Appeal 2006-2018
Application 09/815,731
1 12. Yamamoto’s invention relates, in another aspect, to a raw
2 material ordering system by which orders for raw materials necessary for the
3 production of products can be placed with flexibility . (col. 1, ll. 17-19).
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5 13. It is, therefore, a first object of Yamamoto’s invention to provide
6 an ideal production system, which takes in sales information from retail
7 outlets timely and with accuracy and manufactures products with flexibility
8 in quick response to the sales information. (col. 3, ll. 30-36).
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10 14. Thus, this system comprises a retail sales information collecting
11 means, a production quantity setting means for determining a production
12 quantity according to the sales information collected by the first-mentioned
13 means, a directing means for directing the preparation and production of raw
14 materials according to the production quantity determined as above, and a
15 production means for producing the determined production quantity in
16 accordance with the direction. (col. 3, ll. 40-48).
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18 15. [T]his production quantity data is fed to said directing means for
19 directing the preparation and production of necessary raw materials
20 (col. 3, ll. 53-55).
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22 16. [S]aid retail sales information is collected from a plurality of
23 sample stores or departments and that said production quantity setting means
24 comprises a scale-up estimating routine for scaling-up of the retail sales
25 information and a demand forecast routine for predicting the demand
26 according to the scale-up estimate. (col. 4, ll. 4-9).
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28 17. The retail sales information collecting means 1 comprises a
29 plurality of point-of-sale (POS) terminal units 1a, 1b, 1c . . . installed at
30 different retail outlets. (col. 7, ll. 65-67).
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32 18. The production size setting means 2 includes a scale-up
33 estimating routine 5, a demand forecast routine 6 and a production size
34 determining routine 7. (col. 8, ll. 13-15).
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36 19. Yamamoto additionally discloses that the actual current inventory
37 may not necessarily be in agreement with the difference found by
38 subtracting the used quantity from the initial inventory data but some
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