JPH08147375A - Additional order device and method - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To efficiently make the additional order for an article. CONSTITUTION: A store 20 has an article master DB 22 storing inventory type information showing whether the additional order for each article is possible or not. This inventory type information is the information showing an A type article when all of a work in process inventory, a physical distribution center inventory and a store inventory exist, a B type article when only the work in process inventory does not exist and a C type article when only the store inventory exists. When the input showing that any article is sold to a customer is performed by a terminal T, a controller 21 retrieves the article master DB 22 and judges which of the A, B and C type article the article is. In the case of the A and B types articles, the additional order data of the article is transmitted and outputted to a physical distribution center 30 via a public line 40 and a head office 10 by a modem M. In the case of the C type article, the additional order data is not transmitted.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method for automatically performing a sell-only additional order in the apparel industry.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In the apparel industry, a plurality of stores are managed by a predetermined department of a sales company called a headquarters. In recent years, in the apparel industry as well, data generated at each store, such as ordering data and sales data, is communicated to the headquarters via a public line, etc., and the headquarters sends shipping instructions for goods to a distribution center according to the data. It is considered to be able to perform sales total processing.

[0003]

In the apparel industry, when a product is sold at a store, the store is replenished by the amount of the sold product. It has been considered to make an additional order to the distribution center via the headquarters. Here, the distribution center is an inventory base provided in each region for temporarily distributing products manufactured in a factory and then delivering the products to each store as needed.

However, since the store side does not know the stock status of individual products, the additional order will be issued regardless of whether there is stock or not, and at the headquarters, the operator receives the order, and the operator successively receives orders for the products. It was necessary to carry out an inventory survey and give a shipping instruction to the distribution center by telephone or the like.

Further, even if this inventory survey is automated by a computer, the computer at the headquarters will spend its processing time due to useless additional orders. Furthermore, the useless additional order causes the communication line to be wastefully occupied. The present invention has been made in view of the above points, and an object of the present invention is to provide an additional order device and method that can perform an additional order of products without waste.

[0006]

In order to achieve the above object, the additional order device according to the present invention automatically adds a product sold to a customer from a store that sells the product to an inventory base. When ordering, the store stores a product master database that stores inventory type information indicating whether additional orders can be placed for each product, and an input means for inputting that any product has been sold to a customer, In accordance with the input by the input means, a judgment means for judging whether the additional order of the product is possible by the stock type information of the product master database, and only when the judgment means judges that the additional order is possible, And an output control means for transmitting and outputting the additional order data of the product to the inventory site.

Further, in the additional order method according to the present invention, in the case where the product sold to the customer is automatically additionally ordered from the store selling the product to the inventory base,
Is there a product master database that stores inventory type information that indicates whether additional orders can be placed for each product, and whether additional orders can be placed for that product in response to input indicating that one of the products has been sold to the customer? It is characterized in that it is judged based on the stock type information of the product master database, and the additional order data is transmitted and output to the stock site only when possible.

The contents of the inventory type information are the first type, which is the case where all of the in-process inventory, the inventory base inventory, and the store inventory are present, and the inventory base inventory and the store inventory, which are not the in-process inventory. The second type, which is the case,
When the inventory type information of the product is the information indicating the third type, which is information indicating one of the third types in which there is no in-process inventory or inventory base inventory but store inventory, As the additional order is impossible,
The above additional order data shall not be transmitted and output.

[0009]

In other words, according to the additional order apparatus and method of the present invention, the store is provided with a product master database that stores inventory type information indicating whether or not an additional order is possible for each product, and one of the products is a customer. In response to the input indicating that the product has been sold to, it is judged from the stock type information in the product master database whether or not an additional order for the product is possible, and if it is possible, the additional order data is sent to the inventory base. Send output. Therefore, if the additional order is not possible, the additional order is not issued and the additional order can be performed without waste.

