WO2010131293A1

WO2010131293A1 - Inventory management server

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Publication number: WO2010131293A1
Application number: PCT/JP2009/002077
Authority: WO
Inventors: 山本裕之; 矢作直央; 野村和臣
Original assignee: モノプラス株式会社
Priority date: 2009-05-13
Filing date: 2009-05-13
Publication date: 2010-11-18

Abstract

Mobile inventory management is performed in order to suppress as far as possible the loss of sales opportunities and inventory management costs. When an inventory management server (10) receives a new order request, said server confirms whether or not the order quantity which indicates the number of products ordered in the order request is less than the quantity available to reserve during the shipping allowed period which includes the expected shipping date when the order in the order request was received. If the decision is that the order quantity is not less than the quantity available to reserve, it is confirmed whether or not the order quantity is less than the total quantity available to reserve which combines the quantity available to reserve in the shipping allowed period including the expected shipping date when the order of the order request was received and the quantity available included in the current inventory management information. If the order quantity is determined to be less than the quantity available to reserve, the decision is to accept the order of the order request. If the order quantity is determined to be less than the total quantity available to reserve, the decision is to accept the order of the order request.

Description

Inventory management server

The present invention relates to an inventory management server that manages an inventory of products to be sold to customers.

Conventionally, when selling a product, when the seller accepts an order from a customer, it determines whether or not the inventory managed by the customer can be allocated for each order, and there is no inventory currently available for allocation. No order was accepted.

However, there are cases where it is sufficient for the customer to obtain the desired product by the desired date of delivery date, or to obtain information on whether or not the product can be obtained regardless of the delivery date.

In such a case, in order to prevent loss of sales opportunities as being unable to receive orders uniformly, for example, in Patent Document 1, when there is no product that can be assigned to the stock of one's own warehouse, the product to be received is assigned. It is also disclosed to expand the customer's selection and increase the sales opportunity by allocating the product of the production plan if it is not possible.

Patent No. 3239980

However, in the conventional stock management system, when there is an inventory that can be allocated under own control when an order is received, it is configured to allocate the inventory for the order, for example, the requested delivery date is late. There is a problem that it is only possible to make a normal order for an order and make an order in the form of a reservation for a subsequent urgent order, resulting in the loss of sales opportunities.

On the other hand, it is possible to increase the amount of inventory that you manage yourself to avoid missing sales opportunities to customers who want urgent deliveries, but in this case the cost of keeping the inventory will increase and the inventory will remain unsold. There is also the problem that the danger also increases.

The present invention solves such a problem and enables to flexibly carry out inventory management, and can minimize the loss of sales opportunities as much as possible, and minimize the inventory storage cost as much as possible. The purpose is to be able to

The inventory management server according to the present invention is an inventory management server that manages inventory of goods, and can assign to a new order out of the current stock quantity indicating the current stock quantity of the goods and the current stock quantity. Current inventory control information storage means for storing current inventory control information including an available number indicating the number of products, a shippable period set according to the future arrival schedule of the products, and the number of products scheduled to be received Future inventory management information storage means for storing future inventory management information including the number of reserveable items indicating the number of products that can be allocated to new orders in the above-mentioned shipping possible period, and new order requests received When the future stock management information is referred to, the number of orders indicating the number of items ordered by the order request can be reserved for the possible shipment period including the scheduled shipping date when the order request is received. Less than or equal to If the number of orders is judged not to be equal to or less than the reserveable number by the future stock check means, the future stock control information and the current stock control information are referred to. A combination of the number of reservations available for the shipping period including the planned shipping date when the order request is received and the number available for allocation included in the current inventory management information. A total inventory checking means for checking whether or not the total number is below the possible total number, and when it is judged by the future stock checking means that the number of orders is less than or equal to the number of reserveable reservations, the order request is accepted. The first order receiving unit to determine, and the second note to determine to receive the order of the order request when it is determined by the total inventory checking unit that the number of orders is equal to or less than the total possible number of provisions. Characterized in that it comprises a receiving unit.

With the above configuration, it is possible to perform inventory management that can respond flexibly, to minimize loss of sales opportunities, and to minimize inventory storage costs as much as possible. Become.

Reservation allocation in the future stock management information in order to allocate a part or all of the reservation allocatable number to the order number in response to the first order acceptance means having decided to receive the order The system may be configured to include a first inventory information update unit that subtracts the number of orders reserved for reservations from the number of available to update the number of allocatable reservations.

