COMPUTER SYSTEM FOR A COMMODITIES DELIVERY SYSTEM

• US 20080154683A1
• Filed: 11/30/2007
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: Mizuno, Yoshihiro, Kawada, Yohei, Matsui, Yusuke
• Application Number:
  US11/947,989
• Publication Number:
  US 20080154683A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/8
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/063 Operations research, analysis or management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06316 Sequencing of tasks or work
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/40 Business processes related to the transportation industry shipping G06Q10/083

Abstract

This invention provides a computer system capable of jointly delivering commodities not included in delivery plan information even after the delivery plan information is generated, and each base receives the generated delivery plan information, or a transport unit has made the round of each base. The computer system for realizing a delivery system which controls the transport unit to make the round of bases, thereby delivering commodities to the bases, includes a shipping base terminal, a reception base terminal, a transport terminal, and an information management computer, and the information management computer refers to attribute information of the commodities requested to be delivered to select commodities to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered from the commodities planned to be delivered, and corrects the delivery plan information.

Claims

1. A computer system for a delivery system which controls transport means to make the round of bases, thereby delivering commodities to the bases, the computer system comprising:

a shipping base terminal installed in a base for shipping the commodities;

a reception base terminal installed in a base for receiving the commodities;

a transport terminal installed in the transport means; and

an information management computer for managing information regarding the commodities to be delivered,

wherein the computer system stores attribute information of the commodities to be delivered,

wherein the information management computer is configured to;

store delivery plan information including a plan of delivering the commodities to the reception bases by the transport means;

refer to the delivery plan information to judge whether the commodities requested to be delivered are permitted to be loaded on the transport means, upon reception, from the shipping base terminal, of shipping schedule information for requesting delivery of the commodities shipped from the shipping base;

refer to attribute information of the commodities requested to be delivered to select commodities to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered from the commodities planned to be delivered, upon judgment that the commodities requested to be delivered are inhibited to be loaded on the transport means;

correct the delivery plan information to replace the selected commodities with the commodities requested to be delivered; and

transmit the corrected delivery plan information to the transport terminal, the shipping base terminal, and the reception base terminal, and

wherein the transport terminal, the shipping base terminal, and the reception base terminal display the delivery plan information transmitted by the information management computer.

2. The computer system according to claim 1,

wherein the attribute information of the commodities to be delivered includes a priority representing at least one of necessity and urgency of the commodities to be delivered, and

wherein the information management computer is further configured to:

refer to a priority of the commodities requested to be delivered and a priority of the commodities planned to be delivered;

select, from the commodities planned to be delivered, commodities having a priority lower than the priority of the commodities requested to be delivered and planned to be delivered as commodities to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered; and

correct the delivery plan information to replace the selected commodities with the commodities requested to be delivered.

3. The computer system according to claim 1,

wherein a tag holding identification information for uniquely identifying the commodities are attached to each of the commodities to be delivered,

wherein the shipping base terminal and the reception base terminal each comprises a reading unit for reading the identification information stored in the tags,

wherein the shipping base terminal and the reception base terminal read the identification information held in the tags attached to the commodities to be delivered, and transmit the read identification information to the information management computer, and

wherein the information management computer is further configured to:

store a received identification information upon reception of the read identification information;

specify a plan yet to be delivered among plans included in the delivery plan information based on the stored identification information; and

correct the specified plan.

4. The computer system according to claim 1,

wherein the computer system stores, when the commodities to be delivered are packed in transport packages, attribute information of the transport packages for packing the commodities to be delivered, and

wherein the information management computer is further configured to:

refer to the attribute information of the transport packages for packing the commodities planned to be delivered and the attribute information of the commodities requested to be delivered select, among the transport packages for packing the commodities planned to be delivered, a transport package to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered; and

correct the delivery plan information to replace the selected transport package with the commodities requested to be delivered.

