KR20060028019A - A rental delivering system and a method thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention relates to a rental courier system and a method thereof, wherein when a customer orders a rental of a product online, the number of locations closest to the desired delivery place of the rental applicant is obtained by using information on the number of identical items that are already rented. By identifying the target product in the rental courier system, the courier or logistics company closest to the collected product is retrieved and delivered to the rental applicant without having to store it in a shopping mall logistics center or a courier warehouse, so that the customer does not have to wait for a long time. The present invention relates to a rental courier system and a method that can significantly reduce the time required for delivery, resulting in improved turnover and reduction of logistics costs.

According to the present invention, an efficient system and method are provided for a popular rental product, which is immediately delivered to a new orderer at a place such as a house, a convenience store, or a store in a subway station of an ordered customer instead of an operator distribution center. As a result, the logistics cost is greatly reduced by efficiently recovering and re-delivering rental products in the infrastructure of the existing parcel delivery system.

Rental, Courier, Logistics, Shopping Mall

Description

Rental courier system and its method {A RENTAL DELIVERING SYSTEM AND A METHOD THEREOF}

1 is a block diagram for showing a preferred rental parcel delivery system according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a data processing process of a rental parcel delivery service according to the present invention using FIG. 1.

Figure 3 is a block diagram showing a preferred configuration of the rental parcel delivery server according to the present invention.

Figure 4 is a flow chart for showing a rental parcel delivery method according to the present invention.

* Description of the symbols for the main parts of the drawings *

10,11,12,13: applicant terminal 20: shopping mall server

30: rental courier server 31: rental status management module

32: Inventory Management Module 33: Recovery Schedule Management Module

34: optimal delivery product search module 35: delivery order delivery module

36: shopping mall module 40: database

50,51,52,53: Delivery Logistics Center Server 60,70: Delivery Dealer

The present invention relates to a rental courier system and a method thereof, wherein when a customer orders a rental of a product online, the number of locations closest to the desired delivery place of the rental applicant is obtained by using information on the number of identical items that are already rented. By identifying the target product in the rental courier system, the courier or logistics company closest to the collected product is retrieved and delivered to the rental applicant immediately without storing it in a shopping mall logistics center or a courier warehouse, so that the customer does not have to wait for a long time. The present invention relates to a rental courier system and a method that can significantly reduce the time required for delivery, resulting in improved turnover and reduction of logistics costs.

Recently, rental (rental) business, which rents goods such as DVDs, CDs, video tapes, specialized books, baby products, electronic products, etc. at a certain usage rate, has been widely used.

The most commonly used method of the rental business is an e-commerce method using an internet medium. When a customer connects to a shopping mall site, selects a product to rent and makes a rental request, the shopping mall site applies for a rental. The payment is made for the goods based on the user's payment information, and then the goods are delivered to various places such as a home, a company, a convenience store, and a subway store through a courier service, so that the goods are delivered to the user.

The user who received the loaned product and finished using it for a desired period of time, accesses the shopping mall site again and requests the collection, and the shopping mall site instructs the courier to collect the authorized collection request information and the product is returned to the logistics center of the company It takes about 3 ~ 4 days for the delivery to the warehouse, and it usually takes about 5 ~ 4 days for the delivery. It takes a while.

In other words, the summary of the current rental method is that all loaned goods must be received into the distribution center and then sent back to the applicant for rental. It has a waste of cost and has a long lead time from the first application for the rental applicant to the final delivery time, which lowers the turnover rate for a single product, which in turn lowers the overall profit rate. Products with high turnover, but there are many cases in which there is no stock in the distribution center was inconvenient not to want to rent in time.

The present invention has been made to solve the problems as described above, the object of the present invention is to know when the goods are collected from the customer who ordered when the rental applicant ordered a rental for the goods to newly receive the goods in the distribution center A rental courier system that can reduce the time it takes to supply goods and reduce the cost of logistics by delivering the goods delivered from a pre-ordered customer, rather than shipping, to a new applicant. In providing a method.

