Product shipping system
First Claim
1. A product shipping system comprising:
- a terminal equipment on the side of a purchaser, for transmitting designation information designating the order in which respective shipping products are to be mounted on a delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets, a terminal equipment on the side of a supplier, connected to the terminal equipment on the side of the purchaser via a communications line, for receiving the designation information, capable of converting the designation information as received into partition information indicating partitions identifiable by the kind of the respective shipping products by execution of a conversion program;
a printer capable of printing out the partition information after conversion by operating the terminal equipment on the side of the supplier;
a flat car or plural flat cars for transfer of the respective delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets that display(s) the partition information as printed by the printer, capable of mounting respective products in as-partitioned state thereon; and
a plurality of product pallets provided with a display identifiable by the kind of the respective shipping products, on which the respective shipping products are mounted by the kind thereof on the supplier'"'"'s side;
wherein a worker can select respective products mounted on the respective product pallets provided with the display on the basis of the partition information as displayed on the delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets loaded on the respective flat car or plural flat cars, and can mount the respective products in as-partitioned state on the respective delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets.
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Abstract
By use of a terminal equipment on the side of a purchaser, designation information designating the order in which respective shipping products are to be mounted on a delivery pallet, is transmitted to a terminal equipment on the side of a supplier via a communications line. Upon receiving the designation information, the terminal equipment on the side of the supplier converts the designation information as received into colored partition information by the kind of the respective shipping products, and fixes a form on which the colored partition information after the conversion is color-printed by a color printer to a predetermined spot of the delivery pallet.
The worker refers to the form at the time of loading products and takes out a product mounted on the respective product pallets in the same color as that corresponding to predetermined partitions of the delivery pallet, mounting the respective products in the predetermined partitions of the delivery pallet on top of the respective flat car or plural flat cars. Thus, with the product shipping system according to the invention, it is possible to minimize the risk of the worker making a mistake in the order of mounting products, and to shorten time required for mounting the products in the delivery pallet(s) as partitioned according to the order of mounting, thereby speeding up shipment of the products.
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1. A product shipping system comprising:
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a terminal equipment on the side of a purchaser, for transmitting designation information designating the order in which respective shipping products are to be mounted on a delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets, a terminal equipment on the side of a supplier, connected to the terminal equipment on the side of the purchaser via a communications line, for receiving the designation information, capable of converting the designation information as received into partition information indicating partitions identifiable by the kind of the respective shipping products by execution of a conversion program;
a printer capable of printing out the partition information after conversion by operating the terminal equipment on the side of the supplier;
a flat car or plural flat cars for transfer of the respective delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets that display(s) the partition information as printed by the printer, capable of mounting respective products in as-partitioned state thereon; and
a plurality of product pallets provided with a display identifiable by the kind of the respective shipping products, on which the respective shipping products are mounted by the kind thereof on the supplier'"'"'s side;
wherein a worker can select respective products mounted on the respective product pallets provided with the display on the basis of the partition information as displayed on the delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets loaded on the respective flat car or plural flat cars, and can mount the respective products in as-partitioned state on the respective delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. Method for shipping products comprising the following steps:
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transmitting designation information by a purchaser designating the order, in which respective shipping products are to be mounted on at least one delivery pallet, receiving said designation information by a supplier, converting the designation information as received by said supplier into partition information, indicating partitions identifiable by the kind of the respective shipping products, by means of a conversion program, printing out the partition information after conversion, displaying the partition information as printed at said delivery pallet(s), capable of mounting respective products in as-partitioned state thereon, displaying an identification by the kind of the respective shipping products or a plurality of product pallets on which the respective shipping products are mounted by the kind thereof on the supplier'"'"'s side, selecting respective products mounted on the respective product pallets provided with the display on the basis of the partition information as displayed on the at least one delivery pallet and mounting the respective product in as-partitioned state on the respective delivery pallet or plural delivery pallets.
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