Method and system for creating a purchase suggesting list retailers

• US 20060149639A1
• Filed: 03/31/2005
• Published: 07/06/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 12/31/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Original Assignee: Inventec Corporation
• Inventors: Lee, Chia-Chun, Liu, Xiao-Ling, Liu, Win-Harn, Song, Jeff
• Application Number:
  US11/096,947
• Publication Number:
  US 20060149639A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/26
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0637 Approvals

Abstract

A system for generating a purchase suggestion list is proposed, comprising: a supplier enterprise resource planning (ERP) system that regularly inputs data of past orders from each of its retail customers into the order database, a retailer computer system regularly that inputs the quantity of each inventory into the inventory database, a data input module for manually inputting the safety margin and purchasing time period, a data storage module to read the order and inventory information, a calculating module for calculating the suggested quantity of each product for purchase, which is also manually adjustable by the inventory management staff, to create a purchase suggesting list, and a data transfer module that transfers this purchase suggestion list to the retailer to make final modifications or grant approval so that a final order can be made under the mutual agreement based on the suggestion purchase list. The present invention also proposes a method for generating a purchase suggestion list.

Claims

1. A system for creating a purchase suggestion list, established through a connection between a supplier'"'"'s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and one or more retailers'"'"' computer systems via a network system, the system comprising:

an order database, for storing order related data including at least names and quantity of products to be ordered;

a purchase suggestion database, for storing purchase suggestion data including at least a safety margin and a purchasing time period;

a data input module, for inputting the safety margin and the purchasing time period into the purchase suggestion database;

an inventory database, for storing inventory related data including at least names and quantity of products to be ordered;

a calculating module for reading order related data stored in the order database including the names and quantity of the product to be ordered from the order database, the value of the safety margin and the purchasing time period from the purchase suggestion database, and the quantity of inventory from the inventory database, in order to calculate a suggested purchase quantity of each product for each retailer; and

a data transfer module, for transferring the suggested quantity of each product to the corresponding retailer computer system.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the order database is composed of order data proposed by each retailer, input through the supplier enterprise resource planning (ERP) system into the order database.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the inventory database is composed of the quantity of each inventory in each warehouse for each retailer, input through the retailer computer system.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the suggested quantity of each product is obtained by adding up all the purchase quantity within the predetermined time period, then dividing the sum of the purchase quantity by the number of days in the predetermined time period, and then multiplying by the purchase time period and the safety margin, followed by subtracting the quantity of each inventory in the inventory database, thereby obtaining a final suggested quantity for each product.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the suggested quantity of each product can be stored in the purchase suggestion database.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the retailer computer system can make modifications to the suggested quantity of each product for purchase.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the retailer computer system can approve the suggested quantity of each product for purchase and create a final order.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the data transfer module farther comprises transferring modified suggested quantity of each product for purchase back to the supplier'"'"'s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the supplier enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can make further modifications to the suggested quantity of each product for purchase already modified by the retailers computer system.

11. The purchase suggestion system of claim 9, wherein the supplier enterprise resource retailer'"'"'s computer system can approve the suggested quantity of each product for purchase modified by the retailer'"'"'s computer system and create a final order.

2. (canceled)

12. A method of creating the purchase suggestion list, established through a connection between a supplier'"'"'s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and one or more retailers'"'"' computer systems via a network system, comprising the steps of:

storing order related data including at least the name and quantity of the product to be ordered into an order database;

storing inventory related data including at least the name and quantity of the product to be ordered into an inventory database;

storing purchase suggestion data including at least values of a safety margin and a purchasing time period into a purchase suggestion database;

reading order related data, including the name and quantity of the product to be ordered from the order database, the value of the safety margin and the purchasing time period from the purchase suggestion database, and the quantity of inventory from the inventory database, in order to calculate a suggested quantity of each product for purchase for each retailer;

storing the suggested quantity of each product in the purchase suggestion database; and

transferring the suggested quantity of each product to the corresponding retailer'"'"'s computer system.

13. The method of claim 12, wherein the order related data is input through the supplier'"'"'s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

14. The method of claim 12, wherein the inventory related data is input through the retailer'"'"'s computer system.

15. The method of claim 12, wherein the suggested quantity of each product is obtained by adding up all purchase quantity within a predetermined time period, then dividing the sum of purchase quantity by the number of days in the predetermined time period, then multiplying by the purchase time period and the safety margin, and then subtracting the quantity of each inventory in the inventory database, thereby obtaining a final suggested quantity for each product.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising making modifications to the suggested quantity of each product for purchase through the retailer'"'"'s computer system.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising an approval cycle for the suggested quantity of each product for purchase to create a final order through the retailer'"'"'s computer system.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising the transfer of the modified suggested quantity of each product of purchase back to the supplier'"'"'s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

20. The method of claim 12, further comprising making further modifications to the suggested quantity of each product for purchase modified by the retailer computer system through the supplier'"'"'s enterprise planning (ERP) system.

21. The method of claim 12, further comprising an approval of the suggested quantity of each product of purchase to create a final order through the retailer'"'"'s computer system.

16. (canceled)

22. A system for creating a purchase suggestion list, established through a connection between a supplier'"'"'s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and one or more retailers'"'"' computer systems via a network system, the system comprising:

an order database, for storing order related data including at least names and quantity of products to be ordered;

a purchase suggestion database, for storing purchase suggestion data including at least a safety margin and a purchasing time period;

an inventory database, for storing inventory related data including at least names and quantity of products to be ordered;

a calculating module for reading order related data stored in the order database including the names and quantity of the product to be ordered from the order database, the value of the safety margin and the purchasing time period from the purchase suggestion database, and the quantity of inventory from the inventory database, in order to calculate a suggested purchase quantity of each product for each retailer; and

a data transfer module, for transferring the suggested quantity of each product to the corresponding retailer computer system and storing the suggested quantity of each product in the purchase suggestion database.

23. The system of claim 22, further comprising a data input module for inputting the safety margin and the purchasing time period into the purchase suggestion database.

24. The system of claim 22, wherein the order database is composed of order data proposed by each retailer, input through the supplier enterprise resource planning (ERP) system into the order database.

25. The system of claim 22, wherein the inventory database is composed of the quantity of each inventory in each warehouse for each retailer, input through the retailer computer system.

26. The system of claim 22, wherein the suggested quantity of each product is obtained by adding up all the purchase quantity within the predetermined time period, then dividing the sum of the purchase quantity by the number of days in the predetermined time period, and then multiplying by the purchase time period and the safety margin, followed by subtracting the quantity of each inventory in the inventory database, thereby obtaining a final suggested quantity for each product.

27. The system of claim 22, wherein the retailer computer system can make modifications to the suggested quantity of each product for purchase.

28. The system of claim 22, wherein the retailer computer system can approve the suggested quantity of each product for purchase and create a final order.

29. The system of claim 22, wherein the data transfer module further comprises transferring modified suggested quantity of each product for purchase back to the supplier'"'"'s enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.

30. The system of claim 29, wherein the supplier enterprise resource planning (ERP) system can make further modifications to the suggested quantity of each product for purchase already modified by the retailer'"'"'s computer system.

31. The purchase suggestion system of claim 29, wherein the supplier enterprise resource retailer'"'"'s computer system can approve the suggested quantity of each product for purchase modified by the retailer'"'"'s computer system and create a final order.