It is another object of the present invention to provide a rental courier system and a method for enabling rental by checking when rental is possible using information on a product to be recovered even if the product requested by the rental applicant is out of stock in the distribution center. .

Another object of the present invention is to implement a single system by linking the shopping mall system and the courier system so that order management for products can be processed all online, while using a variety of delivery routes while using the existing infrastructure of the courier company as it is The present invention provides a rental courier system and a method of delivering the same.

In addition, another object of the present invention is to provide a rental courier system and method for quickly grasping information on which products have many applications for loans, so that additional purchase of goods or disposal of stock products can be more rationalized. In providing.

Still other objects according to the present invention will be described in more detail in the configuration and operation described below.

The rental parcel delivery system according to the present invention for solving the technical problem as described above,

A plurality of rental applicant terminals for performing a rental application process of a rental applicant for a predetermined rental product through an Internet network;

A shopping mall server configured to receive rental application information including a rental period for a predetermined rental product and information about a place to be delivered from the rental applicant terminal through the Internet network and store the same in a database;

The storage, delivery and recovery of goods in the distribution center for the rental goods are processed by a plurality of parcel delivery offices connected to the underlying network, and the logistics information about the goods stored, delivered and returned is stored in the internal database. A plurality of parcel delivery center servers transmitting to the network;

Share the rental application information with a database of a shopping mall server storing the rental application information, receive logistics information sent from the plurality of parcel delivery center servers, and rent from the shared rental application information and received logistics information. Search for information on the recovery schedule of the same kind of the applied rental product and determine the optimal delivery product, and transmit the information on the scheduled recovery, the place to be recovered and the place to be redeemed to the parcel delivery center server. It is characterized in that it comprises a; a rental courier server to be re-issued from the rental applicant immediately without receiving into the center, and to store the re-delivery information sent to the courier distribution center server in the shared database.

Preferably, the rental courier server,

Rental status management module for managing the existing rental status information for the rental goods by the received logistics information; Inventory status management for managing the inventory status information in the warehouse for the rental goods by the received logistics information And a collection schedule management module for managing collection schedule information for the rental product, which has already been loaned; and collection schedule management information for the rental products of the same kind that are scheduled to be collected for the rental product for which the rental is applied. An optimal delivery goods search module for classifying the licensed first order from the module, and determining a recovery scheduled rental product in a position closest to the place where the rental applicant is to be delivered as an optimal delivery product; And a courier command delivery module for transmitting the corresponding product, the place to be collected and the place to be redistributed to the courier distribution center server for the optimal delivery product determined by the optimum delivery product search module.

The rental parcel delivery server performs a rental process of receiving rental application information including information on a rental period and a place for delivery of a predetermined rental product from the rental applicant terminal through the Internet network and storing the rental request information in a database. The shopping mall module may be configured to process a rental process for a rental product directly with the rental applicant terminal by the shopping mall module.

In addition, the rental courier server further adds an optimal delivery schedule search module for searching for an optimal delivery schedule when there is no similar rental product that can be immediately retrieved from rental products that are already rented as a result of the search for the optimal delivery product search module. In addition, the optimal delivery schedule search module is updated from time to time changes in the inventory status information and recovery schedule information of the inventory management module and the collection schedule management module to determine the optimal delivery schedule to send to the courier delivery command module, Re-delivery information sent to the parcel delivery center server may be configured to store in the shared database.

And, the rental courier method according to the invention,

An input step of displaying information on rental goods to a rental applicant connected through a communication network and receiving rental application information on rental goods; and,

A selection step of selecting rental period and place information to be delivered for the rental product requested by the rental applicant; and

A database retrieval step of retrieving priority information on inventory items stored in a distribution center for the collected information on the applied rental products and the same type of rental products; and,

A determination step of determining a recovery target product that can be delivered to the place to be received at the shortest time as an optimal delivery product according to the retrieved recovery information; And

A delivery order transmission step of transmitting information on a delivery destination for delivering the goods to be recovered, a place to be recovered, and the collected goods to the courier / logistics center to collect the previously-loaned goods determined as the optimal delivery goods; It may be made, including.

