Patent ID: 7398130

Claim:
An ordering/order receiving system which manages reception of orders for plural kinds of products and placement of orders for parts used for production of the products, the system comprising: storage means in which Bill of Materials data indicating configuration of parts of each of the products and stock amount data about parts used for production of the products are stored; classification means which classifies the parts used for production of the plural kinds of products into common parts used for production of two or more kinds of products out of the plural kinds of products and optional parts other than the common parts, based on the Bill of Materials data; MRP explosion means which calculates, as order placement data, the amount of the common parts and the amount of the optional parts necessary for producing the respective kinds of the products to achieve a forecasted sales, based on a forecasted amount of sales of the plural kinds of the products and on the Bill of Materials data; amount of ordered parts-increase means which determines increase parameters of the amount of the optional parts contained in the order placement data, based on amount of actually used assemblies of each category used for the plural kinds of products and on the amount of products scheduled to be used, and corrects the amount of the optional parts based on the increase parameters; material management means which adds amounts of delivery to stock amount data of the parts corresponding to the common parts and the optional parts, when response information including the delivered amounts of the common parts and the optional parts is accepted in response to the order placement data; MRP implosion means which, when required amount of products of the plural kinds are accepted, assigns the common parts and the optional parts to the required amount of products based on the Bill of Materials data, subtracts the assigned amount of the common parts and optional parts from the stock amount data about the parts corresponding to the common parts and optional parts, and then assigns excess amount of common parts indicated by the stock amount data about the common parts and optional parts corresponding in amount with the excess amount of common parts for each of the plural kinds of products; and means which outputs the amount of the kinds of products to which the MRP implosion means has assigned the excess amount of common parts and the optional parts as amount of the kinds of products for which additional orders can be received, wherein the amount of ordered parts-increasing means determines a ratio of increase of the amount of the optional parts contained in the order placement data, based on amount of actually used assemblies of each category used for the plural kinds of products and on the amount of products scheduled to be used.