Recycled product distribution support apparatus and program

Details Recycled product distribution support apparatus and program Recycled product distribution support apparatus and program

2005-09-09

2009-12-08

Trail, Allyson N (Department: 2876)

Registers

Systems controlled by data bearing records

C235S376000, C235S385000, C705S001100, C705S007380

Reexamination Certificate

active

07628316

ABSTRACT:
A recycling management apparatus acquires stock quantity information, past collection quantity information, and yield information for each type of products, cost information indicating costs for collecting and recovering used products, etc. from a client terminal via communication network and stores the information, while computing and storing stock reference quantity of each type of products. When receiving order information from the terminal at a sales base point, the apparatus computes a collection quantity of used products based on the ordered quantity, stock quantity, and stock reference quantity. The apparatus selects collection base point candidates which can collect the computed collection quantity of used products based on the past collection quantity information, and appoints a collection base point that is to collect used products from the selected candidates based on the cost information. The apparatus creates instruction information and sends it to the terminal at the appointed base point via network.

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