On the other hand, if the recovery schedule information for the rental product that can be immediately recovered among the same rental products of the same kind in the database search step of the step of the rental parcel delivery method is not retrieved,

An optimal delivery schedule product searching step of searching for an optimal delivery schedule product that can be delivered first from the inventory status information and the collection schedule information; and

The inventory status information and the collection schedule information are updated from time to time, when there is no rental product that can be delivered before the searched optimal delivery product, the optimal delivery product is determined as the optimal delivery product, and the optimal delivery product is determined to be stored in a database. And a storing step; and may be configured to interrupt the delivery command transmission step.

Hereinafter, exemplary embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, and in the following description of the present invention, specific descriptions of related well-known functions or configurations may unnecessarily obscure the subject matter of the present invention. If so, the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The following terms are terms set in consideration of functions in the present invention, which may vary depending on the intention or custom of the producer, and their definitions should be made based on the contents throughout the specification.

First, FIG. 1 is a block diagram illustrating a preferred rental parcel delivery system 100 according to the present invention, and FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating a data processing process in which a rental parcel delivery service is performed according to the present invention using FIG. 1. It is also.

According to FIG. 1, applicants for renting rentals for renting DVDs, videos, CDs, specialized books, baby products, etc., are connected to the Internet by the Internet or wired / wireless communication networks (10), (11), ( 12), (13) is configured so that the loan application process can be performed, these applicant terminals are computer terminals 10 installed in a home, a computer terminal 11 connected to a LAN environment in the company, or in a convenience store It may be a computer terminal 12 installed or a computer terminal 13 installed in a store inside a subway station.

These applicant terminals are not necessarily terminals that only process new rental applications by new rental applicants, but they are waiting to be collected by returning the existing rental products from customers, or they hold the rental products during the rental period. It may be present.

The shopping mall server 20 receives rental application information including information on rental periods and locations for delivery of predetermined rental goods from the applicant terminals 10, 11, 12, and 13 through the Internet network. The rental process that can be input is configured to be performed, and various information according to the rental application is configured to be stored in the database 40.

The database 40 stores rental application information input through the shopping mall server 20, various member information of the applicants, and rental information, and the rental courier server 30 and information as shown in FIG. It is configured to share.

A plurality of parcel delivery center server 50, 51, 52, 53, 54 are each connected to the rental parcel delivery server 30 to form a single parcel delivery network, as shown in FIG. It is directly connected to the Internet network and indirectly connected to the rental parcel delivery server 30 or the shopping mall server 20 through the Internet network, and the parcel delivery server 30 receives the parcel delivery order information for the rental goods, It is configured to store the logistics information stored, shipped and returned for various rental goods in an internal database (not shown) and to transmit it to the rental courier server 30, which is an upper network.

The parcel delivery center servers 50, 51, 52, 53, and 54 are connected to a plurality of parcel delivery offices (not shown) in their respective sub-networks. It can mean a moving vehicle with a means, a business that receives orders from the office via telephone, fax, or the Internet and orders the carriers to carry out the delivery directly. It refers to the places where final and actual delivery and logistics processing such as storage, delivery, and return are performed, and thus, the parcel delivery center includes all the concepts of a conventional parcel delivery company or a logistics company.

The rental courier server 30 is configured to share the rental application information with the database 40 storing the rental application information received through the shopping mall server 20 as described above, and a plurality of courier logistics center servers 50, ( 51, 52, 4530, and 54 are configured to receive the logistics information transmitted from.

In addition, the rental courier server 30 is to recover the same kind of goods for the predetermined rental goods requested by the rental applicant from the rental application information shared through the database 40 and the logistics information received from the courier distribution center server. It is configured to retrieve information, specifically, it has a block configuration consisting of a central control unit 37 as shown in FIG. 3 and various management modules controlled by it.

