DEVICE AND PROGRAM FOR CALCULATING PHYSICAL DISTRIBUTION BASE ARRANGEMENT PLAN

• US 20160300188A1
• Filed: 10/02/2013
• Published: 10/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 10/02/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Hitachi, Ltd.
• Inventors: HOSODA, Junko
• Application Number:
  US15/026,846
• Publication Number:
  US 20160300188A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/08 Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0833 Tracking
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/087 Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0875 Itemisation or classification of parts, supplies or services, e.g. bill of materials

Abstract

Provided are a physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating device and program with which physical distribution bases are consolidated at timing that does not cause a loss of a sales chance or an excessive cost. The physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating device and program has a function of: periodically processing actual logistics performance information to calculate changes in a monitoring item; calculating, when the changes have an increasing or decreasing trend, a physical distribution base arrangement plan by changing a parameter that is controllable with respect to a predicted future transport quantity; comparing the calculated physical distribution base arrangement plan and the current physical distribution base arrangement in profit; and, when the profit of the calculated plan is greater, displaying a message to the effect that the base arrangement needs to be revised.

Claims

1. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating device configured to revise a physical distribution base arrangement plan, comprising:

a storing unit configured to store stock arrival processing capability information, stock arrival information, actual performance information about transportation from a sender base to a shipment arrival base, transport cost information about transportation from a sender base to a shipment arrival base, logistics changing cost information, and monitoring item information, the stock arrival processing capability information comprising a processing capability of each warehouse, the stock arrival information comprising actual stock arrival performance of each warehouse, the logistics changing cost information comprising a cost that is incurred by changing a business operation of a current base arrangement, the monitoring item information comprising items that are used to determine whether or not a base arrangement needs to be revised; and

a base arrangement plan calculating unit configured to periodically calculate changes in monitoring items of the monitoring item information based on the stock arrival processing capability information, the stock arrival information, and the actual performance information, which are stored in the storing unit, and, when an increasing trend or a decreasing trend of the calculated changes is detected in one of the monitoring items, change a parameter that influences the one of the monitoring items, and calculate a new base arrangement plan based on the transport cost information and the logistics changing cost information.

2. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating device according to claim 1, wherein the base arrangement plan calculating unit is configured to calculate the changes in the monitoring items of the monitoring item information by calculating time-series changes of the monitoring items, or by calculating for each of the monitoring items a difference between a value of the each of the monitoring items and an objective value of the each of the monitoring items.

3. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating device according to claim 1, wherein the increasing trend or the decreasing trend of the changes in one of the monitoring items is detected when the changes exceed a given reference.

4. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating device according to claim 1, wherein, when a result of a comparison between the calculated new base arrangement plan and the current base arrangement plan reaches a given reference, the base arrangement plan calculating unit is configured to determine that the new base arrangement plan needs to be presented to a user, and output the new base arrangement plan for display.

5. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating device according to claim 4, wherein the given reference comprises a reference of a financial index comprising sales, a cost, or a profit.

6. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating device according to claim 4, wherein the base arrangement plan calculating unit is configured to determine whether or not the new base arrangement plan needs to be presented to the user by comparing a predicted value of the new base arrangement plan to a pre-defined objective value, in addition to comparing the new base arrangement plan to the current base arrangement plan.

7. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating device according to claim 1, wherein the parameter that influences the one of the monitoring items comprises a sender base and a transportation mode in the transport cost information, or a processing capability in the stock arrival processing capability information.

8. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program for revising a physical distribution base arrangement plan by causing a computer to execute:

with use of stock arrival processing capability information, stock arrival information, actual performance information about transportation from a sender base to a shipment arrival base, transport cost information about transportation from a sender base to a shipment arrival base, logistics changing cost information, and monitoring item information, which are stored on the computer, the stock arrival processing capability information comprising a processing capability of each warehouse, the stock arrival information comprising actual stock arrival performance of each warehouse, the logistics changing cost information comprising a cost that is incurred by changing a business operation of a current base arrangement, the monitoring item information comprising items that are used to determine whether or not a base arrangement needs to be revised,

processing of periodically calculating changes in monitoring items of the monitoring item information based on the stock arrival processing capability information, the stock arrival information, and the actual performance information; and

when an increasing trend or a decreasing trend of the calculated changes is detected in one of the monitoring items, processing of changing a parameter that influences the one of the monitoring items, and calculating a new base arrangement plan based on the transport cost information and the logistics changing cost information.

9. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program according to claim 8, wherein the physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program causes the computer to execute processing of calculating the changes in the monitoring items of the monitoring item information by calculating time-series changes of the monitoring items, or by calculating for each of the monitoring items a difference between a value of the each of the monitoring items and an objective value of the each of the monitoring items.

10. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program according to claim 8, wherein the increasing trend or the decreasing trend of the changes in one of the monitoring items is detected when the changes exceed a given reference.

11. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program according to claim 8, wherein the physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program causes the computer to execute processing of, when a result of a comparison between the calculated new base arrangement plan and the current base arrangement plan reaches a given reference, determining that the new base arrangement plan needs to be presented to a user, and outputting the new base arrangement plan for display.

12. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program according to claim 11, wherein the given reference comprises a reference of a financial index comprising sales, a cost, or a profit.

13. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program according to claim 11, wherein the physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program causes the computer to execute processing of determining whether or not the new base arrangement plan needs to be presented to the user by comparing a predicted value of the new base arrangement plan to a pre-defined objective value, in addition to comparing the new base arrangement plan to the current base arrangement plan.

14. A physical distribution base arrangement plan calculating program according to claim 8, wherein the parameter that influences the one of the monitoring items comprises a sender base and a transportation mode in the transport cost information, or a processing capability in the stock arrival processing capability information.