TWI441090B - A store to home delivery method and system - Google Patents

Description

Store-to-home delivery method and system

The present invention relates to a delivery method and system, and more particularly to a method for selecting a delivery route when a virtual channel is selected for purchase, and then the physical route distribution system selects a corresponding shipment route provider according to the type of the product purchased by the consumer, and then judges the consumer. A physical route base corresponding to a short distance corresponding to the product location, and the goods are delivered to the physical route base, and then the goods are transported from the physical route base to the delivery method and system for receiving the goods.

At present, when consumers use a virtual channel shopping platform such as a shopping website or a TV shopping system to shop, if the virtual channel shopping platform wants to send goods to consumers, it can use the delivery service of the general home delivery company or It is the parcel service of the postal system. After the consumer purchases the merchandise from the virtual channel shopping platform and chooses to receive the merchandise location, if the postal system uses the parcel service, the shipping channel operator must first transport the merchandise from the warehouse where the merchandise is stored to the post office. The post office will deliver the goods to the post office located in the area where the goods are received, and then deliver the goods to the place where the goods are received. The general home delivery company's delivery service transports the goods from the warehouse where the goods are stored to the place where the goods are received. The business office in the area will then deliver the goods to the place where the goods are received.

Only the above two delivery methods need to first transport the goods directly or indirectly from the warehouse where the goods are stored to the post office or the home delivery company office located in the area where the goods are received, and then deliver the goods to the selected goods place selected by the consumer. The goods must be delivered to the consumer's selected receiving product address (that is, the place where the goods are finally received) after two or more shipments; the goods are delivered from the post office or home delivery company in the area where the goods are received, to the beginning of delivery. Between the receiving goods locations, it is also necessary to spend a period of time sorting and processing the goods according to the address of the receiving goods place; and there are not many post offices or home delivery companies, so it takes a certain time to transport from the post office or the home office of the home office. By receiving the merchandise location, the sum of the several shipments and processing times will make it impossible for the merchandise to be quickly delivered to the location of the receiving merchandise selected by the consumer (ie, the location where the merchandise is ultimately received). From the above, we can see that there are still many problems in the existing technology, and we still need to further review and seek feasible solutions.

Accordingly, it is a primary object of the present invention to provide a store-to-home delivery method that provides a fast and convenient shopping delivery service for consumers.

The main technology adopted to achieve the foregoing objectives is that the aforementioned method includes at least the following steps: providing a virtual access shopping platform for consumers to store relevant information (eg, item, type, quantity, specification, function, quality, price, or market) Market, discount terms, payment methods, purchase objects or other purchase conditions, etc.), and choose to receive the goods location and delivery time; the virtual channel shopping platform transmits the shopping materials to different virtual machines according to the different products purchased by the consumers. a channel information system; each virtual channel information system transmits the data to a physical channel distribution system; and the entity channel distribution system selects at least one shipping channel operator corresponding to the purchased product according to the shopping related information of the consumer purchasing the commodity; the entity The path distribution system calculates the physical path base of the optimal (short) distance corresponding to the location where the consumer receives the commodity (for example, scheduling scheduling with the shortest distance or shortest route of the electronic map, setting of the shipment quantity, and avoiding the shortest time route schedule of the peak period) Planning, bad weather, avoiding roads Scheduling, etc., and then selecting a preferred physical access point corresponding to the location where the consumer receives the merchandise; the physical routing system transmits the data to the selected physical access point; and the purchased merchandise is delivered from the selected physical access point to Receive product locations.

