JP2002007782A - Electronic commerce method and device - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To enable even a small-lot consumer to purchase merchandise expen sively and to enable a large-lot consumer to purchase merchandise by a required amount, as need. SOLUTION: In this electronic commerce method, purchasing orders including a purchase desired amount, concerning the same merchandise are received from plural purchase desiring person, a purchase target amount obtained, based on the total purchase desired amount of the merchandise is offered to one or more sales desiring persons and selling orders, including the sales desired price of the merchandise are received from the one or more sales desiring persons. Then the buying orders of same merchandise are summed up by using an electrical communication path and a computer, thereby, conducting bulk- buying the merchandise by means of a bid tender.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to an electronic commerce method and apparatus using an electric communication path such as the Internet and a computer.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, small and medium-sized enterprises, for example, a shop that manufactures and sells bread using flour, a shop that manufactures and sells tofu using soybeans, and manufactures anko and Japanese confectionery using red beans. Small-scale consumers (purchase applicants) such as retailers that manufacture and sell food, such as shops that sell products, are less likely to purchase large quantities of raw materials because they have a small desired quantity of raw materials. You have to buy raw materials at a relatively high price.

[0003] In addition, there are many purchase applicants who cannot purchase directly from a raw material maker, a primary wholesaler, or the like because of a desired quantity for purchase or a credit reason. on the other hand,
Large consumers purchase a certain amount of goods every time to keep the purchase price low, but this is a quantity that includes some amount of demand ahead of time, so surplus goods are stored in the warehouse until they are needed. They must be kept and labor and expense are required to maintain and manage the products.

[0004]

Therefore, in commercial transactions, it is important that a small customer can purchase a desired quantity at a low price and a large customer can purchase only a necessary amount at a low price when needed. is there.

[0005]

An electronic commerce method according to the present invention comprises a first step of receiving a purchase order including a desired purchase quantity of the same product from a plurality of purchasers using an electric communication path; The purchase target quantity obtained based on the total purchase quantity of the product is presented to one or more sales applicants by using an electric communication path, and the sales order including the desired sale price of the product is requested by the one or more sales wishes. And a third step of determining at least a supplier and a purchase quantity of the commodity from among the received sales orders.

[0006] A consumer of a certain product applies for at least the desired purchase quantity to the electronic commerce device using an electric communication path. The e-commerce device accepts purchase orders from a plurality of consumers, summarizes the quantity of the purchase order, bids the product with the quantity obtained based on the summarized quantity, and determines at least a supplier and a purchase quantity. Determined purchase quantity,
That is, the quantity of the adopted sell order is finally allocated to the purchase requester.

As described above, when the quantity of purchase orders from a plurality of consumers is put together for bidding, even if the quantity desired by each consumer is small, the quantity to be bid becomes large,
Therefore, even a small customer can purchase the product at a low price, and a large customer can purchase the product at a low price when needed.

[0008] The electronic commerce method may further include a fourth step of allocating the determined purchase quantity to the purchaser.

[0009] The purchase order further includes a desired purchase price desired by the purchaser, and the second step determines a target purchase price based on the purchase desired price in the received purchase order, and determines the purchase target price. Presenting a target quantity with the target purchase price may be included. If the purchase order does not include the desired purchase price, only the desired purchase quantity is accepted,
If a bid is made by presenting only the target purchase quantity to the sales applicant, the consumer is forced to purchase the product at the lowest contract price, and there is no option for the price. Therefore, according to the above, since the consumer has the right to select the price, it becomes easy for many consumers to participate in the commercial transaction of making a collective purchase, and the consumer is more likely than the price that can be purchased by himself. Since the risk of purchasing at a high price can be avoided, large consumers can also participate in the business transaction. In addition, since the sales applicants can determine the sales price based on the presented purchase price, many sales applicants can easily participate in the bidding. As a result, it is possible to avoid a failure to make a bid or a high bid price due to the purchase quantity being too small.

[0010] The first step includes urging a purchaser of a purchase order whose purchase price is too low to correct the purchase price. In this way, it is possible to avoid the failure of the bidding due to the buying order that is too inexpensive.

[0011] The target purchase price can be determined based on an average value of the desired purchase price. If you do this,
Even if the desired purchase quantity and the desired purchase price are different, it is possible to establish bids for many purchase orders.

[0012] The third step is a fifth step of judging whether or not there is a sell order with a price lower than the target purchase price.
Step can be included. In this way, an inexpensive sell order can be adopted.

