PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a supporting system for suppressing or dissolving the stock of an inappropriate quantity to be the waste of costs and reducing and minimizing the costs of a physical distribution center from the ordering and arrival to shipping and delivery of merchandise in the physical distribution center.;SOLUTION: In the physical distribution center, on the basis of the total costs required for the operation management, the cost per unit volume time of all merchandise storage parts in the center is calculated. A stock cost for each merchandise is obtained by multiplying with average stock time for each merchandise stocked in the physical distribution center and the volume of the storage part occupied by an average stock amount by the unit volume time cost. By simulation based on average total time required from the arrival to storage of each merchandise and the average stock time from the arrival to shipping calculated on the basis of the actual shipping result of each merchandise, the stock cost is minimized. Also, an ordering timing and an ordering quantity for which lead time for not generating merchandise shortage is taken into consideration are predicted and the merchandise is ordered to individual merchandise suppliers on the basis of the predicted values.;COPYRIGHT: (C)2002,JPO
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