Order placement and acceptance management system
First Claim
1. An order placement management apparatus, comprising:
- a first receiving unit arranged to receive a predetermined quotation request from a buyer, a transmission unit arranged to transmit the quotation request to a transaction management apparatus;
a second receiving unit arranged to receive quotation results generated by suppliers as a function of the predetermined quotation request; and
a first memory, communicably connected to the second receiving unit, arranged to store the received quotation results as reference prices, wherein the first and second receiving units are communicably connected to the transmission unit.
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Abstract
An order placement and acceptance management system is presented. In an exemplary embodiment, an order acceptance management apparatus (“OAMA”) receives a predetermined quotation request transmitted by an order placement management apparatus. The OAMA generates a quotation result based on data on products and services which is segmented and stored in a database. The order placement management apparatus (“OPMA”) as well as a transaction management apparatus (“TMA”) store the quotation results transmitted by the OAMA in their own respective storage units, and the OPMA can choose amongst the received quotations to place an order. In an exemplary embodiment, other order placement management apparatuses can also use the quotation results and data on completed transactions which are stored in the transaction management apparatus as reference prices in order to estimate purchase prices for future transactions or evaluate quotations received from OAMAs.
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26 Claims
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1. An order placement management apparatus, comprising:
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a first receiving unit arranged to receive a predetermined quotation request from a buyer, a transmission unit arranged to transmit the quotation request to a transaction management apparatus;
a second receiving unit arranged to receive quotation results generated by suppliers as a function of the predetermined quotation request; and
a first memory, communicably connected to the second receiving unit, arranged to store the received quotation results as reference prices, wherein the first and second receiving units are communicably connected to the transmission unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8)
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9. An order acceptance management apparatus, comprising:
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a database in which information on offered objects is segmented and stored as a plurality of data items;
a first receiving unit arranged to receive a predetermined quotation request from a buyer;
a quotation generation unit, communicably connected to the first receiving unit, arranged to retrieve definition files for an object specified by the quotation request and to generate a quotation result based on said definition files, and a transmission unit arranged to transmit the quotation results to a transaction management apparatus. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15)
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16. A transaction management apparatus, comprising:
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a first receiving unit arranged to receive predetermined quotation requests from buyers, a forwarding recipient determination unit communicably connected to the first receiving unit arranged to select suppliers who could respond to the predetermined quotation requests;
a second receiving unit arranged to receive quotation results from the suppliers and transmit them to requesting buyers; and
a first memory arranged to store data regarding suppliers. - View Dependent Claims (17, 18, 19, 20)
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21. An order acceptance and placement management system, comprising:
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one or more order placement management apparatuses;
one or more order acceptance management apparatuses; and
a transaction management apparatus, wherein each of said order placement management apparatuses and said order acceptance management apparatuses are networked through said transaction management apparatus, and wherein an order acceptance management apparatus is arranged to receive a predetermined quotation request determined transmitted by a requesting order placement management apparatus, and to generate a quotation result based on a database in which data on offered objects is stored, and wherein said requesting order placement management apparatus and said transaction management apparatus each accumulate quotation results and purchase history in one or more memories. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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