[0013] The third step further includes the fifth step.
As a result of the determination in the step, if there is no sell order with a price lower than the target purchase price, the lowest buy order is excluded from the buy orders, and a new purchase is performed based on the desired purchase price of the remaining buy orders. A sixth step of determining a target price; determining whether the new target purchase price has reached the lowest desired selling price in the sell order; and determining whether the new target purchase price is the lowest desired selling price. And a seventh step of returning to the fifth step when the price has been reached. In this way, it is possible to succeed in bidding on many remaining buy orders excluding inexpensive buy orders.

[0014] The third step further includes the seventh step.
If the result of the determination in the step is that the new target purchase price has not reached the minimum desired selling price, an eighth step of returning to the sixth step can be included. In this way, you can eliminate inexpensive buy orders,
The bid for more buy orders can be successful.

[0015] The selling order further includes a desired sales quantity of the product by the sales applicant, and the third step is that the total desired sales quantity of the selling order at a price equal to or less than the target purchase price is equal to or more than the target purchase quantity. A ninth step of determining whether or not the total sales desired quantity is equal to or greater than the purchase target quantity; and determining a supplier and a purchase quantity of the product from the total desired sales quantity. 10 steps. In this way, the sell orders can be adopted in the order of lower price.

[0016] The third step may further comprise the ninth step.
As a result of the determination in the step, if the total sales desired quantity is not equal to or greater than the purchase target quantity, the adopted sell order corresponding to the total purchase quantity determined from the purchase target total price calculated from the purchase target price and the purchase target quantity. An eleventh step of determining a new target purchase price for the remaining buy orders excluding the above, and determining whether there is a sell order with a price equal to or less than the new target purchase price, and A twelfth step of returning to the ninth step when there is a sell order of the price.
In this way, the new target purchase price is higher than the original target purchase price, and as a result, a sell order that is equal to or less than the new target purchase price can be adopted.

The third step further includes the first step.
If the result of determination in step 2 is that there is no sell order with a price equal to or less than the new target purchase price, after determining a new target purchase quantity for the remaining purchase orders, the process returns to the second step and returns to the second step. The method may include a thirteenth step of presenting the new target purchase price and the new target purchase quantity to one or more sales applicants by using a telecommunication path. With this configuration, the sales applicant can determine the desired selling price based on the new target purchase price that has risen from the initial price, so that more bidding orders can be successfully made.

In the first step, it is determined for each purchaser whether or not the total purchase amount of money for each purchaser of the received purchase order is within the credit limit given to the purchaser. This may include prompting the purchaser whose total purchase amount exceeds the credit limit to reduce the purchase amount or the like. In this way, even a purchase order of a consumer with a small credit limit can be bid at once.

An electronic commerce device according to the present invention comprises: a purchase order receiving means for receiving a purchase order including a desired quantity of purchase for the same product from a plurality of purchasers using a telecommunication path; The purchase target quantity obtained based on the quantity is presented to one or more sales applicants using an electric communication path, and a sales order including the desired sale price of the product is sent from the one or more sales applicants to the electric communication path. And a purchase determining means for determining at least a supplier and a purchase quantity of the product from the received sell orders.

[0020] With such an electronic commerce device, the quantity of a purchase order is collectively applied to a commercial transaction. Therefore, even if the purchase quantity desired by each consumer is small, the quantity applied to the commercial transaction increases, and therefore, a small consumer is required. But you can buy the product at the same price as a large consumer,
Large consumers can also purchase as much as they need when they need it.

In the electronic commerce device, the purchase order further includes a desired purchase price desired by the purchaser, and the selling order receiving means includes a target purchase price based on the received desired purchase price in the purchase order. Is determined, and the purchase target quantity is presented together with the purchase target price. In this case, since the consumers have the right to select the price, it becomes easy for many consumers to participate in the commercial transaction of making a collective purchase. Also, since the sales applicants can determine the sales price based on the offered purchase price, many sales applicants can participate in the bidding, especially large customers You can participate in the commerce at the price you want. As a result, the merchandise can be bid for a larger quantity, received more bids for the merchandise, and obtained at a lower price.

[0022] The electronic commerce device may further include a master for recording data and transaction contents relating to the product, the purchaser and the sales client. In this way, various information such as the history of commercial transactions can be stored.

[0023] The electronic commerce device may further include distribution means for distributing the determined purchase quantity to the purchase applicant.

