the school or research institute by restricting only the preparation of the quotation.

1 is a schematic block diagram of a scientific equipment electronic commerce system of the reverse auction method according to the present invention,

2 is a schematic structural diagram of a database of the data server shown in FIG. 1;

3 is an explanatory diagram for briefly explaining a method of scientific equipment electronic commerce of the reverse auction method according to the present invention between a member and a company;

4a and 4b is a flow chart showing in detail a scientific equipment electronic commerce method of the reverse auction method according to the present invention,

5 is an example of a main homepage screen provided when accessing a server of the system of the present invention;

6 is a screen example of a member's terms and conditions provided at the time of membership registration;

7 is a screen example showing a purchaser registration form;

8 is a screen example showing a business registration form of a seller,

9 is a login screen example,

10 is a screen example showing a request form of a member according to the present invention,

11 is a screen example showing a reverse auction list according to the present invention;

12 is a screen example showing a my file of a member who can confirm his request for quotation,

13 is a screen example showing an example of creating a quotation of a company,

14 is an example of a quote outputted according to the preparation of a quote;

15 is a screen example showing a my file of a company that can check the company's quotations and successful bids,

16 is a screen example showing a member's My file that can confirm the contents of the quotation received for the member's request for quotation.

* Explanation of Signs of Major Parts of Drawings *

One ; Buyer terminal 3a-3n; Seller terminal

5; System server 5a; Web server

5b; Database server 7; Internet network

9; Web browser 30; main screen

50; Terms and Conditions 60; Member registration screen

80; Business registration screen 101; Login screen

110; Reverse Auction List Screen 121; Quotation request screen

133; Create Quotation Screen 147; Estimate

150; Member's My File 160; My file of company

In order to achieve the above object, the present invention, when requesting a purchase quotation for a multi-item of purchased goods through a purchaser terminal as a single request for quotation, the system server generates a reverse auction list and a request for quotation file based on the above-mentioned request for quotation. Providing a step, a plurality of sellers each writes a quotation for at least one or more items of the plurality of items quoted from their seller terminal to the system server, and then the buyer checks his quotation request file Investigating the conditions of a number of bids that have been bidding and selecting a combination of days or a few quotes to notify the system server of the bid before the deadline, the system server in accordance with the successful bid notification to the successful bidder terminal and the contact information of the buyer The seller who has been successful in signing a delivery contract with the buyer It provides a reverse auction manner of materials science and electronic commerce method according to claim consisting of steps directed to the delivery of goods on board.

In addition, the present invention preferably further comprises the steps of performing a separate registration procedure for the purchaser and the seller when registering the member / company, and performing a login procedure using the ID and password set at the time of registration.

The purchaser is registered as a member and the seller is registered as a company as a company, and when registered as a buyer can only request a quote, if registered as a seller is characterized in that only bidding quote.

In the electronic commerce of the present invention, the buyer's information is not provided to the seller until the buyer notifies the successful bid to protect the buyer.

According to another aspect of the present invention, the present invention provides a plurality of sellers at the same time as at least one or more buyer terminal capable of internet access, a plurality of seller terminals capable of internet access, and the buyer at the same time request a quote of various types of goods over the Internet When each submits a quotation through its own terminal, the system equipment for controlling the reverse auction type scientific equipment electronic commerce system, characterized in that the system server to control the contract is made by notifying the seller of the winning result with the buyer's information to provide.

As described above, in the present invention, when a purchaser requests the purchase of small quantities of multi-item scientific materials at the same time in a single form, a number of sellers make the bids according to the reverse auction as a whole or part of the multi-items, thereby making the buyer quick and easy. In addition, it provides a commodity relay site that can be purchased at low cost and can be used for budgeting by obtaining information on the price of products without a bid, depending on the characteristics of universities or government-funded research institutes.

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

Attached Figure 1 is a schematic block diagram of a scientific equipment electronic commerce system of the reverse auction method according to the present invention, Figure 2 is a schematic configuration diagram of a database of the data server shown in FIG.

