Administration system for shipment of parts

Abstract

The present invention provides a parts-shipping administration system for improving efficiency in shipping operations. The system comprises a computer for searching a parts-order database based on shipping destinations to prepare respective shipping instructions for each of the shipping destinations in order to ship the parts, a hand-held terminal device comprising a display screen for displaying the shipping instructions and a barcode reader connected to the hand-held terminal device. The system further comprises a printer for printing, based on one of the shipping instructions, a barcode representing a serial number or another unique number on each of labels to be attached to a plurality of cartons which are used for packing the parts and a crate for containing those cartons. The hand-held terminal device comprises a memory in which the numbers for the cartons are stored in association with the parts in response to reading the labels attached to the cartons by use of the barcode reader when the parts displayed in the screen of the hand-held terminal device are packed into the cartons.

Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.