[0024]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS Referring to FIG. 1, an electronic commerce device 10 is connected to a plurality of purchaser (buyer) side computers 12 and a plurality of seller (seller) side computers using the Internet. 14, and is used as an electronic bidding device for executing bidding.

[0025] Both the purchase applicant and the sale applicant,
It may be an individual or an organization such as a company. Each purchaser is given a credit line in advance by the collective purchase executor (organizer), the cooperator, the bank, etc. of the electronic commerce device 10 based on the scale, the degree of credit, and the like.

Electronic bidding device, ie, electronic commerce device 10
Is a buy order receiving server 20 that receives buy orders from a plurality of purchase applicants for the same product, and accepts a sell order (bid) from a plurality of sales applicants for the product and sends a sell order of one or more sales applicants. The system includes a bid server 22 to be adopted, a distribution server 24 to determine a distribution destination of the adopted product, and a product / customer master 26 for storing various data.

The purchase order receiving server 20 is connectable to the computer 12 via the Internet, the bid server 22 is connectable to the computer 14 via the Internet, and the distribution server 24 is connectable to the computers 12 and 14 via the Internet. The three servers 20, 22, and 24 are connected to each other and exchanged with a product / customer master 26 for exchanging various data.

The servers 20, 22, 24 may be comprised of a single large computer capable of performing all of these functions. The credit limit (credit limit) given to each purchaser in advance is stored in the product / customer master 26.

The purchase order receiving server 20 informs a plurality of purchase applicants to execute collective buying by bidding on the same product in order to receive a purchase order from many purchasers of the same product (notification of execution of collective purchase). ).

The collective buying execution notice includes a deadline for accepting a buying order, a bidding execution date, a product type and its code number, a buying order method, and the like. This notification is made by sending it to the e-mail address of the purchaser, and by posting it on the homepage of the collective buyer. Thus, each purchase applicant can participate in collective buying by bidding using his / her own computer 12 and the Internet.

The purchase order includes the name of the purchaser and its code number, the type of the product and its code number, the desired purchase quantity,
Includes purchase order data such as desired unit price, desired total price, delivery deadline and delivery location of the product. The buying order is performed by transmitting the buying order data to the e-mail address of the buying executor or the buying order receiving server 20. When the buy order is sent to the collective buyer's e-mail address, the buy order data is re-input to the buy order receiving server 20.

Each time a buy order is input, the buy order receiving server 20 receives the buy order and temporarily writes data of the received buy order in its own memory. All the received purchase orders are supplied to the bidding server 22 and the distribution server 24 as purchase order data for each product and each customer after the deadline of reception, and are written in the product / customer master 26.

The bid server 22 sets a target value of the quantity to be collectively purchased by bidding based on all the purchase orders for the same product inputted from the purchase order reception server 20 (target quantity for collective purchase = target quantity for collective purchase). , A target value of a price to be purchased in a lump (a target price for a lump purchase = a target price for a lump purchase), and the like, set bidding conditions, and notify a plurality of sales applicants that bidding is to be performed on the product ( Notice of bid), accept bid.

The target purchase quantity can be the total purchase order quantity this time, and the target purchase price can be the average unit price of the current total purchase order. However, any of them may be another value. For example, the purchase target quantity is
Depending on whether the purchase amount of the same product in the previous bidding is in excess or deficiency, and the prediction of the next bidding, it may be less than the current total purchase order quantity, Is also good.

The bid notification includes a deadline for accepting a bid, a target purchase quantity, a target purchase price, a bidding method, and the like. This notification is made by sending an e-mail to the e-mail address of the seller, and by posting it on the homepage of the collective buyer. Thus, each sales applicant can participate in a bid using his own computer 14 and the Internet.

The bidding data includes sales order data such as the name of the seller and its code number, the type of the product and its code number, the desired sales quantity (available quantity), the desired sales price, the desired sales total, and the like. The bidding is performed by e-mail of the buyer who collects the sales order data as bidding data.
By sending to the address or the bid server 22,
Done. Bidding data is collected and executed by e-mail
When sent to the address, the bid data is re-entered into the bid server 22. The desired selling price can also be a unit price.

Each time a bid is received, the bid server 22 receives the bid, and stores the data of the received bid,
The information is temporarily written in its own memory and also written in the product / customer master 26.