By using the foregoing method, the physical path distribution system selects at least one shipping channel operator corresponding to the purchased product according to the type of the product purchased by the consumer, and calculates the closest location to the consumer receiving the commodity and cooperates with the aforementioned shipping channel manufacturer. The physical access point to select a preferred physical access point corresponding to the location where the consumer receives the commodity, and the delivery of the commodity can be completed only by a physical delivery route to a delivery of the receiving commodity location, without having to be a commodity like the prior art After two or more stages of delivery, it can be sent to the receiving place, which can shorten the time when the goods are delivered to the place where the goods are received, and also save the energy consumed during the delivery to reduce the cost of goods distribution; and the physical access point can be a convenience store. Nowadays, the popularity of convenience stores in China is often in the vicinity of homes, work places or school places where consumers are easy to set up to receive goods, and the above-mentioned physical channel distribution system calculates and selects the closest consumer to receive goods. The physical route of the location, so the order will be Stronghold direct distribution channel to the receiving merchandise location than the existing technology will ship to home delivery from the post office or the company's business base location to receive goods come short, so that goods can be distributed to virtual paths to receive merchandise location in a short time.

A second object of the present invention is to provide a store-to-home distribution system including: more than one virtual access platform, providing shopping-related information (eg, item, type, quantity, specification, function, quality, price, or market quotation) , discount conditions, payment methods, purchase objects or other purchase conditions, etc.) as a basis for consumers to purchase goods, and alternative delivery time; more than one virtual channel information system, connected with the aforementioned virtual channel platform, through The connection receives the consumer shopping data; the physical channel distribution system is connected with the virtual channel information system to receive the shopping data, and may select one or more purchases according to the shopping related information of the consumer purchasing the product in the shopping data. The merchandise channel corresponding to the merchandise, and calculating the physical path location corresponding to the consumer's optimal (short) distance to receive the merchandise location, to select a preferred physical transit location corresponding to the consumer's receiving merchandise location, and then transmitting the shopping data to the selected outlet The physical access point.

First, referring to FIG. 1 , a schematic diagram of a system architecture according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention is mainly connected to more than one virtual path information system 20 by more than one virtual path shopping platform 10, and the virtual path information system 20 and A physical path distribution system 30 is coupled, and the physical path distribution system 30 is in turn coupled to more than one physical access point 40.

The virtual access shopping platform 10 is an interface for contacting the customer. The virtual access shopping platform 10 can be a shopping website or a television shopping platform, and the consumer can purchase goods on the virtual access shopping platform 10 according to the shopping related information (for example: Item, type, quantity, specification, function, quality, price or market conditions, discount conditions, purchase target or other purchase conditions, etc.) for consumers to purchase goods, and determine the delivery time and payment method, in this embodiment You can choose between online payment or cash on delivery. If the consumer chooses online payment, they can pay by credit card or online ATM.

The virtual channel information system 20 is configured to receive shopping materials of the consumer. The virtual channel shopping platform 10 determines, by the items purchased by the consumer, which virtual channel information system 20 is required to transmit the shopping materials. For example, the goods purchased by the consumer are The goods of the channel A are transmitted to the virtual channel information system A 20 to which the channel A belongs, and are shipped by the channel A. If the goods purchased by the consumer are the goods of the channel B, the shopping data is transmitted to the channel B. Virtual Path Information System B 20, shipped by Path B.

After receiving the consumer shopping data from the virtual channel information system 20, the physical channel delivery system 30 selects one or more shipping channel operators corresponding to the purchased product according to the type of the product purchased by the consumer, and then calculates the optimal location for receiving the product from the consumer. (near) distance physical path base 40, a feasible way to calculate the optimal distance is to use the shortest distance or shortest path of the electronic map to perform scheduling planning, shipment quantity setting, avoiding the peak time, the shortest time route scheduling, and the bad Avoiding route scheduling and so on. The physical access point 40 is associated with the aforementioned shipping path provider to select a preferred physical access point 40 corresponding to the consumer's location of the goods, and then transfer the consumer shopping data to the preferred physical access point 40; After receiving the consumer shopping data, the entity routing base 40 then distributes the merchandise from the physical access location 40 to the consumer receiving the merchandise location according to the data. If the consumer selects the cash on delivery in the virtual shopping platform 10, the consumer consumes In the preferred embodiment, the physical access point 40 can be a convenience store; in other preferred embodiments, the physical access point 40 can also be a different store outside the convenience store. (eg, electrical appliance, repair station, drug store, department store counter or other retail stores, etc.), or the business office of the home delivery company; for example, the consumer purchases a bottle of beverage, which is the shipping channel C is responsible for shipping, and the convenience store is a physical access point 40 corresponding to the shipping path provider C, and the physical path distribution system 30 calculates the distance. The consumer receives a convenient store closest to the location of the merchandise to select a preferred convenience store corresponding to the location at which the consumer receives the merchandise, and then transmits the consumer shopping profile to the preferred convenience store; the preferred convenience store receives the consumer After the shopping materials are used, the merchandise is distributed from the preferred convenience store to the receiving merchandise location and delivered to the consumer; if the consumer purchases the merchandise is a television set, the television is the shipping channel operator Ding responsible for shipping, and The appliance line is a physical access point 40 corresponding to the shipping path provider D. The physical path distribution system 30 calculates an electrical line that is closest to the location at which the consumer receives the item to select a preferred location corresponding to the location at which the consumer receives the item. The appliance line then transfers the consumer shopping data to the preferred preferred appliance line; after receiving the consumer shopping profile, the preferred appliance line then distributes the item from the preferred appliance line to the consumer receiving item location.