First, the reverse auction scientific equipment electronic commerce system is connected to the Internet network (7) one system server (5) for relaying / managing the overall reverse auction procedure for reverse auction scientific equipment electronic commerce, It consists of a number of buyer terminals (PC) 1 and seller terminals 3a-3n that allow a number of buyer members and sellers of goods suppliers to access the system server 5 via the Internet network 7.

The connection between the system server 1 and the plurality of buyer / seller terminals 1,3a-3n may be connected to the Internet through a modem and a PSTN, or a wired method using a dedicated line, ISDN, cellular, PCS, microwave or It can accept all wireless Internet access via satellite network. Each terminal 1,3a-3n can be anything as long as it can be connected to the Internet using any of the above methods.

Preferably, each terminal (1,3a-3n) is, for example, an Internet web browser that supports Internet access to a personal computer (PC) equipped with a Pentium class microprocessor, a hard disk driver, a communication modem, etc. 9) can be used with any type of PC or terminal.

In addition, the system server 5 is a reverse auction between a number of buyers and sellers when a plurality of buyer terminals 1 and a plurality of seller terminals 3a-3n access the system server 5 using a web browser 9. In order to process the e-commerce process of the scientific equipment of the method, a plurality of web servers 5a connected to each other within the system and the data inputted by buyers / sellers and managers are stored, and data extracted according to buyers / sellers' queries is managed. A system management terminal for monitoring a database server 5b and a plurality of web servers and DB servers in a system and acting as an interface between a system administrator and a system in order to monitor and recover from a failure of a system administrator. Not shown).

As the DB server 5b has a well-known structure, the database provided in the data storage device stores various kinds of information of the member who is the buyer and the matters related to the scholarship school / faculty designated by the member as shown in FIG. Member DB (11), Scholarship Designated School DB (12), which memorizes the details of the Scholarship Designated School that will provide the cyber money to be provided as scholarships from the site operator according to the purchase of the purchaser's goods Bulletin board DB (13), which stores various questions and answers such as requests, questions when making a quotation, and a designated school / department for the scholarship to pay the accumulated cyber money as a scholarship Reserve DB (14), University Information DB (15) that stores information by university, Department Information DB (16) that stores information by department, and detailed information of the seller The company DB (17), the member / company address DB (18) for managing the addresses of members and companies, the quotation request DB (19) that manages the member's request for quotation and linked to the member's My File, the member's By managing the request for quotation, it manages the quotation request DB (20) that the company can see in the reverse auction list, the quotation information of the company, and manages the quotation DB (21) and the quote information of the company which the company can see in the company my file. The member includes a quote DB 22 that can be viewed in the member My file.

Of course, the above-described database (DB) (11-22) may be further subdivided or configured as needed.

First, the reverse auction type scientific equipment electronic commerce according to the present invention will be briefly described with reference to FIG. 3, when a member who is a buyer requests a quotation for a purchased item from his terminal 1 to the system server 5 (S1). ), The seller of the goods, each of the sellers (3a-3n) to create their own quotations and uploaded to the system server (5) (S2).

In this case, the purchaser can request a quotation by including a number of items required by a university department or a laboratory / laboratory in a single request form, and the seller submits a quotation for all the items for which the quotation is requested or the item he is handling You can also optionally submit a quote.

The buyer then checks his My File to investigate the prices and conditions of the multiple quotes that have been bid, selects one quote or combination of quotes that is most favorable to him, including all items requested by him, and the deadline for receipt. The bid is notified to the system server 5 before and after (S3).

Accordingly, the system server 5 notifies the successful bidder to the successful bidder terminal by E-mail and also informs the buyer's contact information (S4). After that, the successful seller concludes a delivery contract with the buyer and delivers the goods within the delivery date (S5).

