Parts stock amount management device

• US 20060036498A1
• Filed: 09/19/2003
• Published: 02/16/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Original Assignee: Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha (Honda Motor Company)
• Inventors: Tanaka, Hidenobu, Iida, Koichi, Imagawa, Taro, Otsubo, Motokazu, Jodoi, Takafumi
• Application Number:
  US10/528,290
• Publication Number:
  US 20060036498A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/15
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/41865 characterised by job scheduling, process planning, material flow
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0637 Strategic management or analysis, e.g. setting a goal or target of an organisation; Planning actions based on goals; Analysis or evaluation of effectiveness of goals
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/12 Hotels or restaurants
• CPC Class Codes: Y02P 90/02 Total factory control, e.g. smart factories, flexible manufacturing systems [FMS] or integrated manufacturing systems [IMS]

Abstract

Distribution of the parts (parts A, parts B), including shipment by a part supplier, delivery to the part orderer to be used in product manufacturing, is divided into stages in time-sequence (under transportation or at a location including the parking lot, warehouse, temporary storage facility, line side, etc.) and each stage is inputted with incoming and outgoing quantity information of the part orderer to compute the quantity of inventory from a difference therebetween. Information on the computed quantity of inventory is sent through terminal computers to a host computer such that it consolidates the sent information to be centralized and manages at a lump. Further, among of the quantities of inventory at divided stages, the quantity of inventory computed based on the incoming and outgoing quantity information of the part orderer is recognized as the actual quantity of inventory. With this, it becomes possible to provide a part inventory management system that manages the quantity of inventory in time-sequence and can perform inventory management appropriately regardless of differences in part distribution routes.

Claims

1. A system for managing a quantity of inventory of parts constituting a product, in which distribution of the parts, including shipment by a part supplier, delivery to an orderer of the parts to be used in manufacturing the product, is divided into a plurality of stages in time-sequence, comprising:

a. part order quantity computing means for computing a part order quantity to be directed to the part supplier, by subtracting a subject-to-subtraction quantity of inventory, from a required quantity of the parts computed based on a production schedule;

b. first inventory quantity computing means for inputting incoming quantity information and outgoing quantity information of the orderer of the parts and for computing a tentative quantity of inventory of the parts at one of the stages from a difference between the incoming quantity information and the outgoing information;

c. second inventory quantity computing means for inputting the incoming quantity information and the outgoing quantity information of the orderer of the parts and for computing actual quantities of inventory of the parts at the other stages from the difference between the incoming quantity information and the outgoing information;

d. inventory information sending means for sending information on the tentative quantity of inventory of the parts at the one of the stages and the actual quantities of inventory of the parts at the other stages via transmitting means; and

e. inventory managing means for consolidating the sent inventory information to be centralized such that the inventory information is managed at a lump;

wherein the inventory managing means outputs the actual quantity of inventory of the parts computed by the second inventory quantity computing means to the part order quantity computing means as the subject-to-subtraction quantity of inventory in computing the part order quantity.