Patent ID: 7664665

Claim:
A system for distribution management, the system comprising: a database server that connects to a database comprising a sales list and a check list stored thereon; a weighbridge configured for obtaining weights of vehicles; an application server connected to the database server and the weighbridge by a network, the application server comprising: a sales data maintaining module for generating sales records and sales bills in accordance with the sales list stored in the database and storing the sales records and sales bills in the database; a checking module configured for obtaining the sales bills from the database, obtaining the weight of each vehicle from the weighbridge, verifying whether a presently input weight obtained from the weighbridge matches the net weight of merchandise carried by the vehicle and whether the net weight matches a weight recorded in a corresponding sales record, wherein the sales bills and the sales records are used to generate a checking record if the input weight marches the net weight and the net weight matches the weight recorded in the sales records; for outputting alarm messages when discrepancies between the presently input weight, the net weight of merchandise carried by the vehicle and the weight in the corresponding sales record are found; and a processor to execute the sales data maintaining module and the checking module.