Material supply support apparatus and material supply support method

A material supply support apparatus comprising:

• an information acquisition unit that acquires
• production planning information including a scheduled usage number of a plurality of materials to be used in a manufacturing facility,
• storage material information including the number of the materials stored in a material storage cabinet,
• transfer means information including information for specifying transfer means for placing the materials and transporting the materials to the manufacturing facility, and
• worker information including information for specifying a delivering worker who executes delivering work for which the materials are picked up from the material storage cabinet and placed on the transfer means;
• a delivering instruction creator that creates a delivering instruction for picking up the materials to be supplied to the manufacturing facility from the material storage cabinet and placing the materials on the transfer means based on the production planning information, the storage material information, the transfer means information, and the worker information which are acquired by the information acquisition unit;
• and
• a delivering instruction transmission unit that transmits the delivering instruction to the delivering worker.