In response to the decision by the second order acceptance means to accept an order, all of the reserveable total number of reserveable totals are reserved for the order number, and the total of the total possible rates is allocated In order to allocate part or all of the possible numbers to the number of the above-mentioned orders not reserved for reservations, the number of reservations available for subtraction is subtracted from the number of reservations available for availability in the future stock management information May be configured to include a second inventory information updating unit that updates the available number by updating the available number in the current inventory management information and subtracting the allocated number.

Received order information including the scheduled number of reservations and the number of provisions indicating the contents of provision of the number of orders of the received order in accordance with the scheduled shipping date for shipping the goods of the received order in response to the decision to receive the order. It may be configured to include an order completed information registration unit to be registered.

When the arrival schedule information indicating the arrival schedule of the product is received, the shipping available period set according to the arrival schedule indicated by the arrival schedule information corresponds to the number of reserveable reservations indicated by the number of items scheduled to be received The future stock management information updating means for registering the future stock management information added and updating the future stock management information stored in the future stock management information storage means, and referring to the received order information, the arrival schedule information If there is a plan to be shipped within the available shipping period set according to the schedule of arrival shown and the number of provisions is set, the upper limit of the number of reserves available for reservation indicated by the number of items scheduled to be received Ordered information updating means for changing the allocation number to reservation allocation number, and future stock management registered by the future stock management information updating means when the received order information is updated by the received order information updating means A reserve provisionable number updating means for updating the reserve provision possible number by subtracting the reserve provision number changed by the order completed information update means from the reserve provision possible number indicated by the number of products scheduled to be received in information; It may be done.

According to the present invention, it is possible to perform inventory management that can respond flexibly, to minimize loss of sales opportunities, and to minimize inventory storage costs.

It is a block diagram showing an example of composition of an inventory control system containing an inventory control server in an embodiment of the present invention. It is explanatory drawing which shows the example of the present stock management information. It is an explanatory view showing an example of arrival schedule information. It is an explanatory view showing an example of order completion information. It is an explanatory view showing an example of future stock control information. It is a flow chart which shows an example of arrival management processing. It is an explanatory view showing an example of future stock control information. It is an explanatory view showing an example of future stock control information. It is a flow chart which shows an example of order acceptance processing. It is an explanatory view showing an example of order completion information. It is a flowchart which shows the example of a delivery management process.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing an example of the configuration of an inventory management system 100 showing an embodiment of the present invention. As shown in FIG. 1, the inventory management system 100 includes an inventory management server 10, vendor terminals 21 to 2N (N: arbitrary positive integer), and customer terminals 31 to 3N (N: arbitrary positive integer) And).

The stock management server 10, the vendor terminals 21 to 2N, and the customer terminals 31 to 3N are connected to a communication network 90 such as the Internet, for example.

The inventory management server 10 is a system administrator of the present system, and is a server managed by the seller A who sells goods ordered and sold using the system, for example, information processing such as WWW server etc. Configured by the device. For example, the inventory management server 10 manages various changes in the number of stocks of products held by the seller A for sale, and calculates the number of allocatable allowances on a current or future specific day. It has a function.

Further, the stock management server 10 includes a stock management DB 10A in which various types of information for managing stock are stored. The stock management DB 10A may be inside the stock management server 10 or may be external and connected by communication.

The information stored in the inventory management server 10 includes current inventory management information, arrival schedule information, received order information, and future inventory management information. Each of these pieces of information will be described in detail later.

Each of the vendor terminals 21 to 2N is managed by, for example, a product manufacturer, and is configured by an information processing apparatus such as a personal computer. Each of the vendor terminals 21 to 2N has various functions such as a function of receiving an order from the seller A and transmitting shipping information including the scheduled delivery date and time of the goods related to the received order to the stock management server 10 .

Each of the customer terminals 31 to 3N is managed by a customer such as a trader who purchases a product from the trader A or an individual, and is constituted by an information processing apparatus such as a personal computer. Each of the customer terminals 31 to 3 N receives input of order reception request information including, for example, the desired delivery date, the purchase desired product, and the number of products desired to be purchased by a predetermined operation of the customer managed by itself, and transmits it to the stock management server 10 It has various functions such as functions.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory view showing an example of current stock management information. The current stock information is information that can identify the status of the current number of stocks, and as shown in FIG. 2, a product ID that can uniquely identify the product, and the corresponding product currently stored by the dealer A. The current inventory number indicating the number of inventory items, and the available inventory number indicating the number of items of the corresponding item that can be currently allocated to a new order among the current inventory numbers.