All the received bid data is determined by the bidding server 22 together with the purchase order data supplied from the purchase order reception server 20 after the deadline for the bid reception, together with the determination of the supplier, purchase quantity and purchase price of the product ( Adopted). The determined supplier, purchase quantity and purchase price are supplied to the distribution server 24 as purchase data, and the goods / customer master 26
Is written to.

The distribution server 24 allocates the merchandise determined in the bidding server 22 to purchasers, notifies the purchase quantity and purchase price to the purchase applicant (distribution destination) and the sales applicant (supplier) 22 and Then, the determined distribution destination, distribution quantity, and distribution price are written to the product / customer master 26 as distribution data.

Next, the operation of the electronic commerce device 10 will be described with reference to FIGS.

In FIG. 2, the buy order receiving server 20
Sends a collective purchase execution notification to a plurality of purchase applicants, receives a buy order from the plurality of purchase applicants, and temporarily stores the received buy order data in its own memory (step 3).
0).

Next, the purchase order receiving server 20 determines whether or not the received purchase order is within the credit limit of the purchaser for each purchaser (step 31). This step 31 is performed every time a buy order is received. If the result of the determination in step 31 is that the buy order is out of the credit limit, the buy order receiving server 20 sets the conditions such as the desired purchase quantity in the buy order conditions. The change is notified to the purchase applicant, and it is determined whether the purchase applicant has changed the purchase order condition within the credit limit (step 32).

If the purchase order conditions are not changed within the credit limit, the purchase order reception server 20 does not receive the purchase order and notifies the purchase applicant of that (step 3).
3).

After the expiration date of the purchase order, the purchase order reception server 20 closes the reception and totals the purchase orders (step 34).

Next, the buy order receiving server 20 determines whether or not there is an abnormally low price for each buy order by determining whether or not the buy order is higher than the minimum reference price for each buy order. A determination is made (step 35).

The minimum reference price corresponds to, for example, what percentage of at least one of these prices based on the average value of all current purchase orders, the purchase target value at the time of the previous collective purchase, the normal market price, and the like. The price you want, you can decide.
When the minimum reference price is obtained from a price that can be obtained in advance, such as a target purchase price at the time of the previous bulk buying, a normal market price, or the like, every time a buy order is received, steps 35 and 3 are performed.
6 may be performed.

If there is a buy order with an abnormally low price, the buy order receiving server 20 notifies the purchase candidate of a change in the purchase price in the purchase order conditions, and the purchase candidate sets the purchase price to the minimum. It is determined whether the price has been changed to the reference price or more (step 36).

If the desired purchase price is not changed to the minimum reference price or more, the purchase order receiving server 20 does not receive the order and notifies the corresponding purchaser (step 33).

The purchase order receiving server 20 executes step 3
By executing steps 5 and 36, only purchase orders whose desired purchase price is equal to or higher than the minimum reference price are accepted. All the received buy orders are supplied as buy order data from the buy order receiving server 20 to the bid server 22 and written in the product / customer master 26 after steps 35 and 36.

Step 3
By executing steps 5 and 36, the buy order of Company D is modified as shown in Table 1 (B) with respect to the buy order as shown in Table 1 (A). Table 1 shows an example in which the minimum reference price of a certain product (for example, flour) is set to 85% of the normal market price, and the total purchase quantity is 157 tons.

In Table 1, the quantity (t) column is the desired purchase quantity (ton) of each buy order, the unit price column is the unit price per ton of each buy order, and the amount column is the total amount of each buy order. This is the purchase price. The unit price in the total column is the average unit price per ton, and% is the percentage of the average unit price with respect to the unit price of the normal market.

As shown in Table 1 (A), the average unit price of the desired purchase price of Company D before the correction was 1,168 yen per ton, but the corrected purchase price after the correction as described above. The average unit price was 1,171 yen per ton. As a result, a bid order that is too inexpensive can be eliminated, and the success rate of bidding can be increased.

Next, the bidding server 22 determines the target purchase price and the target purchase quantity, sets bidding conditions (step 37), and notifies a plurality of sales applicants that bidding will be executed for the product (step 37). 38).

In FIG. 3, when a bid is started (step 41), each time a bid is received, the bid server 22 receives the bid and temporarily writes the received bid data into its own memory (step 42). ).

When the deadline for accepting a bid has passed, the bid server 22 determines whether there is a selling order whose desired selling price is equal to or less than the target purchase price (step 43). When there is such a sell order, the bidding server 22 determines whether or not the total quantity of the sell order is equal to or larger than the target purchase quantity (step 44).