5. The computer system according to claim 1, wherein the information management computer is further configured to:

store history of correcting the delivery plan information for each base upon correction of the delivery plan information;

calculate the number of correcting times of correcting the delivery plan information and the number of selecting times of selecting commodities to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered for each base, based on the stored history of correcting the delivery plan information;

calculate a first value by adding a preset numerical value added each time the delivery plan information is corrected to the number of correcting times;

calculate a second value based on the preset numerical value corresponding to the number of selecting times; and

calculate points for each base by adding together the calculated first value and the calculated second value.

6. An information management method executed by a computer system for a delivery system which controls transport means to make the round of bases, thereby delivering commodities to the bases,

the computer system having a shipping base terminal installed in a base for shipping the commodities, a reception base terminal installed in a base for receiving the commodities, a transport terminal installed in the transport means, and an information management computer for managing information regarding the commodities to be delivered,

the computer system storing attribute information of the commodities to be delivered,

the information management method comprising the steps of:

storing, by the information management computer, delivery plan information including a plan of delivering the commodities to the bases by the transport means;

referring, by the information management computer, to the delivery plan information to judge whether the commodities requested to be delivered are permitted to be loaded on the transport means, upon reception, from the shipping base terminal, of shipping schedule information for requesting delivery of the commodities shipped from the base;

referring, by the information management computer, to attribute information of the commodities requested to be delivered to select commodities to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered from the commodities planned to be delivered, upon judgment that the commodities requested to be delivered are inhibited to be loaded on the transport means;

correcting, by the information management computer, the delivery plan information to replace the selected commodities with the commodities requested to be delivered;

transmitting, by the information management computer, the corrected delivery plan information to the transport terminal, the shipping base terminal, and the reception base terminal; and

displaying, by the transport terminal, the shipping base terminal, and the reception base terminal, the transmitted delivery plan information.

7. The information management method according to claim 6,

wherein the attribute information of the commodities to be delivered includes a priority representing at least one of necessity and urgency of the commodities to be delivered, and

wherein the information management method further comprises the steps of:

referring to a priority of the commodities requested to be delivered and a priority of the commodities planned to be delivered;

selecting, from the commodities planned to be delivered, commodities having a priority lower than the priority of the commodities requested to be delivered and planned to be delivered as commodities to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered; and

correcting the delivery plan information to replace the selected commodities with the commodities requested to be delivered.

8. The information management method according to claim 6,

wherein a tag holding identification information for uniquely identifying the commodities are attached to each of the commodities to be delivered,

wherein the shipping base terminal and the reception base terminal each comprises a reading unit for reading the identification information stored in the tags,

wherein the shipping base terminal and the reception base terminal read the identification information held in the tags attached to the commodities to be delivered, and transmit the read identification information to the information management computer, and

wherein the information management method further comprises the steps of:

storing the received identification information upon reception of the read identification information;

specifying a plan yet to be delivered among plans included in the delivery plan information based on the stored identification information; and

correcting the specified plan.

9. The information management method according to claim 6,

wherein the computer system stores, when the commodities to be delivered are packed in transport packages, attribute information of the transport packages for packing the commodities to be delivered, and

wherein the information management method further comprises:

referring to the attribute information of the transport packages for packing the commodities planned to be delivered and the attribute information of the commodities requested to be delivered selecting, among the transport packages for packing the commodities planned to be delivered, a transport package to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered; and

correcting the delivery plan information to replace the selected transport package with the commodities requested to be delivered.

10. The information management method according to claim 6, further comprising:

storing history of correcting the delivery plan information for each base upon correction of the delivery plan information;

calculating the number of correcting times of correcting the delivery plan information and the number of selecting times of selecting commodities to replace with the commodities requested to be delivered for each base, based on the stored history of correcting the delivery plan information;

calculating a first value by adding a preset numerical value added each time the delivery plan information is corrected to the number of correcting times;

calculating a second value based on the preset numerical value corresponding to the number of correcting times; and

calculating points for each base by adding together the calculated first value and the calculated second value.