FIG. 3 is an explanatory view showing an example of arrival schedule information. The arrival schedule information is information that can specify the situation of the arrival schedule of the product, and as shown in FIG. 3, is information including the product ID, the arrival date, and the arrival quantity. In the present embodiment, the arrival schedule information is received by the inventory management server 10 when receiving shipment information (item ID, estimated shipping date, and information including shipping quantity or planned delivery quantity) from the vendor terminals 21 to 2N. It shall be accumulated accordingly and shall be deleted when confirmation of arrival is made. The scheduled arrival date may be a scheduled arrival date not including the day but including the time. Similarly, the planned shipping date of shipping information may be a shipping date and time including up to time instead of day.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory view of an example of the allocated stock information. The allocated stock information is information capable of identifying the allocated status before shipping, which has been received, and as shown in FIG. Desired delivery date, scheduled shipping date (may be scheduled shipping date and time), the number of provisions indicating the number of products reserved for the current number of stocks, and the number of products reserved for the number of possible reservation allowances described later The number of reserved reservations shown is information associated with each order. Here, the planned shipping date has a function of calculating the number of days required for the movement of goods by the inventory management server 10 (the number of days of movement from shipment to delivery), and may be calculated using the desired delivery date and the seller address. The configuration may be determined by the dealer A. In this example, for the sake of simplicity, it is assumed that the moving days are all one day.

FIG. 5 is an explanatory view showing an example of future stock management information. The future stock management information is information that can identify the number of stocks that can be reserved for reservation at a certain point in the future, and as shown in FIG. The shipping availability period indicating the range of (the shipping availability date and time may be used) and the reservation availability possible number indicating the number of applicable products which can be reserved for reservation during the shipping availability period are information associated with each other. In other words, “Reservation allowance available count” indicates the number of goods that can be reserved for reservation during the available shipping date period out of the number of arrival for goods expected to be received from the manufacturer side to the distributor A It is.

Next, the operation of the stock management system 100 of this example will be described. In the following description, it is assumed that the present is April 5, 2009.

FIG. 6 is a flow chart showing an example of the stock management process in the stock management system 100 of this embodiment. Here, the case where inventory management server 10 performs processing etc. which update the information stored in inventory management DB 10A according to the shipment information etc. from supplier terminal 21 is explained to an example. This arrival management process is, for example, performed periodically. The description may be omitted except for the processing particularly related to the present invention.

In the arrival management process, the stock management server 10 first receives the shipping information (item ID, shipping date or planned shipping date, and information including shipping quantity or planned shipping quantity) from the vendor terminal 21 (step S101). (Y), to generate arrival schedule information from the received shipping information and register it in the inventory management DB 10A (step S102). In this case, the scheduled arrival date may be determined by the stock management server 10 based on the shipping date or the shipping scheduled date, or may be included in the shipping information. The planned arrival quantity corresponds to the shipment quantity or the planned shipment quantity.

Next, the inventory management server 10 updates the future inventory management information based on the generated arrival schedule information (step S103). For example, assuming that the estimated arrival date indicated by the generated arrival schedule information is April 7, 2009 and the estimated arrival quantity is 100, the stock management server 10 can ship from the estimated arrival date (for example, April 2009). Determine the 8th day), add the possible shipping period as necessary, and add 100 to the reserveable numbers for each possible shipping period after the decided shipping date. Specifically, when the future stock management information has the contents shown in FIG. 5, the shipping availability period after April 8 is added, and the number of reserveable reservations for each shipping availability period after April 8 100 is added to each, and the contents shown in FIG. 7 are updated.

When the future stock management information is updated based on the arrival schedule information, the stock management server 10 refers to the received order information, and for the corresponding product, the shipment is scheduled after the first day of the possible shipping period newly set in the future stock management information. It is checked whether there is a day and the number of provisions is set (step S104). Specifically, when the content is updated to the content shown in FIG. 7, for the product of the product ID “1,” the scheduled shipping date is from April 8, 2009, and the number of provisions is set. For example, in the case where the received order information is the content shown in FIG.

