System and method for managing retail and wholesale operations
OwnerJack Nelsoninventor
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Abstract
A unified ordering, warehousing, accounting, inventory, sales, delivery and communications system and method. Although the system and method pertain to the furniture operations and sales, the system and method can also be used by different entities in other retail and wholesale operations. The system is accessed over the Internet by the sales representatives, dealers, manufacturers and consumers by mobile sales representatives' laptops, dealers' servers, manufacturers' servers and consumers' computers. The method utilizes the system for all aspects of the furniture industry including handling raw material, organizing inventory and coordinating communications between salespeople, customers and manufacturers.
Claims12
A computerized ordering, warehousing, accounting, inventory, sales, delivery and communications system used by different entities, said system comprising:
- a datacenter that is accessed over the Internet by the different entities by computers;
- a processor;
- and
- a computer readable media with executable instructions that carry out steps comprising:
- searching for desired products by an item number, a SKU number and a provided search category;
- displaying the desired products and product attributes found by the search, which includes a SKU number, a manufacturer, a JPEG image, a list price, a discount price, a sale price, assembling components, a fabric name, a fabric number, a fabric style, a color, a grade, a finish, a cleaning code and instructions, matching products, a bed size, item variants and inventory information selected;
- selecting, deleting and updating desired products to a selection basket, including available quantities and prices of the desired products;
- exchanging and updating inventory, raw material, purchase order, sales order and selection basket data with the datacenter that is accessed over the Internet;
- determining final product parameter data for a final product;
- entering the final product parameter data for the final product into the datacenter;
- determining an amount of a sales order for manufacturing and shipping the final product;
- determining a customer's credit worthiness for the amount of the sales order for manufacturing and shipping the final product;
- determining a delivery schedule;
- generating a production order for the final product for a manufacturer based on the final product parameter data;
- manufacturing the final product;
- determining routing and loading shipping procedures for the final product;
- establishing shipping and receiving procedures for the final product;
- and
- shipping the final product.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.