Ordered product delivery date management system for management product or part production slot exchange

• US 6,711,449 B1
• Filed: 06/13/2000
• Issued: 03/23/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/1998
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Mitsubishi Denki Kabushiki Kaisha (Mitsubishi Electric Corporation), Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Toyota Jidosha Kabushiki Kaisha (Toyota Motor Corporation)
• Inventors: Miyahara, Shunji, Ishizaki, Akira
• Primary Examiner(s): Picard, Leo
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHECHTMAN, SEAN P
• Application Number:
  US09/592,844
• Time in Patent Office: 1,379 Days
• Field of Search: 700/97, 700/99, 700/100-107, 700/117, 700/121, 705/7, 705/8, 705/29
• US Class Current: 700/100
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/1093 Calendar-based scheduling for persons or groups

Abstract

When content of a production slot database indicates that there is no free production slot which can be allocated to an ordered vehicle designated in received order information, a production management section exchanges a production slot assigned to a potential vehicle so that the ordered vehicle can be delivered by the desired date. When no potential vehicle slot is available, a production slot for an ordered vehicle can be exchanged with that for another ordered vehicle for which a production slot has been secured, and the production slot date of the other vehicle is postponed to another day before the desired delivery date. When a production slot is secured before the desired delivery date but the production slot for a part required for producing the ordered vehicle cannot be secured, management of exchange is performed for the part according to a parts production slot database to enable delivery of as many vehicles by the delivery dates desired by customers as possible.

Claims

1. An ordered product delivery date management system which allocates production slots for the products producible in each operation day, allocates a production slot to an ordered product designated in received order information, and determines the operation day of the allocated production slot as a deliverable date, comprising:

a production slot database which stores assignment states of respective production slots;

a parts production slot database which stores assignment states of the production slot for each part wherein production slots for each part producible in an operation day are allocated for the respective parts;

a parts information master database which stores data on an ordered product, production of which requires a pertinent part, in correspondence with the respective part;

an ordered product specification information database which stores information concerning a part required for producing the ordered product in correspondence with identification information of the ordered product; and

a production management processing means which secures a production slot for the ordered product in time for the desired delivery date designated in the order information based on the contents of the production slot database, and which stores identification information of the secured ordered product and the desired delivery date in correspondence with identification information of the secured production slot;

wherein,

when no unassigned production slot is available prior to the desired delivery date designated in the order information, and when a production slot is already secured by another ordered product up to the designated desired delivery date, and when an operation day of the secured production slot secured by said other ordered product is earlier than the desired delivery date of the ordered product and there is another newly securable production slot for said other ordered product before or on the same date of the desired delivery date of said other ordered product, the production management processing means performs management of exchange for the production slot of the other ordered product so as to allocate the production slot secured for the other ordered product to the ordered product designated in the order information; and

wherein,

when the production slot for producing the ordered product can be secured before the desired delivery date designated in the order information, but a production slot for the part cannot be secured to enable the delivery by the desired delivery date, the production management processing means performs management of exchange of the production slot of another part so as to allocate the production slot for said other part to the part required for producing the ordered product based on the contents of the parts production slot database.

2. The ordered product delivery date management system according to claim 1, wherein, when there exist a plurality of products for which exchangeable production slots are available for the ordered product designated in the order information, the production management processing means sends information concerning the products for which exchangeable production slots are secured to an order information sending side so as to allow the selection of a product to be exchanged.

3. An ordered product delivery date management system which allocates production slots for the products producible in each operation day, allocates a production slot to an ordered product designated in received order information, and determines the operation day of the allocated production slot as a deliverable date, comprising:

a production slot database which stores assignment states of respective production slots; and

a production management processing means which secures a production slot for the ordered product in time for the desired delivery date designated in the order information based on the contents of the production slot database, and which stores identification information of the secured ordered product and the desired delivery date in correspondence with identification information of the secured production slot;

wherein,

when no unassigned production slot is available prior to the desired delivery date designated in the order information, and when a production slot is already secured by another ordered product up to the designated desired delivery date, and when an operation day of the secured production slot secured by said other ordered product is earlier than the desired delivery date of the ordered product and there is another newly securable production slot for said other ordered product before or on the same date of the desired delivery date of said other ordered product, the production management processing means exchanges the production slot secured for the other ordered product so as to allocate the production slot for said other ordered product to the ordered product for use in producing the ordered product, said other ordered product having a lower priority than the ordered product.

4. The ordered product delivery date management system according to claim 3, wherein, when there exist a plurality of products for which exchangeable production slots are available for the ordered product designated in the order information, the production management processing means sends information concerning the products for which exchangeable production slots are secured to an order information sending side so as to allow the selection of a product to be exchanged.