If the first and subsequent days of the newly-settable possible shipping period are scheduled to be shipped and there are items for which the number of provisions has been set (Y in step S104), the inventory management server 10 determines future inventory management information Change the number or part of the number of provisions in the received information to the number of reservation allowances up to the applicable reservation allowance number (step S105), and make a reservation for each possible shipment period after the applicable shipment possible period The reserveable number is updated by subtracting the number changed from the reserveable number to the reserve amount (step S106), and the reserveable number is added to the reserveable number in the current stock management information and the number can be added to the reserve number. The number is updated (step S107).

When the future stock management information is updated to the content shown in FIG. 7 in step S103 and the received order information is the content shown in FIG. 4, the stock management server 10 is newly shipped in step S105. The number of provisions "100" for which the shipping schedule date is from the first day of the possible period is changed to the number of reservation reserves, and in step S106 each of the possible numbers of reserved reserves in each possible shipping period for April 8, 2009 or later The number “100” changed to the number of reservation allocations is subtracted and the number of reservation allowances is updated to the content shown in FIG.

Next, when the stock management server 10 acquires arrival record information by, for example, the operation of the administrator of the server 10 (Y in step S108), the stock management server 10 performs an arrival handling process such as deletion of the corresponding arrival schedule information (step S109) . The arrival record information is information input by the administrator of the server 10 when the arrival of the product to be received is confirmed, and which of the items to be received corresponding to the information on the arrival of the product has been received Is information including information that can be identified and that the arrival has been completed.

In addition to deleting the corresponding arrival schedule information, processing for changing the corresponding arrival schedule quantity to the current number of stocks, processing for changing the applicable reservation allowance number to the possible allocation number, and the corresponding reservation allocation number Including processing to change to the number of provisions.

Next, order reception processing in the stock management system 100 will be described. FIG. 9 is a flowchart showing an example of the order receiving process of this embodiment. Here, a case will be described as an example in which a process of determining whether to accept an order or the like is performed according to the order acceptance request received from the customer terminal 31. The contents of the processes not related to the present invention may be omitted.

In the order receiving process, the inventory management server 10 receives the order receiving request information from the customer terminal 31 (a product ID capable of specifying the product, a sales destination address as a sale destination of the product, a desired delivery date of the product, and a quantity of the product When information including the desired product number is received (Y in step S301), the future stock management information is referred to, and reservation reservation for the possible shipment period including the scheduled shipping date determined from the desired delivery date included in the received order request information Whether or not reservation allocation is possible is confirmed by confirming whether the possible number is equal to or more than the desired number of items included in the order request information (step S302).

If the reservation allowance number is equal to or more than the desired number of products, the stock management server 10 determines that the reservation allowance is possible (Y in step S302), and transmits an order availability notification to the customer terminal 31 (step S303). Then, the stock management server 10 generates received order information from the received order request information and registers the received information in the stock management DB 10A (step S304). In this case, received order information is generated with the number of desired products as the number of reserved reservations. Then, the inventory management server 10 updates the reserveable number by subtracting the reserveable number from the reserveable number of each shipping possible period after the applicable shipping possible period in the future stock management information (step S305). ).

If the reserveable number is less than the number of desired products, the stock management server 10 determines that the order can not be received only by the reserve (N in step S302), and determines from the desired delivery date included in the received order request information. Check whether the total available count of the reserveable number of available shipment period including the planned shipping date and the available number in the current inventory management information is more than the desired number of items included in the order request information. Thus, it is checked whether allocation is possible (step S306).

If the total number of items that can be allocated is equal to or more than the number of desired products, the stock management server 10 determines that allocation is possible (Y in step S306), and transmits an order available notification to the customer terminal 31 (step S307). . Then, the stock management server 10 generates received order information from the received order request information and registers the received information in the stock management DB 10A (step S308). In this case, it is possible to generate order completion information in which the entire reserveable number among the allocatable totals is the reserve number, and the reserveable total number is a number other than the reserveable number. The number of reserved reservations may be zero. Then, when the number of reservation allowances is not 0, the stock management server 10 subtracts the number of reservation allowances from the number of reservation allowances in each shipping possible period after the applicable shipping possible period in the future stock management information. The reservation allowance number is updated (step S309). Also, the inventory management server 10 subtracts the number of provisions from the number of provisions available in the current inventory management information to update the number of provisions available (step S310).

