| 摘要 |
PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a distribution management apparatus that can, when goods produced in large lots and packed in cases, such as canned drinks, are to be distributed via a plurality of distribution bases, prevent such illegitimate conducts as smuggling cases or mixing imitations into lots.SOLUTION: A distribution management system comprises a manufacturing plant 1 that, after manufacturing cases each accommodating one or more individual objects, which may be containers holding gas, liquid or solid, assigns case IDs, each of which is information unique to one or another case, and ships out the cases, and distribution bases 4, which may be distribution warehouses, wholesale stores or retail stores in which the cases are temporarily stored before being delivered to their final destinations. The system further includes a management center 5 that manages cases and holds IDs, each of which is unique to the manufacturing plant 1 or one or another of all the distribution bases 4, via which the cases move when being delivered from the manufacturing plant 1 to the destinations, and the ID of each of the cases, the two types of IDs being associated with each other. |