[0010]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. In FIG. 1A, the headquarters (hereinafter referred to as the headquarters) 10, a plurality of stores 20 and a distribution center 30 of an apparel maker that manufactures and sells clothes have a modem M, and the modem M enables a public line. It is connected via 40. Here, the distribution center 30 is an inventory base provided in each region for temporarily distributing and inventorying products manufactured in a factory (not shown) and delivering the products to each store 20 as needed from there. is there. In the case of this embodiment, a plurality of distribution centers 30 are provided, but it goes without saying that this may be one.

The head office 10 is connected to the modem M and has a controller 11 for performing various processes such as data transmission / reception and various database (DB) searches and updates. A terminal T including a keyboard and a CRT as its input / output device, a work-in-process inventory DB 12, a distribution center inventory DB 13, a store inventory DB 14, and a product master DB 15 are connected to the controller 11. Here, in-process inventory DB1
2 stores information about the number of each product (clothes) being produced or planned to be produced in a factory (not shown) or the like.
Similarly, the distribution center inventory DB 13 stores information about the number of products stored in the distribution center 30, and the store inventory DB 14 stores information about the number of products stored in each store 20. are doing. Further, the product master DB 15 stores detailed information about each of all the products handled by the headquarters 10 and also stores inventory type information of the products.

Here, the inventory type information is information indicating the distinction between the A type product, the B type product, and the C type product, as shown in FIG. That is, the A-type product is a product that has an in-process inventory (indicated by a circle in the figure) as inventory, and that the distribution center 30 and the store 20 have inventory. In addition, B-type products do not have in-process inventory (indicated by X in the figure).
Means a product that is in stock at the distribution center 30 and the store 20, that is, a product that is not additionally manufactured.
The C-type product is a product that has neither in-process inventory nor inventory at a distribution center and is in stock only in the store 20, that is, a product that cannot be produced or replenished when sold out.

On the other hand, each store 20 has a controller 21 which is connected to the modem M and performs various processes such as data transmission / reception and DB update. To the controller 21, a terminal T including a keyboard and a CRT as its input / output device and a product master DB 22 are connected. Here, the product master DB 22 is a copy of the contents of the product master DB 15 of the head office 10 which is necessary information for each store 20 given via the public line 40, and for all the products handled by the head office 10. It stores necessary information such as the product name and product number, and stores the inventory type information of each product. Alternatively, not all the products but only the products handled by the store 20 may be stored. The content of the product master DB 22 can be searched by the terminal T.

The distribution center 30 has a controller 31 which is connected to the modem M and performs various processes such as data transmission and reception, and a terminal T including a keyboard and a CRT as an input / output device of the controller 31. There is.

Next, the operation of the additional order in such a configuration will be described. Here, the additional order is the store 20.
When an item is sold at, the item is ordered from the store 20 to the head office 10 in the form of so-called additional replenishment so that the sold item can be replenished to the store 20.

FIG. 2 is a flow chart showing the processing operation of the controller 11 on the side of the head office 10, and FIG.
It is a flow chart which shows processing operation of controller 21 by the side of 0.

First, as a pre-process, the head office 10 performs a registration process of inventory type information in the product master DB 15. For each product, the inventory of the product is searched from the in-process inventory DB 12, the distribution center inventory DB 13, and the store inventory DB 14, and if there is an in-process inventory (step S11), it is determined as an A-type product (step S12). If there is no work-in-process inventory but distribution center inventory is available (step S1)
3), if it is a B-type product (step S14), and there is neither in-process inventory nor distribution center inventory but store inventory (step S15), it is written as a C-type product (step S16) in the product master DB 15 (step S16). ). After the inventory type information stored in the product master DB 15 is transmitted to the store 20 by the modem M (step S
18) When waiting for reception, and if there is no reception within a predetermined time (step S19), the above processing is repeated from step S11 and the processing for the next product is performed. Also, in step S15, if it is determined that there is no stock anywhere, the process returns to step S11,
Process the next product.

On the other hand, on the side of the store 20, the check of data reception at the modem M (step S31) and the input check of sales data from the terminal T (step S32) are repeated, and at this step S31, from the head office 10 is repeated. When the data of the product master DB 15 is received, the product master DB 22 of the store 20 is updated according to the received data (step S33).