If the allocatable total number is less than the number of desired products, the stock management server 10 determines that allocation is impossible (N in step S306), and transmits an order impossible notification to the customer terminal 31 (step S311).

Order processing is performed as described above. Specifically, when the current inventory management information, the arrival schedule information, the received order information, and the future inventory management information are in the states shown in FIGS. 2 to 5, respectively, the desired delivery date is for the product of the product ID "1". Assuming that we received an order request for the desired number of products “200” on April 10, 2009 (the planned shipping date will be determined on April 9 of the previous day), Since the reservation allocatable number is "0", it is determined as N in step S302, and since the allocatable total number is "200" which is only the allocatable number, it is determined as Y in step S306, for example, as shown in FIG. In step S308, order completion information having the number of reservation allocations of "0" and the number of allocations of "200" is registered, and the number of possible reservation allocations in step S309 is not updated. Updated to "0" And thus.

Next, shipping management processing in the stock management system 100 will be described. FIG. 11 is a flowchart showing an example of the shipping management process of this embodiment. Here, when the current inventory management information, arrival schedule information, received order information, and future inventory management information are in the states shown in FIG. 2 to FIG. 5, respectively, it becomes April 9, 2009, and The process when 100 items are shipped will be described as an example. The contents of the processes not related to the present invention may be omitted.

In the shipping management process, when the inventory management server 10 acquires shipping result information, for example, by an operation of the administrator of the server 10 (Y in step S301), the inventory management server 10 performs shipping correspondence processing such as deletion of corresponding received order information (step S302). The shipping record information is information that is input by the administrator of the server 10 when the shipment of the product to be shipped is confirmed, and which of the received order information the shipment of the product to be shipped has been completed Is information including information that can be identified and that the shipment has been completed.

The shipping handling processing includes processing for subtracting the number of provisions in the received order information that is the deletion target from the current stock number in the current stock management information, as well as deletion of the corresponding received order information. Here, the current stock number is reduced from 300 to 100 to 200. Note that the number of allowances is not changed.

As described above, in the above-described embodiment, the stock management server 10 that manages stock of a product is able to generate a new order out of the current stock quantity indicating the current stock quantity of the product and the current stock quantity. A current inventory management database (inventory management database 10A) storing current inventory management information including an available number indicating the number of products that can be allocated, and a shippable period set according to the future arrival schedule of products Future inventory management DB (inventory management DB 10A) that stores future inventory management information including the number of products scheduled to be received and the number of products that can be allocated to a new order in the shippable period, indicating the number of products available for reservation And, when a new order request is received, the future inventory management information is referred to, and the number of items indicating the number of items ordered by the order request is the planned shipping date when the order request is received. Including Check whether it is less than or equal to the reservation allowance number in the shipping available period, and if it is determined that the order number is not less than or equal to the reservation allowance number, refer to the future inventory management information and the current inventory management information, Whether or not the total number of reservations available in the available period, including the planned shipping date when the order request is received, and the available number included in the current inventory management information is less than or equal to the total number available If it is determined that the number of orders is equal to or less than the reserveable number, it is determined to accept the order request, and if it is determined that the number of orders is equal to or less than the total number of allocatables, the order is confirmed. Since it is decided to receive the order of the request, it is possible to carry out the inventory management which can respond flexibly, and it is possible to minimize the loss of the sales opportunity as much as possible, and minimize the stock keeping cost as much as possible. To do Kill as to become.

That is, when the inventory management server 10 receives a new order request, it refers to future inventory management information, and when the number of orders indicating the number of items ordered by the order request receives the order of the order request If it is determined that the number of orders is not less than or equal to the number of reservations that can be reserved, the future inventory management information and the current inventory management information will be checked. The number of orders can be allocated by combining the available number of reservations in the available period including the planned shipping date when the order request is received with the available number included in the current inventory control information. It is determined whether or not the number of orders is equal to or less than the total number, and if it is determined that the number of orders is equal to or less than the reservation allocatable number, it is determined to receive the order request order, and determined that the number of orders is equal to or less than the allocatable total number If requested, the order request Since it is determined to accept orders, it is possible to assign the reserveable number in the future inventory management information in preference to the available number in the current inventory management information, and the available number in the current inventory management information It will be possible to secure for order items close in due date in future orders. As a result, it is possible to perform inventory management that can respond flexibly, and it is possible to minimize the loss of sales opportunities. Furthermore, since it is not necessary to secure a large number of stocks by performing stock management that can flexibly respond, stock storage costs can be minimized as much.

