Patent ID: 7574384

Claim:
An order management system embodied on a computer-readable storage medium for managing orders of resources for production of products, the order management system configured to control a computer having an input device and an image displaying device, comprising: storage means for storing an order management table indicating an order quantity and a required quantity of resources for each period among a plurality of periods; first ordering means for retrieving the required quantity of resources for each period from the storage means, and transmitting first order information indicating the required quantity of resources for each period directly as an order quantity to an order received management terminal via a network; required quantity determination means for retrieving, from the storage means, the order management table showing the order quantity of resources for each period indicated as the first order information transmitted by the first ordering means, and for displaying the order management table on the image displaying device; correction means for correcting the required quantities of resources in one or more periods included in a second predetermined period following a first predetermined period by decreasing the required quantities of resources in the second predetermined period following the first predetermined period when the required quantities of resources in one or more periods included in the first predetermined period are increased by a user's operation of the input device, wherein the decreased amount of the required quantities corresponds with the increased amount of the required quantities; and second ordering means for determining a latest order quantity of resources in each period included in the first predetermined period to equal the required quantity of resources in each period included in the first period, and for determining a latest order quantity of resources in each period included in the second predetermined period to equal to the required quantity of the resources in each period of the second predetermined period corrected by the correction means, and then transmitting a second order information indicating the latest order quantity of resources for each period included in each of the first predetermined period and the second predetermined period to the order received management terminal via a network.