As described above, in the present invention, the purchaser can purchase all the desired items at the same time by requesting one quotation for a small quantity of various kinds of goods, and can protect the buyer without exposing the identity of the buyer until a successful bid is made. You can decide whether or not to purchase it without receiving it.

Hereinafter, the reverse auction type scientific equipment electronic commerce according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to FIGS. 4A and 4B.

In the present invention, in consideration of the identity of the buyer and the attributes of the goods to be traded, the purchaser can be registered as an individual qualification, and the seller can be registered as an enterprise in consideration of the reliability of the supply of the goods.

First, when a member and a company access the system server 5 to register as a member of the present invention site (S10), the main screen 30 of the system server 5 shown in FIG. 5 is the buyer / seller terminal 1 3a-3n).

The main screen 30 includes a home page return menu 31 for returning to the homepage, a reverse auction menu 32 for enabling electronic commerce through reverse auctions, products in stock at each company, special sales and exhibition products, and the like. The latest materials to help the exploration and education of outlet menus (33), various papers, food slips, and various experiment methods that connect dealers and representatives so that they can trade good products quickly and inexpensively by registering them by item. Information square menu (35), product information such as a library menu (34), exhibition introduction, science news (35a), life science news (35b), new product introduction (35c), certification information Bulletin board menu (36) where you can use the free bulletin board to store various questions and answers, such as questions and answers about purchase, questions and answers about experiments, inquiries and questions when making a quotation User guide menu (37) to guide the use of the user, login menu (38) to allow the member to login, member registration menu (39) to guide the membership, to guide the member to change the registration information A member information change menu (40), a Labi menu (41) for introducing this site (Labi), a site map menu (42) for displaying the overall structure of the site, and the like. have.

In this case, when the purchaser or seller selects the registration menu 39 (S11), the terms and conditions 50 as shown in FIG. 6 are provided, and the buyer or seller accepts the terms and conditions 50 to register. In this case, the purchaser member should select the member registration menu 51 and the seller company must select the business registration menu 52. If the user does not agree to the terms and conditions 50, the disagree menu 53 may be selected. have. Of course, when the disagree menu 53 is selected, that is, the non-member, the reverse auction menu 32 or the like cannot be used.

In the present invention, separately registered according to the member and the company to be registered so as not to be able to write a quote as described in detail later if the member, and if the company is not able to request a quote.

In other words, members are generally professors or graduate students at the university or researchers working at the company's research institutes to prevent the sale of goods arbitrarily. This is to prevent other competitors from finding out the bid price.

However, it is possible to use the outlet menu 33 in the case of selling and disposing of the unused goods of the school.

Therefore, when the professor of the university clicks the member registration menu 51 to register as a member (S13), the member ID 61, password 62 of the member in the member registration screen 60 of the buyer shown in FIG. , Confirm Password (63), Password Hint (64), Name (65), Social Security Number (66), E-mail (67), Company (School) Name (68), Zip Code (69), Address (70), Enter the telephone 71, fax number 72, recommender 73, scholarship granting school 74a / desiring department 74b, and click the member registration button 75 to complete the membership registration process. S14).

In FIG. 7, items without * mark are not required inputs and can be canceled by clicking the cancel button 76 if registration is not desired.

In addition, when the goods supplier seller clicks the company registration menu 52 to register as a company (S13), the buyer's ID (81), password (82) on the buyer's company registration screen (80) shown in FIG. , Confirm Password (83), Password Hint (84), Company Name (85), Representative (86), Business Registration Number (87), E-mail (88), Zip Code (89), Address (90), Telephone (91), FAX issue (92), recommender (93), company information (94), year of establishment (95), type of business / business (96), agency status (97), supply items (98), etc. Click on the company registration button 99, the member registration procedure is completed (S15).

In FIG. 8, items without * mark are not required inputs and can be canceled by clicking the cancel button 100 if the registration is not desired.

As shown in Fig. 7 and 8, the registration details of the members are simplified, and the registration details of the companies are requested in detail so that the buyers can refer to the company information when deciding the quotation and refer to the successful bidders.