Also, when the inventory management server 10 determines that the number of orders is not less than or equal to the number of reserveable reservations, it refers to the future inventory management information and the current inventory management information, and the number of orders receives an order request Make sure that the number of orders can be allocated by checking whether the total number of reservations available in the available period, including the planned shipping date, is equal to or less than the total number of available items included in the current inventory management information. When it is determined that the number is less than or equal to the total number, it is determined to receive the order of the order request. Therefore, if it is not sufficient to reserve only the reservation reserveable number in the future stock management information, the current stock management information Not only the available number but also the total number of available and available reserves can be used to check whether the available resources can be allocated or not, even if only available reserves are not sufficient. It is possible to prioritize allocation of possible allowances to a part of the number of orders, and secure a part of the allocatable number in current inventory control information for order items that will be due in the near future for future orders. Is possible. As a result, it is possible to perform inventory management that can respond flexibly, and it is possible to minimize the loss of sales opportunities. Furthermore, since it is not necessary to secure a large number of stocks by performing stock management that can flexibly respond, stock storage costs can be minimized as much.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the reservation management system 10 can make a reservation allowance in response to the fact that the order number is determined to be equal to or less than the reservation allowance number, and it is determined that the order request is accepted. In order to reserve a part or all of the number for the number of orders, the number of available reserves is updated by subtracting the number of reserved orders from the possible number of reserved reservations in the future stock management information, so that it is simple It becomes possible to update the management information for inventory management to the state after reservation allocation by the above process.

In the above-described embodiment, the inventory management server 10 determines that the order request is to be accepted because it is determined that the number of orders is equal to or less than the total number of provisions. In order to reserve all reservations for the number of possible reservations and to allocate part or all of the total possible provisions to the number of orders not allocated for reservations, future inventory The configuration is such that the reserveable number is updated by subtracting the reserve amount from the reserve amount in the management information and the reserve amount is updated by subtracting the reserve amount from the available number in the current inventory management information. Therefore, it is possible to update the management information for inventory management to a state after reservation allocation and allocation or after allocation by simple processing.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, in response to the fact that the stock management server 10 determines that the order is accepted, provision contents of the planned shipping date for shipping the goods of the received order and the number of orders received Because it is configured to register received order information including the number of reserved reservations and the number of reserved, it is necessary to register the contents of the order so that the number of reserved reservations and the number of allocated in the reserved order can be identified Is possible.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, when the stock management server 10 receives the arrival schedule information indicating the arrival schedule of the product, the available shipping period set according to the arrival schedule indicated by the arrival schedule information, The future stock management information stored in the future stock management DB (stock management DB 10A) is updated by registering the future stock management information in which it is associated with the reservation allocatable number indicated by the number of products scheduled to be received, and the order has been received. If there is a plan to be shipped during the available shipping period set according to the arrival schedule indicated by the arrival schedule information referring to the information and there is a set number of provisions, the number of items scheduled to be received is Change the number of reserves to the number of reservation reserves by changing the number of reservations to the number of reservation allowances as the upper limit of the number of reservation allowances shown, and change from the reservation allocatable number indicated by the number of products scheduled to be received in the registered future inventory management information Because the have a number of reservations allowance and configured to update the number of possible reservation allowance is subtracted, it is possible to update the management information for inventory management by simple processing in a state that takes into account the new stock plan.

In the above-described embodiment, although the storage location (for example, the warehouse) of each item for inventory management by the inventory management server 10 is described as not distinguishing one or a plurality of storage locations, the same storage location may be used. The products may be stored in a plurality of storage locations, and the plurality of storage locations may be distinguished from one another. In this case, a storage location ID capable of identifying the storage location is used. For example, with respect to current inventory management information, the current inventory number and the available number of provisions are managed for each storage location of the corresponding product. It may be made to correspond to the storage location ID. Further, with regard to the future stock management information, the reservation allowance number may be managed for each storage location of the corresponding product, and may be associated with the storage location ID of the corresponding storage location. Furthermore, the storage location ID indicating the storage planned location is also associated with the arrival schedule information, and it is possible to specify from which storage location each product of the number of provisions and the number of reservation allowances is shipped Thus, the number of allocations and the number of reservation allocations may be divided and managed for each storage location, and the storage location ID may be associated with each of the divided number of allocations and the number of reservation allocations. When configured in this way, when the same product is stored at a plurality of storage locations, processing of arrival or shipment at the corresponding storage location as in the embodiment described above when the storage location is moved As a result, it becomes possible to reserve reservations preferentially when moving storage locations, and it is possible to reduce the number of provisions as much as possible and respond flexibly to new orders.