 That is, the rental courier server 30 analyzes the logistics information received from the courier distribution center servers 50, 51, 52, 53, and 54 to manage rental status, inventory status, and collection schedule. Rental status management module 31, the inventory status management module 32 and the collection schedule management module 33, and the optimal delivery product search module 34 and courier command delivery module that performs the most essential functions of the present invention ( 35).

More specifically, the rental status management module 31 manages the existing rental status information on the rental product by the received logistics information, and the inventory status management module 32 performs the logistics on the rental product by the received logistics information. The inventory status information in the warehouse is managed, and the collection schedule management module 33 manages the collection schedule information for the rented rental goods.

The optimal delivery product search module 34 first classifies the recovery schedule information for the rental products of the same kind that are to be recovered from the collection schedule management module 33 with respect to the rental products to be rented through the shopping mall server 20. Among them, the rental applicant performs a function of determining the optimal delivery product for the scheduled rental merchandise in the position closest to the place to be delivered.

For example, the determination of the optimal delivery product will be described with reference to the block diagram of FIG. 2, and should be recovered by the courier service providers 60 and 70 at the store inside the subway station of FIG. 13 and the home of FIG. 10. There is a rental product of the same kind, for example, a video tape, and a rental product of the same kind is also stored in a distribution warehouse on the parcel delivery center server 50 side. When received at the applicant's terminal, the most optimal delivery product is determined by the video tape of the subway station premises of reference number 13 located closest to the applicant's terminal 10 at the convenience store.

In addition, the courier command delivery module 35 is a courier logistics center corresponding to the courier distribution center server 50 for the corresponding goods, the place to be recovered and the place to be redistributed for the optimal delivery goods determined by the optimum delivery product search module 34. It is configured to perform the function of transmitting to the server (51), (52), (53), (54), and further described again using the above example, the courier sales office side belonging to the courier distribution center server A courier service command instructing the courier service providers 60 and 70 to collect the goods and delivery location information to be re-issued again, that is, a video tape of the subway station premises of FIG. 13 and to deliver it to the convenience store of FIG. The data is organized and sent in a series of data formats.

The process of the parcel delivery to the rental goods by the rental parcel delivery system 100 having the configuration of FIGS. 1 and 3 described above will be described again using the block diagram of FIG. 2 and the flowchart of FIG. 4.

First, the rental applicants wishing to rent each access to the shopping mall server 20 through the applicant terminal of the place of their choice. The applicant terminal at this time is the house (10), the company (11), the convenience store (12). Or a terminal installed in a place of a subway station premises 13 or the like, the shopping mall server 20 shows the rental applicants the information about the rental goods and receives the rental application information for the rental goods (step S1). .

When the predetermined rental product is selected in step S1, the shopping mall server 20 receives the rental period and the place information to be delivered for the rental product requested by the rental applicant (step S2).

The rental application information regarding the rental of the rental product input and selected through the steps S1 and S2 is stored in the database 40 and then shared with the applied rental product by the rental courier server 30 sharing the database. The collection information for the previously rented goods is searched in preference to the stock goods information stored in the distribution center (step S3).

Subsequently, according to the collection information retrieved in step S3, the rental applicant can determine a recovery target product that can be delivered to the place to be delivered in the shortest time and the shortest distance as the optimum delivery product (step S4).

If it is determined in step S4 that the optimum delivery goods, product information about the determined recovery target goods, that is, product name, information about the place to collect, delivery destination for re-delivery to the courier distribution center server 50 to collect, The parcel delivery center 60, which is located closest to the object to be recovered, is sent to the parcel delivery center server 51 to which the parcel delivery company 60 belongs to transmit the parcel delivery command via wired / wireless communication means or offline (step S5).