When the sales data is input in step S32, the product master DB 22 is searched to find out whether the inventory type information of the product is A, B, or C, and the product is a C type product. If (step S34),
Since there is neither work-in-process inventory nor distribution center inventory, it means that the product will not arrive even if an additional order is placed. Therefore, only the sales information is transmitted to the head office 10 (step S35). On the other hand, if the product is A
In the case of the type product or the type B product, the additional order is transmitted to the head office 10 together with the sales data (step S36).

After transmitting these data, the process returns to step S31 to repeat the above process. When the head office 10 receives data from the store 20 (step S19), if the received data is only sales data (step S20), after updating the store inventory DB 14 according to the sales data (step S21), the above steps are performed. Returning to S11, the above process is repeated.

On the other hand, when the received data includes an additional order (step S20), the shipping instruction is transmitted to the distribution center 30 according to the order (step S2).
2). Then, the distribution center inventory DB 13 and the store inventory D
After updating B14 (step S23), the process returns to step S11 to repeat the above process.

As described above, even if an additional replenishment order corresponding to the amount sold from the store 20 is sent to the head office 10, if the product is neither in the distribution center 30 nor in-process,
Since the product cannot be replenished, the store 20 does not make an additional order from the beginning. Also,
The above inventory type information, that is, A type, B type, and C type, is stored in the in-process inventory DB 12 according to the production situation and the situation of the distribution center.
Is updated at the time of arrival of the finished product at the distribution center 30), and it changes every moment. Depending on this, whether or not an additional order can be made at the store 20 is changed. ing.

Therefore, unnecessary extra orders are not issued from the store 20, and accordingly, the occupied time of the line and the head office 1 are reduced.
The processing time in the controller 11 of 0 can be reduced.

In the above embodiment, the head office 10 and the store 2 are
0 and the data exchange with the physical distribution center 30 are performed in real time, but they may be collectively performed at night, for example, after business hours.

Further, in the case of the A type product, there may be a case where all of the distribution center inventory is shipped to the store 20 and the factory waits for completion, but in such a case, Instead of sending a shipping instruction, a shipping reservation instruction may be transmitted from the head office 10 to the distribution center 30.

[0026]

As described in detail above, according to the present invention,
It is possible to provide an additional order device and method capable of performing an additional order of products without waste.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1A is a diagram showing a configuration of an embodiment, and FIG.
FIG. 6 is a diagram for explaining inventory type information.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of the controller of the headquarters.

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining the operation of a store controller.

[Explanation of symbols]

 10 ... Apparel Maker (Headquarters), 11, 21, 31 ... Controller, 12 ... Work in progress DB, 13 ... Logistics center inventory DB, 14 ... Store inventory DB, 15, 22 ... Merchandise master DB, 20 ... Store, 30 ... Logistics Center, 40 ... Public line, M ... Modem, T ... Terminal.

Claims (3)

[Claims] [Claim 1] When automatically adding an order to a product sold to a customer from a store that sells the product to an inventory base, the store stores inventory type information indicating whether the additional order is possible for each product. The stored product master database, input means for inputting that one of the products has been sold to the customer, and whether or not an additional order for the product is possible according to the input by the input means. A judgment means for judging from the stock type information of the master database; and an output control means for transmitting and outputting the additional order data of the product to the stock site only when it is judged by the judging means that the additional order can be made. An additional order device characterized by being provided. [Claim 2] When a store that sells products automatically adds an order to a product sold to a customer to an inventory base, inventory type information indicating whether or not an additional order can be made for each product in the store A product master database that stores the items is stored, and whether or not an additional order for the product can be placed is determined based on the stock type information in the product master database according to the input indicating that one of the products has been sold to the customer. hand,
An additional order method characterized in that additional order data is transmitted and output to an inventory site only when possible. 3. The contents of the inventory type information are the first type, which is when all of the work-in-process inventory, the inventory base inventory, and the store inventory, and the case where there is no work-in-process inventory but the inventory base inventory and the store inventory. The second type and the third type when there is no in-process inventory and inventory base inventory but store inventory
If the stock type information of the product is the information indicating the third type, the additional order data shall not be transmitted and output because the additional order is impossible. The additional order method according to claim 2, wherein: