JP2002087527A - Packing material supply system - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide an efficient packing material supply system capable of ordering and delivering packing materials by indexing the required packing materials on the basis of production plans of commodity producers. SOLUTION: The producers A1 to An prepare a production plan table 11 by a computer 10. A packing material procurer X can make access to the production plan table 11 by the computer 20, and calculates a packing material quantity of respective required outer packing, inner packing and individual packing on the basis of an each commodity conversion table 22 from the production plan table 11, and prepares an ordering schedule table 23. Packing material suppliers B1 to Bn prepare a commodity delivery plan table 31, and inform the producers A1 to An of the table, and deliver the packing materials according to the table 31.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a system for supplying packaging materials required by producers such as confectionery and beer in a timely manner in accordance with a production plan.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art At present, producers themselves calculate the required amount of packaging materials such as external packaging and individual packaging in accordance with a product production plan, and based on this, a packaging material supplier (a packaging material producer, an intermediate distributor). (Including contractors) by telephone or facsimile, and the packaging supplier usually delivers the ordered quantity to the required location by the required date.

[0003]

However, in a large company or the like having many production bases, procuring necessary packaging materials at each production base is a very time-consuming and wasteful method as a whole.

An object of the present invention is to provide a system which determines necessary packaging materials based on a production plan of a producer, orders the packaging materials, and enables efficient delivery.

[0005]

In order to solve the above-mentioned problems, according to the present invention, a packaging material supplier who procures packaging materials for a product based on a production planning table created by the product producer has a package for each product. The quantity of at least one or more types of packaging materials among the interior and individual packaging is determined, an order schedule table corresponding to the production planning table is created and sent to a packaging material supplier appropriately selected. A delivery plan table corresponding to the order schedule table is created, and data to be transmitted to the producer is transmitted and received by the electronic control means.

Preferably, the delivery planning table is sent to a producer via a packaging material supplier. It is preferable that the packaging material supplier has a conversion table of packaging materials required for each product unit.

[0007]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the accompanying drawings. FIG. 1 shows an example of hardware used in this system. As illustrated, such as sweets or beverages growers A ₁ ...... A _n, provided with electronic control means such as a personal computer, the packaging material raisers X via a public communication network such as the Internet and online The computer can exchange data with each other, and the packaging supplier X can use the packaging supplier B via a public communication network.
₁ ... Data communication is possible with a computer provided in B _n .

Next, the flow of data will be described with reference to FIG.
You. As shown, producer A₁~ A _n, For example, confectionery or
Of the production plan table in the computer 10
11 as a file. This production planning table
11 is, for example, as shown in FIG.
May be a daily plan like, or a plan every few days
The number of days is not limited. In short, it is produced sequentially at regular intervals.
Anything that lists the quantity may be used. In this table 11
Indicates a product name and a product name code of the product. Also production
Can be independent producers or a single company
It may be a base (for example, a branch or a factory). In the latter case
Stores the production planning table 11 of each production site
(For example, at the head office or the head office). This
These tables 11 are the computer 20 of the packaging material supplier X.
Or accessible by the producer A₁~ A_n
Side to send to the packaging material supplier X's computer 20
It has become. Also, if there are any special delivery conditions,
A file 12 is created. Note that the production planning table 1
The unit of 1 is the minimum unit that requires a packaging material. For example
If 50 rice crackers are stored in one bag, the "bag" is the smallest
Is a unit. This minimum unit is arbitrarily selected by the producer
it can.

On the other hand, the computer 20 of the packaging material supplier X
Has files of a database 21 of packaging material suppliers B _{1 to} B _{n and} a conversion table 22 by product name. Database 21 of the packaging material supplier B ₁ .about.B _n is packaging material supplier name, address, type of feed available packaging material, special connections (e.g. conventional and packaging material suppliers and producers A ₁ to A _n Supplies a specific packaging material to a specific producer), and a method of supplying the packaging material (direct delivery or delivery company). In addition, as shown in FIG. 4, for each product name, the product name conversion table 22 includes, for example, a soft wrapping bag as an individual package and several soft wrapping bags corresponding to the production amount indicated in the production plan. A conversion rate of a cardboard box as an exterior to be collected and stored is registered. Speaking of the product AAA in the product name conversion table 22, the former is "1" for the production amount, and the latter is "0.10000", that is, ten flexible packaging bags are stored in one cardboard box. become. Here, the individual packaging is a form for packaging the minimum unit of the product, and if 50 pieces of rice cracker are packaged in a bag as described above, a "bag (soft packaging bag)" is a single packaging. In the case of plate chocolate (product CCC) or the like, a paper sack that wraps one chocolate at a time is individually packaged. Is the exterior. And
As described above, since the minimum unit that requires the packaging material can be arbitrarily selected, the conversion factor can also be arbitrarily selected. It is preferable that the conversion table 22 also registers a loss rate in anticipation of a defective product or breakage during packaging, a spare stock quantity required by a producer, and the like.

The packaging material supplier X obtains the information of the production plan table 11 and immediately receives the conversion table 22.
The necessary packaging material is calculated by the computer 20 based on.
At this time, of course, the loss rate and the spare stock are also calculated.
Then, the packaging material supplier database 21 is searched and extracted under conditions such as the supplier most convenient for transportation, or a supplier whose relation with the producer is determined in advance, and this is extracted as shown in FIG. One of the packaging material suppliers B _{1 to} B _n extracted in the format of the order schedule table 23 is notified. At this time,
As shown in FIG. 5, if the scheduled delivery date and delivery time are specified in advance, the scheduled delivery date is calculated, and the delivery time is also added. If the table in FIG. 5 is always constant, the supplier 21 may hold the table as the database 21. If the table is specified at each time, the table may be specified in the delivery condition 12 described above. The table 23 in FIG. 6 does not consider the spare stock.

The packaging material suppliers B _{1 to} B _n having received the order schedule table 23 compare their own inventory, orders from other companies, production capacity, and the like with the order schedule table 23. Check if it can be delivered in 23 ways,
If there is some modification, the computer 30 creates the delivery plan table 31. This table 31 may have almost the same format as the order schedule table 23. Although the producer is notified of the contents of the delivery plan table 31, the notification may be performed via the packaging material supplier X. Of course, the packaging material supplier X must keep track of the contents of the delivery planning table 31 at all times.

According to the delivery plan table 31, the packaging material is supplied.
Payer B₁~ B_nIs the producer A₁~ A _nDelivery of packaging materials to
You. This transportation operation may be performed by a transportation specialist.
In that case, the packaging material supplier X can arrange for transportation.
Wear.

In the present invention, the packaging material supplier may be, for example, a head office or a head office, and the packaging material supplier may be a branch or a factory thereof. The public communication network does not matter whether it is the Internet or online.

[0014]

According to the present invention, as described above, the packaging material supplier calculates the required amount of all packaging materials based on the product production planning table and places an order with an appropriate packaging material supplier. This eliminates the need for the producer to procure various packaging materials in an amount corresponding to the production volume, and eliminates the need for inventory management, greatly contributing to cost reduction.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing an example of hardware used in a system of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing the flow of data and packaging material according to the system of the present invention.

FIG. 3 is a chart showing an example of a production plan table;

FIG. 4 is a chart showing an example of a product name conversion table;

FIG. 5 is a table showing an example of (a) a scheduled delivery date table, and (b) a scheduled delivery time table.

FIG. 6 is a chart showing an example of an order schedule table;

[Explanation of symbols]

10 Computer 11 Production Planning Table 12 Delivery Conditions 20 Computer 21 Packaging Supplier Database 22 Product Name Conversion Table 23 Ordering Schedule Table 30 Computer 31 Delivery Planning Table A _{1 to An} Producer B _{1 to} B _n Packaging Supplier X Package Material procurement

 ────────────────────────────────────────────────── ─── Continuing on the front page (72) Inventor Hiromichi Ishikawa 1-7-1 Uchisaiwai-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo Rengo Co., Ltd. Tokyo headquarters F-term (reference) 3F022 EE08 MM08 MM11 MM28

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A packaging material supplier who procures packaging materials for a product based on a production planning table created by the product producer, at least one of the exterior, interior, and individual packaging of each product. Calculate the quantity of the material, create an order schedule table corresponding to the production plan table, send it to the packaging material supplier selected as appropriate, the packaging material supplier creates a delivery plan table corresponding to the order schedule table, and A packaging material supply system in which transmission and reception of data to be transmitted to a producer is performed by electronic control means. 2. The packaging material supply system according to claim 1, wherein the delivery planning table is transmitted to a producer via a packaging material supplier. 3. The packaging material supply system according to claim 1, wherein the packaging material supplier has a conversion table of a packaging material required per unit of each product.