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Definitions

• Item routing system allowing the refusal of the object and the resale of the object after its refusal
• the field of the invention is that of logistics, and in particular that of goods delivery techniques.
• the invention relates to an object routing system of the type implementing a logistics platform, a computer platform and packaging (or parcels) "connected" to the computer platform.
• a delivery service takes care of the packages containing the objects to be delivered, with a list of the objects and, in correspondence, the names and addresses of the recipients.
• the deliverer Once the deliverer has reached the delivery address, several situations may arise, namely: the recipient of the object comes to open it and identify it as such, in which case the delivery person gives him the object and has a delivery note signed; the person does not answer, in which case the delivery person leaves with the object, this in general after having indicated his passage by the deposit of a voucher. In some cases, the deliverer will take the responsibility of going to ask a neighbor to ask him to accept the handling of the object and will then have him sign the delivery slip in place of the intended recipient.
• the object and the packaging that contains it generate a certain number of operations, including: computer recording of the return; unpacking the object from its packaging; the computer entry of the return to the store of the object and therefore the entry of its availability for sale; destruction or recycling of used packaging; the repackaging of the object in the event that it is again the subject of an order.
• the object of the invention is to propose a system for routing objects from a logistics platform which eliminates, or at the very least considerably limits the waste of objects having been refused, to the address of delivery, by the sponsor of the object (or by a person, at the delivery address, considering that he is not the sponsor of the object).
• the invention also aims to propose such a routing system which limits the additional operating costs linked to the refusal, at the delivery address, of the objects by the person sponsoring the object (or by another person, to the delivery address, considering that it is not the sponsor of the object).
• the invention also aims to propose such a routing system which makes it possible to optimize the reshipment of a refused object to its delivery address.
• the invention which relates to a system for routing objects from a logistics platform, implementing: packaging intended to contain the objects and each associated with at least one identification code dedicated to at least one object, the packaging comprising at least one electronic display device which can be consulted from outside the package, a computer platform including at least one relative database to the objects and listing the identification codes of all the packaging, the computer platform being configured to send digital data on the availability of the objects to a digital sales interface and to receive, via the digital interface sale, a new digital order order including at least one delivery address, the IT platform being configured to translate the digital order order into a digital datum of unavailability of the object, each packaging comprising first means of communication, the computer platform comprising second means of communication able to communicate directly or indirectly with the first means of communication, the packages further comprising an electronic unit configured to receive data from the computer platform and connected to the display device to transmit to it instructions for displaying the delivery address, characterized in that the computer platform is configured to: receive a numeric
• the refusal of the object at the delivery address is transmitted digitally to the logistics platform which automatically processes the receipt of this digital data to: update the digital sales interface, this by putting it back in stock , and therefore in availability, the refused object; avoid any registration and processing of the object and the packaging that contains it at the logistics platform, in particular by avoiding the unpacking of the object.
• the system according to the invention is optimized thanks to the implementation of "connected” and “intelligent” packaging, these integrating an electronic screen for displaying the delivery address and an electronic unit allowing to receive instructions for displaying the delivery address, with the possible modification of the delivery address in the event of a new sale of the object after its refusal at the delivery address.
• the computer platform is configured to issue, in the absence of a new digital order, an intermediate display instruction, intended for the packaging, of an address of the logistics platform or of a relay point of the logistics platform.
• the computer platform is configured to receive digital acceptance data for the object and to send, to a computer unit present at the delivery address, a digital payment request.
• the computer unit in question can be owned either by the sponsor (computer, smartphone, digital tablet, etc.) or by the delivery person who is then equipped with a digital terminal.
• the invention also relates to a method for conveying objects, implementing: packaging intended to contain the objects and each associated with at least one identification code dedicated to at least one object, the packaging comprising at least one device electronic display that can be consulted from outside the package, a computer platform including at least one database relating to the objects and listing the identification codes of all the packaging, the platform being configured to transmit to a digital interface of sale digital item availability data and to receive, via the digital sales interface, a digital order order including at least one delivery address, the computer platform being configured to translate the digital order from control in a digital datum of unavailability of the object, each packaging comprising first means of communication, the computer platform e comprising second means of communication capable of communicating directly or indirectly with the first means of communication, the packaging further comprising an electronic unit configured to receive data from the computer platform and connected to the display device to transmit to it instructions for displaying the delivery address, characterized in that the computer platform is configured to perform the steps
• the method comprises, with the same advantages as those mentioned above with reference to the routing system, an intermediate step of repatriating the packaging to the logistics platform, followed a step of maintaining the object in its packaging while awaiting a new numerical order.
• FIG. 1 schematically illustrates an object routing system according to the invention
• FIG. 2 schematically illustrates the steps of a routing method implemented using a routing system according to the invention.
• an object routing system implements a plurality of packages 1, of the type each consisting of: a box 10 delimiting a reception volume intended to accommodate one or several objects; a cover 11, connected or not to the box 10, being able to adopt with the box a packaging closing configuration or an opening configuration of the packaging (such as that illustrated by FIG. 1).
• the packages each additionally have: an electronic display device 12, which can be viewed from outside the package; a computer unit 14 configured to transmit display instructions to the electronic display device.
• each packaging is associated with at least one electronic identification code dedicated to an object (or even to several objects constituting a batch).
• the routing system according to the invention further comprises a computer platform 2 including a database 20 relating to the objects to be routed, this database notably matching, for each object, an identification code and a packaging. Furthermore, the routing system according to the invention implements a digital sales interface 3, to which the computer platform 2 is connected by any means of communication allowing an exchange of digital data between the computer platform and the digital interface of sale.