In addition, the business registration number 87, the representative 86, the address 90, the telephone number 91 and the fax number 92 corresponding to the basic information of the seller registration information is to be automatically entered.

Thereafter, when the registered member / company clicks on the login menu 38, the login screen 101 shown in FIG. 9 is provided. Accordingly, if the registered user ID (61; 81) and password (Password) (62; 82) are entered and the login button 102 is clicked, the ID and password of the member and company entered according to the login procedure are stored in the respective database ( 11 and 17, it is determined whether or not coincides with the matter registered in (S16).

If the result of the determination is correct, the reverse auction list menu 103 which provides a list of reverse auctions registered by the member, the request for quotation menu 104 for the member to request a quotation of the purchased item, and the member's and company's request for quotation or It provides an additional My File menu 105 that allows you to check the bids.

In this case, when the login procedure is completed, the reverse auction list screen 110 may be presented first, and the next procedure of the member may be waited for.

If the member selects the quotation request menu 104, the quotation request screen 121 shown in FIG. 10 is provided. Accordingly, the member writes the title 122, the product name 123, the model and part number 124, the manufacturer 125 and the quantity 126 in the request for quotation.

In addition, special comments and products related to the purchase of goods by the buyer, such as "urgent purchase" or "no price", may be attached to the contents of the request for quotation (MEMO) 127. It can be used for the purpose of making accurate estimates by describing the information in more detail.

In this case, the buyer can set the deadline for receipt of the quotation 128 and the region 129 where the delivery should be made so that the seller can submit a more accurate quotation.

Thereafter, when the member clicks the confirmation button 130, the request for quotation is registered in the NO2 of the reverse auction list 110a of FIG. 11 and stored as a my file of the member shown in FIG. 12 (S18 and S19). Therefore, in the present invention, it is possible to request a number of items at the same time by one request.

The reverse auction list 110a includes information on a receipt date 111, a NO 112, a title 113, a deadline 114, a reference number 115, a delivery area 116, and a successful bidder 117.

Then, before the deadline, the company enters the keyword into the reverse auction list 110a in the title search 118 or the keyword input window 119, and clicks the search button 120 to perform a keyword search to find a desired item for quotation. Select.

Subsequently, selecting the number of inquiries 115 of the reverse auction list 110a in order to check the details of the selected items is provided with a request for quotation screen 121 shown in FIG. 10, and the company prepares a quotation.

When a company wants to prepare a quotation, selecting the title of the quotation request case 113 provides a quotation creation screen 133 illustrated in FIG. 13. After that, the seller (business) displays the product name, model number, and manufacture of the title (134), the member's name (135), the quotation date (136), the supply value (137), and the quotation list (139) on the quotation creation screen (133). Enter company, quantity, unit price and amount, total amount 140, expected delivery date 141, person in charge 142, memo 143, and attached file 144 with information about products such as catalogs. After that, if you click the check button 145, the quotation is completed and the basic information 146 of the company is automatically entered in the quotation (S20).

In this case, if you have any questions on the quotation, you can inquire questions by clicking the inquiry board (138), it is possible to explain the details of the quotation using the memo (143).

When the above-mentioned quotation is completed, the quotation 147 shown in FIG. 14 is automatically created, and the member and the member who requested the quotation can be confirmed and printed.

When the quotation is made as shown in FIG. 14, the contents of the quotation are stored in both the my file 150 of the member of FIG. 12 and the my file 160 of the company of FIG. 15 (S21). The member's my file 150 is quoted receipt date 111, NO 112, title 113, quotation deadline 114, quotation number 152, successful bidder 153, successful bid price (154) ), A my-file list 151 composed of columns for the inquiry board 155 and the clearing successful bid 156 column.

The "DEL" of the clear column 156 in the my file list 151 is provided only for a successful bid, and if a member clicks on it, the delete is performed in the my file list 151. However, after three months have passed since the deadline or auction is completed, the system will automatically delete it.

