Daily delivered articles order optimization support system, method, and storage medium therefor
AssigneeFujitsu Limited
InventorsMinami Watanabe, Tetsuya Shindo, Ikuko Fukutani
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Abstract
An estimated shortfall by article and time period is first computed. Then, based on the estimated shortfall, etc., an expected profit of each of the first through m-th ordered pieces of each article is computed, and sorted in order from the highest expected profit. Based on the sorting result, for example, an order pattern with which the highest profit can be expected in the order budget is presented. The above mentioned process can be separately performed between weekdays and holidays if the sales characteristics are different between them.
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A daily delivered articles order optimization support system, comprising:
- an expected-profit-sequenced order priority generation unit computing an expected profit of each piece of article up to a specified number for each article based on sales result data in a latest period of the past, and sorting articles in order from a highest expected profit in computation results of all articles;
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- an optimum order pattern computation unit computing an optimum order pattern based on a process result of said expected-profit-sequenced order priority generation unit.
A daily delivered articles order optimization support system, comprising:
- a sales share analysis unit obtaining a sales share by time period based on sales result data in a latest period of the past;
- an estimated shortfall computation unit computing an estimated shortfall by time period based on the sales share by time period, the sales result data in the latest period of the past, a delivery volume in each delivery, and a set delivery/discard time of each delivery;
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- a potentiality computation unit computing and displaying potentiality of an article based on the estimated shortfall by time period.
A daily delivered articles order optimization support method, comprising:
- computing an expected profit of each piece of article up to a specified number for each article based on sales result data in a latest period of the past;
- sorting articles in order from a highest expected profit in the computation results of all articles;
- and
- computing an optimum order pattern based on the sorting result.
A daily delivered articles order optimization support method comprising:
- obtaining a sales share by time period based on sales result data in a latest period of the past;
- computing an estimated shortfall by time period based on the sales share by time period, the sales result data in the latest period of the past, a delivery volume in each delivery, and a set delivery/discard time of each delivery;
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- computing and displaying potentiality of an article based on the estimated shortfall by time period.
A computer-readable storage medium storing a program used to direct a computer to perform the functions of:
- computing an expected profit of each piece of article up to a specified number for each article based on sales result data in a latest period of the past;
- sorting articles in order from a highest expected profit in the computation results of all articles;
- and
- computing an optimum order pattern based on the sorting result.
A computer-readable storage medium storing a program used to direct a computer to perform the functions of:
- obtaining a sales share by time period based on sales result data in a latest period of the past;
- computing an estimated shortfall by time period based on the sales share by time period, the sales result data in the latest period of the past, a delivery volume in each delivery, and a set delivery/discard time of each delivery;
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- computing and displaying potentiality of an article based on the estimated shortfall by time period.
A computer data signal embodied in a carrier wave storing a computer program used to direct a computer to perform the functions of:
- computing an expected profit of each piece of article up to a specified number for each article based on sales result data in a latest period of the past;
- sorting articles in order from a highest expected profit in the computation results of all articles;
- and
- computing an optimum order pattern based on the sorting result.
A daily delivered articles order optimization support system, comprising:
- an expected-profit-sequenced order priority generation means for computing an expected profit of each piece of article up to a specified number for each article based on sales result data in a latest period of the past, and sorting articles in order from a highest expected profit in computation results of all articles;
- and
- an optimum order pattern computation means for computing an optimum order pattern based on a process result of said expected-profit-sequenced order priority generation means.
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