In this embodiment, a bill clearing system (not shown) is further provided. After the consumer pays, the system will follow the shipping path and payment method of the consumer shopping list, and the virtual channel shopping platform and the virtual channel. Information systems, physical channel distribution systems, and shipping channel operators, physical access locations for accounting clearing or settlement, such as data clearing, accounting processing, accounting query, and day-end processing.

Referring to FIG. 2, it can be seen from the above that the system architecture of the present invention and its basic process of object distribution are further summarized. The shop-to-home distribution method of the present invention includes the following steps: providing a virtual access shopping platform For the consumer to purchase the product and select to receive the product location and delivery time 201; in this embodiment, if the location of the receiving commodity location is in the area where the physical access location is dense, the consumer can specify the commodity at a certain time during the shopping. Delivery to the receiving goods location (such as: four hours, six hours, eight hours after the order, or a specific delivery time interval); the virtual channel shopping platform transmits the shopping materials to different virtual channels according to the different products purchased by the consumers. The information system 202; each virtual path information system transmits the data to a physical path distribution system 203; and the physical path distribution system selects at least one shipping path provider 204 corresponding to the purchased item according to the type of the product purchased by the consumer; The distribution system calculates the physical distance of the optimal (short) distance corresponding to the location where the consumer receives the commodity According to the point, and the physical access point corresponds to the aforementioned shipping route provider, and then selects a preferred physical access point 205 corresponding to the location where the consumer receives the commodity; the physical path distribution system transmits the data to the selected physical access point 206; The purchased merchandise is delivered from the selected physical transit location to the receiving merchandise location 207; in the present embodiment, the physical intensive area is ordered in the morning on the virtual access shopping platform, and the afternoon merchandise can be delivered to the receiving merchandise location.

The above description can be used to understand the specific flow and system architecture of the store-to-home delivery method of the present invention, and the store-to-home delivery method implemented by the technologies has at least the following features and advantages:

1. The goods ordered on the virtual channel shopping platform can be delivered to the consumer in a short time: the delivery of the goods to the receiving goods location can be completed only by a physical delivery route to the receiving goods location (ie, a part of the logistics distribution is omitted) Steps), it is not necessary to deliver the goods like the prior art to the receiving place by two or more pieces of delivery, and the time for the goods to be delivered to the place where the goods are received can be shortened; and the physical channel distribution system calculates and selects and consumes Receiving the physical path of the shortest distance corresponding to the commodity location to select a preferred physical access point corresponding to the location where the consumer receives the commodity, so that the time from the physical transit location to the receiving commodity location can be further reduced, so that the virtual pathway is Products purchased on the shopping platform can be delivered to the consumer in a short time.

2. Integration of access advantages: The present invention can use a convenience store that has been densely arranged as a physical access point for the store-to-home delivery service, and at present, the degree of popularity of the convenience store in the country is easy to set as the home and work of the place where the consumer receives the goods. There are often convenience stores near the location or school location, and you can enjoy the advantages of densely built physical access points without having to spend a lot of money to increase your position.