The courier salesman 60 who finally received the courier order for the optimal delivery product collects the videotape from the store 13 of the subway station and returns to the courier distribution center according to the conventional method. The video tape is delivered, and the specific delivery process is an offline procedure by a person. Therefore, the video tape is not described in the order of the rental parcel delivery method by the rental system 100 according to the present invention. It is understood that the actual delivery process is occupied, and this actual delivery can be made by a courier order finally made by the steps of steps S3, S4, and S5.

On the other hand, if the recovery schedule information for the rental goods that can be immediately recovered among the same rental products of the same type is not retrieved in step S3, the optimal delivery that can be delivered first from the inventory status information and the recovery schedule information in step S6. The scheduled product is retrieved (step S6).

 In this case, the optimal goods to be delivered means the preliminary goods that are determined before the decision is made as the best goods if the stock status exists among the inventory status and the return information in the parcel delivery center. It means a decision preliminary product for determining the rental product having the most optimal delivery condition among the optimal delivery product.

In step S6, when the inventory status information and the collection schedule information are updated from time to time, and there is no rental product that can be delivered before the searched optimal delivery product, the optimal delivery product is determined as the optimal delivery product and stored in a database. After performing the determining and storing step (step S7), it is configured to interrupt the parcel delivery command sending step of step S5 above.

As described above, in step S3 and step S4, even if the rental goods and the same kind of goods to be rented are stored in the warehouse, the courier service providers 60 and 70 first retrieve the recovery information of the existing rental goods to be recovered. It is the process of finding the object to be recovered that can be re-released in a new rental by selecting it in the shortest distance or the shortest time, and determining the optimal shipping product. Through this process, the lead time of product rotation is shortened, In the center or parcel delivery company, the cost of moving is greatly reduced due to the drastic reduction in the amount of copper required for movement.

In addition, if the lead time of product rotation is shortened, the side effect is that the number of inventory items to be stored in the warehouse can be reduced as a counter-payment, and the rental applicant can receive the desired rental product more quickly. It is a system that can satisfy both consumers and providers.

Meanwhile, as another embodiment of the rental system 100 according to the present invention, the shopping mall module shown in FIG. 3 of FIG. 3 is configured in the rental courier server 30 and the rental applicant terminals 10 and 11 through the Internet network. Rental process of receiving rental application information including information on rental period and place of delivery for a predetermined rental product directly from rental courier server 30 from (12) and (13) side and storing it in database 40 May be configured to be performed, and such a configuration may be referred to as an embodiment to simplify the configuration of the system by merging the shopping mall server 20 to the rental courier server 30.

In addition, in order to perform steps S6 and S7 of FIG. 4, the inventory status information and the collection schedule information of the inventory status management module 32 and the collection schedule management module 33 are frequently updated to determine an optimal delivery schedule product. An embodiment in which an optimal delivery schedule product search module (not shown) for transmitting to the parcel delivery command delivery module 35 is further configured in the rental parcel delivery server 30 is also possible.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described in detail as described above, those skilled in the art will be able to modify or change the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the present invention. It will be appreciated that the true technical protection scope of the present invention should be determined by the claims.

According to the present invention, an efficient rental system and method are provided for a popular rental product, which is immediately delivered to a new orderer at a place such as a home, a convenience store, or a store in a subway station, not an operator distribution center. As a result, the logistics operation cost is greatly reduced by efficiently recovering and re-delivering the rental goods in the infrastructure resource area of the existing parcel delivery logistics system.

In addition, the rental time of the rental product is significantly reduced in lead time required for the recovery of the product, and as the turnover rate of the product increases, it is possible to generate more profits with the same resource. The promotion has the advantage of being able to rent at a low price.

In addition, if the rental time is kept exactly after renting and retrieving a fixed period, and the rental fee is applied at a lower cost, the turnover rate of the product may be higher, thereby enabling a large number of rentals in a short time.

In addition, customers can be provided with a wide range of methods and information on how to rent products that are frequently rented. When there is no desired product in the operator's logistics center, when the customer can not rent them immediately, It is possible to actively respond to the rental needs, and companies that rent rental products can obtain analysis information on the products that are frequently rented. This has the effect of becoming possible.

