| US 7,464,049 B2 | ||
| Product ordering device | ||
| Masaaki Maikuma, Tokyo (Japan); and Hiroaki Watanabe, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Assigned to Honda Giken Kogyo Kabushiki Kaisha, Tokyo (Japan) | ||
| Appl. No. 10/511,432 PCT Filed May 23, 2003, PCT No. PCT/JP03/06447 § 371(c)(1), (2), (4) Date Oct. 22, 2004, PCT Pub. No. WO03/100681, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 04, 2003. |
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| Claims priority of application No. 2002-149876 (JP), filed on May 23, 2002. | ||
| Prior Publication US 2005/0182635 A1, Aug. 18, 2005 | ||
| Int. Cl. G06Q 30/00 (2006.01) | ||
| U.S. Cl. 705—26 | 8 Claims |
| 1. A product ordering system for supplying products from a production source to a plurality of dealers in response to orders
requesting supply of the products, which are placed by the plurality of dealers, according to an order in which the orders
are placed, comprising:
estimated sales quantity-setting means for setting in advance an estimated sales quantity of the products to be sold during
a predetermined time period, for each of the dealers;
upper limit value-setting means for setting an upper limit value of an order quantity during the predetermined time period,
for each of the dealers, according to the set estimated sales quantity and a predetermined coefficient, wherein the predetermined
coefficient is determined based on a type of a product and at least one selected from a group consisting of a suppliable quantity
of the products and a delivery time of the product;
ordering means for placing the orders for the products from the plurality of dealers with the production source;
cumulative order quantity-calculating means for calculating a cumulative order quantity during the predetermined time period,
for each of the dealers, based on the orders placed by said ordering means; and
order quantity-limiting means for limiting orders for the products in excess of the limit value by the dealer, by comparing
the calculated cumulative order quantity and the upper limit value with each other.
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