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US 8,949,148 B2Granted
Goods receipt preparation
AssigneeSap SE
InventorsAmar Kumar, Wolfgang E. Walter, Viola Mitterer, Pascale van Laethem
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Abstract
Methods and systems for receiving shipping documents, correlating information in the shipping documents with purchase-order information in a database to produce expected delivery manifests, then directing a transport to a processing facility to unload items which are verified against the delivery manifest. Software to support these systems is also described and claimed.
Claims18
A method comprising:
- receiving a shipping document in connection with an arrival of a transporter at a destination;
- correlating, in a computer, items listed in the shipping document with items listed in a purchase order to produce an expected delivery manifest;
- directing the transporter to a processing facility after producing the expected delivery manifest;
- unloading an item from the transporter;
- and
- verifying that the item is present on the expected delivery manifest.
3 more elements
A goods receiving facility comprising:
- a staging area to receive a shipping vehicle carrying arriving goods;
- a database to record identities and quantities of ordered goods;
- comparison logic to identify an intersection of a first plurality of items listed in a shipping document from the shipping vehicle and a second plurality of items listed in the database, producing an expected delivery manifest;
- and
- an unloading facility to remove arriving goods from the shipping vehicle and correlate the arriving goods with the expected delivery manifest, wherein
- the unloading facility is engaged to unload the shipping vehicle after the expected delivery manifest is produced.
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A computer-readable storage medium containing data and instructions to cause a programmable processor to perform operations comprising:
- preparing an expected delivery manifest by identifying an intersection between a bill of lading and a purchase order;
- directing a truck to one of a plurality of docking stations after preparing the expected delivery manifest;
- and
- storing a received goods inventory identifying items unloaded from the truck at the one of the plurality of docking stations.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.