• a database of offers for sale 30 is implemented, aiming to place each object, in a unitary manner, in correspondence with availability data or unavailability data.
• a database will integrate other classic sales information, such as the price of the object, the delivery time, the delivery costs...
• the computer platform 2 is configured to send digital data on the availability of objects to the digital sales interface.
• the exchange of data between the computer platform and the digital sales interface also enables the computer platform to receive, via the digital sales interface, a digital order ordering an object, such a digital order order being accompanied by a delivery address entered by a sponsor of the digital order order.
• the computer platform 2 is configured to translate the digital order order into unavailability data for the object, this data being in turn transmitted to the digital sales interface to make the ordered object unavailable. available for sale, thus avoiding authorizing two orders of the same object.
• each packaging comprises first communication means 13 and the computer platform comprises second communication means 21 able to communicate directly or indirectly with the first communication means present on the packaging.
• the first means of communication and the second means of communication are of the long distance type. Provision is therefore made for the packaging to receive computer data from the computer platform.
• the packages 1 each include an electronic unit 14 configured to receive data from the computer platform. This electronic unit 14 is connected to the electronic display device 12 of the packaging in order to transmit display instructions to it, in particular relating to the digital data resulting from the digital order order and relating to the delivery address. entered by the sponsor.
• the computer platform 2 is configured to: receive a digital item refusal data at the delivery address and, after receiving the digital refusal data, reset the digital unavailability data of the object and send new numerical data on the availability of the object to the digital sales interface, send to the packaging a new instruction for displaying the delivery address, this new instruction being received by the electronic unit 14 of the packaging and transmitted in the form of a display instruction to the display device
• the unitary object in question is put back on sale and is therefore likely to be associated with a new numerical order order with the consequence of processing a new delivery address intended, by the process described above, to be displayed on the packaging display device associated with the object.
• the computer platform is configured to issue, in the absence of receipt of a new digital command order, an intermediate display instruction, intended for packaging.
• an intermediate display instruction can take the form of an address of the logistics platform or that of one of its relay points, to which the packaging will be returned pending a new numerical order for the object under consideration.
• refusal data can be sent by the packaging (via its electronic unit and its means of communication) or by the delivery person's smartphone.
• the computer platform 2 is configured to receive digital acceptance data for the object at the delivery address.
• the computer platform is configured to send a digital payment request to a computer unit present at the delivery address.
• the delivery service has a digital terminal capable of exchanging digital data with the IT platform.
• Acceptance data is transmitted to the digital platform via the digital terminal of the delivery service.
• the acceptance code transmitted by the terminal itself associated with a packaging identification code, makes it possible to match the object with a delivery address and a sponsor.
• the sponsor will have entered by computer the coordinates allowing him to be reached digitally. Using these coordinates, the computer platform therefore sends a digital payment request to the computer unit corresponding to the numerical coordinates entered.
• a routing method can be implemented according to which the computer platform is configured to perform the following steps: receive a digital refusal of the object ordered at the delivery address, this via a computer unit present at the delivery address, either held by a person of the delivery system, or held by the sponsor of the object itself; after receipt of the digital refusal data item, communicate with the digital sales interface in order to reset the unavailability data item of the object and send, to the digital sales interface, a new data item availability object, so that it is again offered for sale; send to the packaging, via the second means of communication of the computer platform and the first means of communication of the packaging, a new instruction for displaying the delivery address.
• the packages containing the ordered objects are delivered from a logistics platform 4 to a sponsor C1 who has placed a digital order order on the digital sales interface, the digital order including its delivery address.
• the packaging is therefore handled by a delivery service which transports an object ordered by a sponsor C1 to the delivery address of the sponsor C1.
• the sponsor C1 accepts the object.
• the computer platform is configured to receive digital acceptance data for the object, this digital data being for example transmitted by the deliverer himself using a digital terminal capable of communicating with the platform. computer science. Consequently, the computer platform sends, to a computer unit present at the delivery address, such as a smartphone, a digital tablet, or even a computer owned by the sponsor C1, a digital payment request.
• the sponsor C1 refuses the delivered object.
• a digital refusal data item is sent to the computer platform.
• This digital refusal data at the level of the IT platform leads to the execution by the IT platform of a step of reinitializing the unavailability data of the object at the level of the database of offers at the sale of the digital sales interface, as well as the emission of new item availability data in the database of offers for sale of the digital sales interface.
• a new digital order order is received at the digital sales interface, which entails a step of translating the digital sales order into unavailability data for the object.
• the computer platform is configured to perform a step of transmitting data from the new delivery address to the electronic unit of the packaging in question, so that these data are displayed on the electronic display device of the 'packaging.
• the packaging is taken care of by the delivery system to deliver it to a C2 sponsor who has placed the second numerical order.
• the routing process provides for an intermediate stage of repatriation of the packaging to the logistics platform or its various relay points (the computer platform executing a transmission of an intermediate display instruction of the address of the logistics platform intended for the packaging, for display of this address on the electronic display device).
• the object is kept in its packaging awaiting a new digital order order (which is represented by the step EM in FIG. 2).
• the recipient customer can offer a storage service for the packaging pending a new order so as not to clutter the logistics platform or its relay points.
• the customer deposits the packaging at a relay point for immediate departure to the customer of the new order.
• the packaging is delivered to the address of a C3 sponsor who has placed the new numerical order.
• the IT platform is configured to execute an EP step consisting in issuing a digital payment request linked to the acceptance of the object by the sponsor.

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