In addition, my file 150 tells how much the cyber money 157 provided from the site operator according to the purchase of the member is accumulated in which department of which university. The cyber money 157 is provided as a scholarship of the designated school designated department when a certain amount is accumulated.

Furthermore, clicking on the title of the My File list 151 provides a quote check list 158 shown in FIG. 16 to check the quote contents of the company. The quote check list 158 includes NO 112 and a company name. , Amount, company identification (159), winning bid (161) column. If you click on the Company Confirmation (159) column to view and confirm the quotations and company information of the requested companies, select the successful bidder and click, and the successful bid will be made from the server (5) of the system to the terminal (1) of the member. Successful bid notification is made by e-mail (S22).

Meanwhile, the my file 160 of the company of FIG. 15 is similar to FIG. 12, the receipt date of the quotation 111, the NO 112, the title 113, the deadline of the quotation 114, the number of quotations 152, and the successful bidder 153. ), A successful bid price 154, and a questionnaire bulletin board 155 include a myfile list 156.

Therefore, the company can be notified of the successful bid result by the E-mail from the system server 5, or can also know whether the successful bid by searching the company's own file (160) (S23, S24).

After that, the company (seller), who received the buyer's contact information from the system server 5 by e-mail, enters into a contract with the member who is the buyer and delivers the goods (S25).

In this case, if the contract cannot be concluded immediately due to the characteristics of the buyer, the company may be designated as a supplier, and the buyer may obtain the purchase price information and reflect it at the time of purchasing a regular product.

In the above description of the embodiment, the object to be traded was described as a scientific instrument, but any kind of article can be applied when a small quantity and multiple kinds of articles are purchased at the same time.

As described above, in the present invention, when a purchaser requests the purchase of small quantities of multi-item scientific materials at the same time in a single form, a number of sellers make the bids according to the reverse auction as a whole or part of the multi-items, thereby making the buyer quick and easy. It provides a reverse auction commerce site that can be purchased at low cost and can be used for budgeting by obtaining information on product prices without a bid, depending on the characteristics of universities or government-funded research institutes.

In the above, the present invention has been illustrated and described with reference to specific preferred embodiments, but the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments and is not limited to the spirit of the present invention. Various changes and modifications can be made by those who have

Claims (6)

When requesting a quotation for purchase of various kinds of goods through a purchaser terminal as a single request for quotation, the system server provides a reverse auction list and a request for quotation file based on the above quotation request; Each of the plurality of sellers prepares a quotation for at least one or more of the plurality of items that are quoted from their seller terminal and uploads the quotation to the system server; After that, the buyer checks his quotation request file, examines the conditions of the multiple quotations, and selects a day or several quotation combinations to notify the system server of the successful bid before the deadline of receipt. In response to the successful bid notification, the system server comprises a step of notifying the successful bidder's office and the buyer's contact information to the successful bidder's terminal, thereby instructing the successful seller to deliver the goods within the delivery date by signing a delivery contract with the buyer. E-commerce methods of scientific equipment. The method of claim 1, wherein the purchaser and the seller perform separate registration procedures at the time of registering a member / company; And performing a login procedure using the ID and password set at the time of registration. The method of claim 1, wherein the purchaser is registered as an individual, the seller is registered as a company, and when the purchaser is registered as a buyer, only a request for quotation is available. Scientific equipment e-commerce method of the reverse auction method, characterized in that possible. The method of claim 1, wherein the information of the buyer is not provided to the seller until the buyer notifies the successful bid. At least one purchaser terminal with internet access, A number of merchant terminals with internet access, As the purchaser requests quotation of various kinds of goods through the internet at the same time, when a plurality of sellers submit a quotation through their own terminals, the buyer is notified of the result of the purchase with the buyer's information to control the contract. A reverse-auction scientific equipment electronic commerce system, characterized in that consisting of a system server. [6] The system of claim 5, wherein the multi-class article is a scientific instrument.