Patent ID: 7689475
Filing Date: 2010-03-30
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
1. A server apparatus comprising: a receiver, arranged to receive received order information which is received from an information processing apparatus via a communication line and which contains at least information indicating an order quantity of an article, order placement date and time, and a delivery date; and a controller, arranged to control stock reserve of an article using a received order status table into which the order placement date and time, the order quantity, the delivery date, and shipping instruction flags are recorded in a unit of an order number, wherein the shipping instruction flags include a warehouse flag indicating whether the article is stocked in a branch warehouse or master warehouse, and a shipping flag indicating whether shipment of the article is ready or instructed, wherein if the delivery date of the received order information is today, said controller executes a first determination comprising the step of determining whether or not a non-reserved quantity of the article stocked in the branch warehouse and/or the master warehouse is equal to or greater than an order quantity of an article, wherein if the non-reserved quantity of the article is less than the order quantity of the article, said controller executes a second determination comprising the steps of (a) determining whether or not reservation of the article, which is stocked in a first branch warehouse nearest an address of a customer of a first order information and which has been reserved for a second order information, is changeable and (b) determining whether or not the master warehouse is stocked with the article which can be reserved for the second order information, wherein said controller, if the reservation is not changeable, or the reservation is changeable and the master warehouse is not stocked with the article which can be reserved for the second order information in the second determination, executes a third determination comprising the steps of (a) determining whether or not reservation of the article, which is stocked in a second branch warehouse near to the address of the customer and which has been reserved for a third order information, is changeable and (b) determining whether or not the master warehouse is not stocked with the article which can be reserved for the third order information, wherein said controller executes reservation for the first order information to reserve the stock in the first or second branch warehouse for the first order information when the non-reserved quantity of the article is equal to or greater than the order quantity of the article, or the reservation is changeable and the master warehouse is stocked with the article which can be reserved for the second or third order information, and wherein said controller sends information indicating that a day-of-order delivery is impossible to the information processing apparatus via the communication line when the sum of the non-reserved stock quantity and the reserved stock quantity of the article stocked in the branch warehouse and the master warehouse is less than the order quantity of the article.