Although not particularly mentioned in the above-described embodiment, the various types of processing described above are executed in accordance with a processing program (inventory management processing program) stored in a storage medium included in the inventory management server 10.

According to the present invention, it is useful to provide an inventory management server capable of flexibly dealing with inventory management, minimizing loss of sales opportunities, and minimizing inventory storage costs as much as possible.

10 inventory management server 10A inventory management DB
21 to 2 N vendor terminals 31 to 3 N customer terminals 90 communication network 100 stock management system

Claims

An inventory management server that manages inventory of products, and
Current inventory management storing current inventory management information including current inventory number indicating the current inventory number of the product and available number indicating the number of items of the current inventory number that can be allocated to a new order Information storage means,
The available shipping period set in accordance with the future arrival schedule of the product, and the number of available reservation allowances indicating the number of available items for the new available order of the available shipping period among the number of products scheduled to be received Future stock management information storage means for storing future stock management information including
When a new order request is received, the future inventory control information is referred to, and the number of orders indicating the number of items ordered by the order request includes a scheduled shipping date when the order request is received. Future inventory confirmation means for confirming whether or not it is equal to or less than the reservation allowance number of the shipping possible period;
If it is determined by the future stock check means that the number of orders is not less than or equal to the number of reservations available, the future stock control information and the current stock control information are referred to, and the number of orders is the order request order Total inventory to check whether it is equal to or less than the total possible number of provisions including the number of possible reservations for the shipping period including the planned shipping date when received and the number of possible provisions included in the current inventory management information Confirmation means,
A first order receiving unit that determines to receive an order for the order request when it is determined by the future stock check unit that the order number is less than or equal to the reservation allocatable number;
And a second order receiving unit that determines to receive the order request when the total inventory check unit determines that the number of orders is less than or equal to the total number of reservables. server.
Reservation allocation in the future stock management information in order to allocate a part or all of the reservation allocatable number to the order number in response to the first order acceptance means having decided to receive the order The stock management server according to claim 1, further comprising: first stock information updating means for subtracting the number of orders reserved for reservation from the possible number to update the number of possible reservations.
In response to the decision by the second order acceptance means to accept an order, all of the reserveable total number of reserveable totals are reserved for the order number, and the total of the total possible rates is allocated In order to allocate part or all of the possible numbers to the number of the above-mentioned orders not reserved for reservations, the number of reservations available for subtraction is subtracted from the number of reservations available for availability in the future stock management information The stock management server according to claim 1 or 2, further comprising: a second stock information updating unit that updates the available number by updating the available number in the current inventory management information and subtracting the allocated number from the available number in the current inventory management information.
Received order information including the scheduled number of reservations and the number of provisions indicating the contents of provision of the number of orders of the received order in accordance with the scheduled shipping date for shipping the goods of the received order in response to the decision to receive the order. The stock management server according to any one of claims 1 to 3, including an order completed information registration unit to register.
When the arrival schedule information indicating the arrival schedule of the product is received, the shipping available period set according to the arrival schedule indicated by the arrival schedule information corresponds to the number of reserveable reservations indicated by the number of items scheduled to be received Future stock management information updating means for registering the future stock management information added and updating the future stock management information stored in the future stock management information storage means;
If there is a plan to be shipped during the available shipping period set according to the arrival schedule indicated by the arrival schedule information with reference to the received order information, the arrival number is set, the arrival time Ordered information updating means for changing the number of reservations to the number of reservation reserves up to the number of reservation allowances indicated by the number of planned products;
The received order information can be obtained from the number of reserveable products indicated by the number of products scheduled to be received in the future stock management information registered by the future stock management information updating means when the received order information is updated by the order received information updating means. 5. The stock management server according to claim 4, further comprising: a reserveable number update means for updating the reserve amount by subtracting the reserve number changed by the update means.