Steps 43 and 44 are executed from a sell order presenting an inexpensive desired selling price. As a result, in step 45, sell orders below the target purchase price are sequentially adopted from low-priced sell orders, and the supplier, purchase price and purchase quantity are determined as bid data.

If the determined total purchase quantity is equal to or greater than the target purchase quantity, the bid server 22 supplies the selected bid data (sell order data) to the distribution server 24 and writes it in the product / customer master 26 (step 4).
5), thereby ending the bidding (step 46).

If the result of determination in step 44 is that the total purchase quantity has not reached the purchase target quantity, the bidding server 22 calculates the purchase target total price (buy target price) calculated from the purchase target price and purchase target quantity. A new target purchase price (remaining order unit price) is determined for the remaining buy orders excluding the sell order corresponding to the determined total purchase quantity (step 47), and there is a sell order with a price lower than the new target purchase price. It is determined whether or not it is (step 48).

If the result of determination in step 48 is that there is a sell order with a price lower than the new target purchase price, the bid server 22 returns to step 44, and if there is no such sell order, whether or not a bid has been made again. (Step 4
9).

If the result of determination in step 49 is that re-bidding has been performed, the bidding server 22 ends the bidding (step 46). However, if you have not re-bid,
The bid server 22 presents a new target purchase price and a new target purchase quantity for the remaining purchase orders to one or more sales applicants using the Internet (step 50),
Return to step 42 to receive a bid again.

As a result of the determination in step 43, if there is no selling order whose desired selling price is less than the target purchase price, the bidding server 22 excludes the buying order with the lowest price from the collective buying and replaces the remaining buying order with a new buying order. The purchase target price is determined (step 51), and thereafter, it is determined whether or not the new purchase target price has reached or exceeded the lowest desired selling price (step 52).

If the result of determination in step 52 is that the new purchase target price has reached or exceeded the lowest desired selling price, the bid server 22 executes step 43 again.

However, if the result of determination in step 52 is that the new target purchase price has not reached or exceeded the minimum desired selling price, the bidding server 22 determines whether there is any further purchase order to be deducted (step 52). 53).

If the result of determination in step 53 is that there is a buy order to be further excluded, the bidding server 22 executes step 51 again.
The bidding ends (step 46).

As described above, the bidding server 22 executes the steps 43 to 53, thereby adopting a selling order of a predetermined quantity and a predetermined price in the order of lower price. The adopted sell order is not only temporarily stored in its own memory as purchase data including a supplier, a purchase quantity and a purchase price, which respectively specifies a seller, a desired sale quantity and a desired sale price, It is supplied to the distribution server 24.

The distribution server 24 includes servers 20 and 2
Based on the various data supplied from 2, the determined goods are allocated to the purchaser, the purchase quantity and the purchase price are notified to the purchaser 12 and the sales applicant (supplier) 14, and the data are also reported. Is written into the product / customer master 26 together with the supplier as purchase data.

The procedure of delivery of the product to the purchase applicant is performed by the collective purchase executor. The cost required for delivery of the product may be, for example, cash on delivery, or may be added to the purchase price of the product and charged to the purchaser.

Next, steps 42 to 50 in FIG. 3 will be described with reference to Tables 2 and 3.

In Tables 2 and 3, the quantity (t) column is the desired quantity (ton) of each order, and the unit price column is 1 for each order.
Unit price per ton, and the amount column is the total desired amount of each order. The unit price in the total column is an average unit price per ton. The order acceptance minimum unit price is set as the minimum reference price.

Table 2 shows the result of bidding based on the final buy order shown in Table 1 (B). As a result of the bidding shown in Table 2 (A), there are only selling orders below the target purchase price (1171 yen / ton).

Therefore, as shown in Table 2 (B), the selling order of the company is first adopted in steps 43, 44 and 45, and then in step 47 the new purchase target quantity (137 tons) by the remaining buy orders is obtained. ) And a new purchase target price (1181 yen / ton) are calculated, and then re-bid is performed in steps 48, 49, and 50 under these conditions.

As a result of accepting the re-bid, assuming that there is a new bid as shown in Table 3 (A), the new selling price of Heisha and Kosha becomes the new target purchase price (1181 yen / ton). It is as follows. Therefore, as shown in Tables 3 (B) and (C), steps 43, 44, 4
According to 5, the selling orders of Heisha and Kosha are adopted in that order.

