青果物流通における情報処理技術の革新と課題

Abstract

Today, we have entered upon post-industrial informative (information oriented) society. Value of information is increasing in agricultural secter. This study concerns about "DRESS SYSTEM" (Denden-kosha Real Time Sales Management System) applied to marketing farm products. A summary of the results is shown. [I] DRESS SYSTEM compared with other old informative medium has strong points as follow. (1) Sharp reduction of the charge for telephone and mail. (2) Expanding value of data processing and speeding up the progress of business. (3) Rationalization of business and labor management. (4) Unification of informative medium. [II] Problems of DRESS SYSTEM (1) Input error of sale slip. (2) What communication between wholsale companies and agricutural cooperative association should be when contacts by telephone are abolished or reducted? But, these problems were solved or will in time work out. (3) Under this system, wholesale companies can send market information to agricultural cooperatives but cannot receive any from them, in other words, DRESS SYSTEM lacks of intercommunication. [III] Conclusion In the near future, as long as unexpected innovation of new medium will not come in, I think DRESS SYSTEM will spread over our country rapidly. Various original forms of using DRESS SYSTEM may well be exist according to transport conditions. Every prefecture differs market situation or expectation for the function of this system (whether it wants market price or exact calculation information or both).