DISTRIBUTION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a distribution management system capable of performing the optimum distribution management for products consisting in a mixture of a new article made solely of new components and a reproduced article using at least in one part thereof a recyclable one of the used components of a used article collected. SOLUTION: The distribution management system is equipped with a before-use stock data memory part 3 to store the before-use stock data consisting of the past performance value for each unit period of the stock number of the products before use and the prediction value, a used stock data memory part 2 to store the used stock data including the stock number of the recyclable used articles having recyclable components of a used article, and an ordered quantity deciding part 6 to decide the respective ordered numbers of the new articles and reproduced articles on the basis of the used stock data relative to the required ordered quantity calculated on the basis of the before-use stock data. COPYRIGHT: (C)2007,JPO&INPIT