As described above, as a result of the initial bidding and the re-bidding, the initial purchase target quantity (157 tons) can be purchased with the initial purchase target amount (1171 yen / ton) or less. Based on such a bid result, the merchandise of the adopted selling order is distributed to each purchaser, and the purchase price shown in Table 4 is charged to each purchaser as the price of the merchandise.

In the example shown in Table 4, the purchase price of each purchaser is calculated by dividing the actual purchase unit price by the purchase target unit price and the actual purchase unit price ratio (98.62%).
This is the product of the total purchase price of each purchaser.

Next, steps 42 to 45 and 51 to 53 in FIG. 3 will be described with reference to Tables 5 to 8.

Based on the final purchase order shown in Table 5, the target purchase quantity is 157 tons and the target purchase price is 1175 yen /
Suppose that a bid is made in tons and the result of the first bid is shown in Table 6. In the first bid, there are no sell orders below the target purchase price (1175 yen / ton).

Therefore, as shown in Table 7, step 51
Excludes the purchase order of the lowest priced company A, the new purchase target quantity (57 tons) and the new purchase target price (1
209 yen / ton) is calculated.

Next, as shown in Tables 8 (A) and 8 (B), at steps 52 and 43, sell orders of the Ding company and the Ding company below the new desired purchase price are adopted in that order.

As a result, it is possible to purchase the target purchase quantity (57 tons) of each purchase order excluding Company A at a purchase target price or less of those purchase orders. The products of the sell order thus adopted are distributed to each purchaser except Company A,
The purchase price shown in Table 9 is charged to each purchaser except Company A as the price of the product.

Also in the distribution example shown in Table 9, the purchase price of each purchaser is calculated by dividing the actual purchase unit price by the purchase target unit price and the actual purchase unit price ratio (99.81%).
And the total purchase price of each purchaser.

As described above, a large number of consumers can purchase goods at a low price by bidding on collective buying using the Internet.

The present invention can be applied not only to electronic commerce using the Internet, but also to other electronic commerce such as inter-company electronic commerce using a general communication channel such as EDI.

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The present invention is not limited to the above embodiment. For example, the present invention can be applied not only to raw materials for food such as wheat, soybeans, and red beans, but also to electronic commerce of other commodities such as other raw materials, materials, and materials. The present invention can be variously modified without departing from the gist thereof.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a position embodiment of an electronic commerce device according to the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of accepting a buy order by the electronic commerce device shown in FIG. 1;

FIG. 3 is a flowchart for explaining an operation of executing a bid by the electronic commerce device shown in FIG. 1;

[Explanation of symbols]

 10. Electronic commerce equipment

[Procedure amendment]

[Submission date] June 21, 2000 (2006.2.
1)

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[Correction target item name] Claim 10

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[0009] The purchase order further includes a desired purchase price desired by the purchaser, and the second step determines a target purchase price based on the purchase desired price in the received purchase order, and determines the purchase target price. Presenting a target quantity with the target purchase price may be included. If the purchase order does not include the desired purchase price, only the desired purchase quantity is accepted,
If a bid is made by presenting only the target purchase quantity to the sales applicant, the consumer is forced to purchase the product at the lowest contract price, and there is no option for the price. Therefore, according to the above, since the consumer has the right to select the price, it becomes easy for many consumers to participate in the commercial transaction of making a collective purchase, and the consumer is more likely than the price that can be purchased by himself.
It can be avoided the risk of Buy has a high price, can be large consumers also participating in the transaction. In addition, since the sales applicants can determine the sales price based on the presented purchase price, many sales applicants can easily participate in the bidding. As a result, it is possible to avoid a failure to make a bid or a high bid price due to the purchase quantity being too small.

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[0020] With such an electronic commerce device, the quantity of a purchase order is collectively applied to a commercial transaction. Therefore, even if the purchase quantity desired by each consumer is small, the quantity applied to the commercial transaction increases, and therefore, a small consumer is required. But you can buy the product at the same price as a large consumer,
Large consumers can also purchase the necessary amount at a low price when needed .

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As described above, as a result of the initial bidding and the re-bid, the initial purchase target quantity (157 tons) can be purchased at the initial purchase target price (1171 yen / ton) or less. Based on such a bid result, the merchandise of the adopted selling order is distributed to each purchaser, and the purchase price shown in Table 4 is charged to each purchaser as the price of the merchandise.

