US 2003/0204451 A1Published application

System and method for exchanging supply-own-inventory related information between manufacturer and supplier

AssigneeInventec Corporation

InventorsTe-Mei Chu, Shu-Mei Chien, Yun-Chi Lee, Kuan-I Wu

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Abstract

A system and method is proposed for exchanging SOI (Supply Own Inventory) related information between a manufacturer and a supplier, allowing both the manufacturer and the supplier to learn all SOI-related information, including the supplier's extra amount of material stocked at the manufacturer's site, the amount of material taken by the manufacturer to supply its own inventory, and the amount of the supplier's assured resupply to the manufacturer's inventory stock during a specific future period, etc., so as to allow both the supplier and the manufacturer to perform related management tasks more efficiently. The proposed system and method is characterized by the use of a server to serve up an online inventory management system including an SOI-status inquiry Web page and an SOI-status display Web page, which can be accessed via a network system, such as extranet or Internet, by both the manufacturer and the supplier.

Claims12

Dependent claims

A method for exchanging SOI-related information between a manufacturer and a supplier in an online manner via a network system linked to a first-party workstation on the supplier side and a second-party workstation on the manufacturer side;

the method comprising:
serving up an SOI-status inquiry Web page via the network system to the second-party workstation for the manufacturer to post SOI-related information on the SOI-status inquiry Web page;
serving up the SOI-status inquiry Web page via the network system to the first-party workstation for the supplier to learn the current status information about the supplier's extra amount of material stocked at the manufacturer's site;
in the event that the manufacturer performs an SOI action on the supplier's extra amount of material stocked at the manufacturer's site,, serving up the SOI-status display Web page to the manufacturer, allowing the manufacturer to post SOI-related information on the SOI-status display Web page, so that the supplier can learn the SOI-related information by linking the first-party workstation via the network system to the SOI-status display Web page in the inventory management system on the server;
and in addition, the supplier can utilize the SOI-status display Web page to compute for the manufacturer's demand during a specific future period based on the geographic distance between the supplier and the manufacturer and/or the manufacturer's expected rate of material input so as to obtain the information about the amount of the supplier's assured resupply to the manufacturers inventory stock during a specific future period.

2 more elements

A system for exchanging SOI-related information between a manufacturer and a supplier, which comprises:

(a) a network system;
(b) a server, which is linked to the network system, and which is used to serve up an online inventory management system including a SOI-status inquiry Web page and a SOI-status display Web page;
(c) at least one first-party workstation, which is installed on the supplier side, and which is linkable via the network system to the inventory management system on the server;
and
(d) at least one second-party workstation, which is installed on the manufacturer side, and which is linkable via the network system to the inventory management system on the server;
wherein
the server is capable of serving the SOI-status inquiry Web page to either the first-party workstation or the second-party workstation to allow either the supplier or the manufacturer to learn the current status information about the supplier's extra amount of material stocked at the manufacturer's site;
and wherein
in the event that the manufacturer performs an SOI action on the supplier's extra amount of material stocked at the manufacturer's site, the server is capable of serving up the SOI-status display Web page to the manufacturer, allowing the ma nufacturer to post the SOI-related information on the SOI-status display Web page, so that the supplier can learn the SOI-related information by linking the first-party workstation via the network system to the SOI-status display Web page in the inventory management system on the server;
and in addition, the supplier can utilize the SOI-status display Web page to compute for the manufacturer's demand during a specific future period based on the geographic distance between the supplier and the manufacturer and/or the manufacturer's expected rate of material input so as to obtain the information about the amount of the supplier's assured resupply to the manufacturer's inventory stock during a specific future period.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 10/227,479Filed 26 Aug 2002
Priority: TW 9110863126 Apr 2002
Published: 30 Oct 2003
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification3 codes

G06Q 10/087
Logistics, e.g. warehousing, loading or distribution; Inventory or stock management: inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling,…
G06Q 10/0877
Inventory or stock management, e.g. order filling, procurement or balancing against orders: by inventory control or reporting using inventory…
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial