Patent ID: 7257559

Claim:
A material sales system comprising: calculating means for calculating an expected product yield for a product that is manufactured by a product manufacturing company using a material supplied from a material supply company based on at least a quality of the supplied material, said expected product yield being calculated by the product manufacturing company; transmitting means for transmitting the calculated expected product yield from the product manufacturing company to the material supply company; information processing means for determining a sales price of said material sold to the product manufacturing company using at least the expected product yield calculated by said product manufacturing company; and outputting means for outputting the determined sales price from the material supply company to the product manufacturing company, wherein the material supply company sells the material to the product manufacturing company based on the determined sales price, and wherein the product manufacturing company calculates the expected product yield based on at least the quality of the supplied material, which is then transmitted to the material supply company for determining the sales price of the material based on a sales price equation previously agreed upon between the product manufacturing company and the material supply company such that the product manufacturing company is directly involved with determining the sales price of the material.