Patent ID: 8121878
Filing Date: 2012-02-21
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. An execution decision support program which supports a decision on whether to execute procedures with respect to a regulation that limits the amount of a substance which enters and exits a business entity during a predetermined period, the execution decision support program executing a process using a computer comprising: an acquisition step of acquiring a regulation threshold of the amount of each of one or more regulated substances in the regulation, a predicted shipping amount for each of one or more products of the business entity during each time throughout the predetermined period, the content of a regulated substance contained in each of the one or more products, a profit per unit amount for each of the one or more products, and an expense necessary for the executing of the procedures, from input means of the computer or a storage unit of the computer; an accumulative substance amount calculation step of using the predicted shipping amount for each of the one or more products throughout the predetermined period and the content of the regulated substance contained in each of the one or more products to evaluate a predicted accumulative receiving substance amount for each regulated substance until each time throughout the predetermined period when the receiving of the regulated substance is regulated for the business entity, and a predicted accumulative shipping amount for each regulated substance until each time throughout the predetermined period when the shipping of the regulated substance is regulated for the business entity; a substance/time specifying step of specifying a regulated substance exceeding the regulation threshold among one or more regulated substances and a predetermined time exceeding the regulation threshold from the predicted accumulative receiving substance amount for each regulated substance until each time throughout the predetermined period or the predicted accumulative shipping substance amount for each regulated substance until each time throughout the predetermined period that is evaluated in the accumulative substance amount calculation step; a product specifying step for specifying a product containing the regulated substance specified in the substance/time specifying step among the one or more products; an excess period shipping amount calculation step for using the predicted shipping amount for each of the one or more products during each time throughout the predetermined period to evaluate the predicted accumulative shipping amount from the specific time specified in the substance/time specifying step to the end of the predetermined period with respect to one or more specific products specified in the product specifying step; a loss amount calculation step of evaluating a loss amount for each of the one or more specific products when it is assumed that any measures for the regulation are not executed and the specific product is not shipped since the specific period from the predicted accumulative shipping amount of the specific product from the specific time to the end of the year and the profit per unit amount for each of the one or more products, and evaluating the loss amount for each regulated substance by totaling the loss amounts of one or more specific products containing an identical regulated substance among the one or more specific products; an output step of outputting the loss amount of the regulated substance evaluated in the loss amount calculation step, the measure expense, and/or the ratio of the loss amount and the measure expense for the each regulated substance to output means of the computer; and a measure effect calculation step for evaluating the ratio when the ratio is outputted in the outputting step, wherein the output step includes outputting the time specified in the substance/time specifying step to the output means.