Claims (6)

A plurality of rental applicant terminals for performing a rental application process of a rental applicant for a predetermined rental product through an Internet network; A shopping mall server configured to receive rental application information including a rental period for a predetermined rental product and information about a place to be delivered from the rental applicant terminal through the Internet network and store the same in a database; The storage, delivery and recovery of goods in the distribution center for the rental goods are processed by a plurality of parcel delivery offices connected to the underlying network, and the logistics information about the goods stored, delivered and returned is stored in the internal database. A plurality of parcel delivery center servers transmitting to the network; Share the rental application information with a database of a shopping mall server storing the rental application information, receive logistics information sent from the plurality of parcel delivery center servers, and rent from the shared rental application information and received logistics information. Search for information on the recovery schedule of the same kind of the applied rental product and determine the optimal delivery product, and transmit the information on the scheduled recovery, the place to be recovered and the place to be redeemed to the parcel delivery center server. And a rental courier server configured to immediately re-issue from the rental applicant without being received at the center, and to store re-delivery information transmitted to the courier distribution center server in the shared database. The method of claim 1, The rental courier server, A rental status management module for managing existing rental status information on the rental product by the received logistics information; An inventory status management module configured to manage inventory status information in the logistics warehouse for the rental goods based on the received logistics information; A collection schedule management module for managing collection schedule information on the rental product; The rental schedule information for the rental goods of the same kind that are scheduled to be collected for the rental-requested rental product is first classified by the collection schedule management module, and the collection schedule is located closest to the place where the rental applicant is to be delivered. An optimal delivery product search module for determining a rental product as an optimal delivery product; And And a courier command delivery module configured to transmit a corresponding product, a place to be collected, and a place to be redistributed to the courier distribution center server for the optimal delivery product determined by the optimum delivery product search module. The method of claim 1, The rental courier server, And a shopping mall module configured to receive rental application information including a rental period for a predetermined rental product and information about a place to be delivered from the rental applicant terminal through the Internet network, and to store the rental application information in a database. And a rental courier system for processing the rental process for the rental product directly with the rental applicant terminal by the shopping mall module. The method of claim 1, The rental courier server,  Further, the search results of the optimal delivery product search module further comprises an optimal delivery schedule product search module for searching for the best delivery scheduled products when there is no rental product of the same kind that can be recovered immediately among the rental products in advance, The optimal delivery schedule search module receives the changes in inventory status information and collection schedule information of the inventory management module and the collection schedule management module from time to time to determine the optimal delivery schedule and transmits the order to the courier delivery module. A rental parcel delivery system characterized by storing the re-delivery information sent to the distribution center server in the shared database. An input step of displaying information on a rental product to a rental applicant connected through a communication network and receiving rental application information on the rental product; A selection step of selecting a rental period and place information to be delivered for the rental product requested by the rental applicant; A database retrieval step of retrieving the collected information on the applied rental product and the same rental product of the same type prior to the inventory product information stored in the distribution center; A determination step of determining a recovery target product that can be delivered to the place to be received at the shortest time as an optimal delivery product according to the retrieved recovery information; And A delivery order transmission step of transmitting information on a delivery destination for delivering the goods to be recovered, a place to be recovered, and the collected goods to the courier / logistics center to collect the previously-loaned goods determined as the optimal delivery goods; Rental courier method comprising a. The method of claim 5, If the recovery schedule information for the rental product that can be immediately recovered among the same types of existing rental products is not retrieved in the database search step, An optimal delivery schedule product searching step of searching for an optimal delivery schedule product that can be delivered first from the inventory status information and the collection schedule information; and The inventory status information and collection schedule information are updated from time to time, when there is no rental product that can be delivered earlier than the searched optimal delivery product, the optimal delivery product is determined as the optimal delivery product, and the optimal delivery product is determined to be stored in a database. And a step of storing; interrupting the delivery command transmission step after performing the storage step.

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