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Claims (16)

[Claims] 1. A first step of receiving a purchase order including a desired purchase quantity of the same product from a plurality of purchasers using a telecommunication path, and a purchase target quantity based on a total purchase quantity of the product. Is presented to one or more sales applicants using a telecommunications channel, and a selling order including the desired selling price of the product is received from the one or more sales applicants using the telecommunications channel, and A third step of determining at least a supplier and a purchase quantity of the product from the received sales orders. 2. The electronic commerce method according to claim 1, further comprising a fourth step of allocating the determined purchase quantity to the purchase applicant. 3. The purchase order further includes a desired purchase price desired by the purchaser, and the second step determines a purchase target price based on the purchase desired price in the received purchase order. The electronic commerce method according to claim 1, further comprising presenting the target purchase quantity together with the target purchase price. 4. The electronic commerce method according to claim 3, wherein said first step includes prompting a purchaser of a purchase order whose purchase price is too low to correct said purchase price. 5. The electronic commerce method according to claim 3, wherein the purchase target price is determined based on an average value of the desired purchase price. 6. The method according to claim 2, wherein the third step includes a fifth step of determining whether there is a sell order having a price equal to or less than the target purchase price. E-commerce method. 7. The third step further includes, if the result of the determination in the fifth step is that there is no sell order with a price equal to or less than the target purchase price, a buy order with the lowest price from the buy orders. A sixth step of excluding and determining a new target purchase price based on the desired purchase price of the remaining buy orders; and whether the new target purchase price has reached the lowest desired sell price in the sell order. And returning to the third step when the new target purchase price has reached the minimum desired selling price. 7. The electronic commerce method according to claim 6, further comprising: 8. The third step further includes the step of: if the new purchase target price does not reach the minimum desired sale price as a result of the determination in the seventh step, The electronic commerce method according to claim 7, comprising an eighth step to return. 9. The selling order further includes a desired sales quantity of the product by the sales applicant, and the third step includes: determining a total sales desired quantity by a selling order having a price equal to or less than the target purchase price. A ninth step of determining whether the quantity is equal to or more than the quantity, and when the total quantity desired is equal to or greater than the purchase target quantity, determining a supplier and a quantity of the product from the total quantity desired. The electronic commerce method according to any one of claims 2 to 8, further comprising a tenth step of performing. 10. The third step is further calculated based on the target purchase price and the target purchase quantity when the result of the determination in the ninth step indicates that the total desired sales quantity is not greater than the target purchase quantity. An eleventh step of determining a new target purchase price for the price of the remaining buy order excluding the total amount of the adopted sell orders corresponding to the total purchase quantity determined from the total target purchase price to be determined, and the new target purchase price or less. It is determined whether or not there is a sell order with a price of, and if there is a sell order with a price lower than the new target purchase price, the process returns to the ninth step.
The electronic commerce method according to claim 9, comprising the steps of: 11. The third step further includes, if the result of the determination in the twelfth step indicates that there is no sell order with a price equal to or less than the new target purchase price, a new purchase by the remaining buy order is performed. After determining the target quantity, return to the second step to present the new target purchase price and the new target purchase quantity to one or more sales applicants using a telecommunication path. The electronic commerce method according to claim 10, comprising: 12. The first step is to determine for each purchaser whether or not the total purchase amount of money for each purchaser of the received purchase order is within the credit limit given to the purchaser. The electronic commerce method according to any one of claims 1 to 11, further comprising prompting a purchaser whose total purchase amount exceeds a credit limit to reduce a desired purchase amount or the like. 13. A purchase order receiving means for receiving a purchase order including a desired quantity of purchase for the same product from a plurality of purchasers using a telecommunication path, and a target purchase quantity based on the total purchase quantity of the product. Is presented to one or more sales applicants using a telecommunications channel, and a sales order including the desired selling price of the product is received from the one or more sales applicants using the telecommunications channel, and the received sale is received. An e-commerce device, comprising: a bidding unit that determines at least a supplier and a purchase quantity of the product from the order. 14. The purchase order further includes a desired purchase price desired by the purchaser, and the sell order receiving means determines a collective purchase target price based on the purchase desired price in the received buy order. And presenting the target purchase quantity together with the target purchase price.
An electronic commerce device according to claim 1. 15. The electronic commerce device according to claim 13, further comprising a master for recording data and transaction contents regarding the product, the purchaser, and the seller. 16. A distribution means for distributing the determined purchase quantity to the purchase applicant.
Or the electronic commerce device according to 15.