Patent ID: 6304856
Filing Date: 2001-10-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A freight information management method using electronic tags in a freight information management system having a consignor destination system installed at a consignor destination, base station system respectively provided at a plurality of base stations of a dealer in delivering freight collected from said consignor destination to a consignee, a consignee destination system provided at a consignee destination, a freight information overall management system connected with said base station systems, and an electronic tag attached to the freight to be delivered and being capable of electronically storing freight information necessary for delivery,wherein in said consignor destination system, inputting of collection request information including freight information concerning the freight to be delivered, consignor information concerning the consignor and consignee information concerning the consignee is received, said collection request information is stored in storage means, said collection request information is transmitted to a collection management system provided in a base station system of a base station serving as a departure store so as to be precedently registered in said electronic tag attached to said freight, freight numbers for identifying individual freight goods are read and stored, a base station serving as an arrival store is determined on the basis of said consignee information, and arrival store information, and arrival store information indicative of the determined base station and said collection request information are written into said electronic tag,said collection management system receives said collection request information, determines a terminal unit used for collection of the request freight, and transmits consignee information contained in said collection request information to said terminal unit,said terminal unit stores said consignor information, records collection record information including person in charge, work date and work index on said electronic tag during acceptance of said freight, reads said collection request information from said electronic tag, and transmits, as collection register information, said collection record information and said collection request information to said collection management system, andsaid collection management system transmits said received collection register information to said freight information overall management system;wherein when said freight is lot freight in which a plurality of freight goods are constituted as one lot, a basic electronic tag in which said freight number is precedently registered and a lot electronic tag in which said freight number is not registered are prepared as said electronic tag,said consignor destination system registers, in the course of register of the collection request information into said electronic tag, said collection request information including the number of the lot freight goods and arrival store information, into said lot electronic tag, andsaid terminal unit registers said collection record information into each of said basic electronic tag and lot electronic tag.