3. Providing a fast and convenient shopping delivery service for consumers: the delivery of goods to the receiving goods location can be completed only by a physical delivery route to a delivery of the receiving goods location, so the delivery time is more than two segments. Existing technologies are easier to assess. For example, when the location of the receiving commodity location is in a densely populated area, the consumer can specify the goods to be delivered to the receiving commodity location at a certain time during shopping (eg, four hours and six hours after ordering, Eight hours, or agreed to a specific receipt time interval).

4. Reduce the cost of goods distribution: the delivery of goods can be completed only by a physical delivery route to a delivery of the goods receiving location. It is not necessary to deliver the goods to the receiving goods location after two or more pieces of delivery. By shortening the time when the product is delivered to the place where the product is received, the energy cost of the distribution can be reduced, and the cost of the product is reduced. The present invention utilizes the replenishment mechanism originally provided by the physical access point, and does not add additional cost by supporting the aforementioned function.

10. . . Virtual channel shopping platform

20. . . Virtual path information system

30. . . Physical path distribution system

40. . . Physical access point

1 is a schematic diagram of a system architecture of the present invention

2 is a flow chart of the delivery method of the present invention

10. . . Virtual channel shopping platform

20. . . Virtual path information system

30. . . Physical path distribution system

40. . . Physical access point

Claims (10)

A store-to-home delivery method includes the following steps: providing a virtual access shopping platform for a consumer to purchase a product and selecting to receive a product location and delivery time; the virtual access shopping platform transmits the shopping data according to different purchases by the consumer To different virtual channel information systems; each virtual channel information system transmits the data to a physical channel distribution system; and the entity channel distribution system selects at least one shipping channel operator corresponding to the purchased product according to the type of goods purchased by the consumer; The physical path distribution system calculates an entity path base corresponding to the optimal distance corresponding to the location at which the consumer receives the product, and then selects a preferred entity access point corresponding to the location of the consumer receiving the commodity; the entity access point has the supply of the purchased product The cargo mechanism; the physical channel distribution system transmits the data to the selected physical route base; and the purchased goods are delivered from the selected physical route site to the receiving commodity site. The store-to-home delivery method of claim 1, further comprising: providing a bill clearing system, and when the consumer completes the payment, the received payment is transmitted to the account clearing system. The account clearing or settlement is based on the shipping path and payment method of the consumer shopping list. For example, the store-to-home delivery method described in claim 2, the physical access point refers to a convenience store. For example, the store-to-home delivery method described in claim 2, the physical access point refers to a business office of a different store or home delivery company. For example, the store-to-home delivery method described in claim 3 or 4, the virtual access shopping platform is a shopping website or a television shopping platform. A store-to-home distribution system, comprising: more than one virtual access platform, providing consumers with goods to purchase and selecting delivery time; more than one virtual access information system is connected with the virtual access platform, and is connected through the connection Receiving consumer shopping data; a physical channel distribution system is connected to the virtual channel information system for receiving shopping materials, and selecting one or more shipments corresponding to the purchased products according to different purchases of goods in the shopping materials The channel operator, and calculating an entity path base corresponding to the optimal distance corresponding to the location at which the consumer receives the product, and then selecting a preferred entity route base corresponding to the location where the consumer receives the product, and transmitting the shopping data to the selected physical route base. A physical delivery route is provided to the receiving commodity location; wherein the physical routing location has a replenishment mechanism for the purchased commodity. The store-to-home delivery system of claim 6, further comprising: providing a billing clearing system, when the consumer completes online payment from the virtual channel shopping platform, the received payment is transmitted to In the account clearing system, the account clearing or settlement is performed according to the shipping path and payment method of the consumer shopping list. For example, the store-to-home distribution system described in claim 7 of the patent scope refers to a convenience store. For example, the store-to-home distribution system described in claim 7 of the patent scope refers to a business office of a different store or home delivery company. The virtual access shopping platform is a shopping website or a television shopping platform, as claimed in the store-to-home distribution system described in claim 8 or 9.