US 12,254,478 B2
Delivery date answering apparatus and delivery date answering method
Kenji Oya, Tokyo (JP); Tazu Nomoto, Tokyo (JP); and Takahiro Ogura, Tokyo (JP)
Assigned to HITACHI, LTD., Tokyo (JP)
Appl. No. 17/912,261
Filed by Hitachi, Ltd., Tokyo (JP)
PCT Filed Feb. 14, 2022, PCT No. PCT/JP2022/005696
§ 371(c)(1), (2) Date Sep. 16, 2022,
PCT Pub. No. WO2022/264506, PCT Pub. Date Dec. 22, 2022.
Claims priority of application No. 2021-100614 (JP), filed on Jun. 17, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2024/0211979 A1, Jun. 27, 2024
Int. Cl. G06Q 30/0202 (2023.01); G06Q 10/087 (2023.01); G06Q 30/0601 (2023.01)
CPC G06Q 30/0202 (2013.01) [G06Q 10/087 (2013.01); G06Q 30/0635 (2013.01)] 7 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A delivery date answering apparatus for improving an estimation of an order quantity to be provided to a non-demand forecast channel comprising:
a communication interface that receives data from the non-demand forecast channel and at least one demand forecast channel;
a memory that stores the data of the non-demand forecast channel and the at least one demand forecast channel;
a display;
a processor that is communicatively coupled to the communication interface, the memory, and the display, wherein the processor is configured to:
calculate a surplus inventory of a product in the at least one demand forecast channel, which is a sales channel for which order quantities are forecasted, by using an actual inventory and a sales plan of the at least one demand forecast channel, and transfer the surplus inventory to an orderable quota for the non-demand forecast channel, which is a sales channel for which order quantities are not forecasted, and set a predetermined disclosed quota for the orderable quota,
determine whether an order quantity of an actual order acquired in the non-demand forecast channel is within a range of the predetermined disclosed quota and, when the actual order is within the range, answer a delivery date as the actual order is deliverable at a designated time and, when the actual order is not within the range, answer the delivery date as the actual order is undeliverable at the designated time, and
display to the at least one demand forecast channel and the non-demand forecast channel, using the display, the communication interface that includes the order quantity and the predetermined disclosed quota for the orderable quota,
wherein based upon the determination, the order quantity is provided at the designated time to the non-demand forecast channel and within the range of the predetermined disclosed quota.