KR-20260063748-A - STOCK MANAGEMENT METHOD BY FORECASTING FRESH FOOD PRICE FLUCTUATION

Abstract

One embodiment of the present disclosure provides an inventory management method through the prediction of fresh food price fluctuations. The method includes the steps of receiving fresh food prices for a preset period from a public institution server, calculating price fluctuation prediction data based on the fresh food prices for the preset period, and providing an optimal purchase time for fresh food that a buyer terminal intends to purchase.

Inventors

• 최종석

Assignees

• 주식회사 디어니언

Dates

Publication Date

20260507

Application Date

20241031

Claims (1)

1. Regarding inventory management methods through the prediction of fresh food price fluctuations, a) A step of receiving fresh food prices for a pre-set period from a public institution server; b) a method for managing inventory through fresh food price fluctuation prediction, comprising the step of calculating price fluctuation prediction data based on the fresh food prices of the previously set period and providing the optimal purchase time and quantity of fresh food that the buyer terminal intends to purchase.

Description

Stock Management Method by Forecasting Fresh Food Price Fluctuations The present invention relates to a method for managing inventory through the prediction of fresh food price fluctuations, and more specifically, to a technology for managing inventory and adjusting purchasing quantities of a food service business by utilizing information on the prediction of fresh food price fluctuations. The restaurant industry, which had been stagnant due to COVID-19, is growing back to its previous levels following the declaration of the end of the pandemic. Since agricultural products are the most frequently used ingredients in the food service industry, the proportion of costs associated with purchasing them is the highest. Fresh foods, such as produce, lose value and freshness as time passes after harvest, which also affects their taste. For this reason, inventory management is crucial for fresh foods. Traditionally, food service businesses purchased fresh food at a price deemed appropriate by the establishment, but had no choice but to discard it once freshness deteriorated, even if it resulted in losses. Alternatively, there is a problem in that when ingredients are completely depleted after purchasing in small quantities, businesses end up buying again at excessively high prices, leading to financial losses. Accordingly, there is an increasing need for technology that utilizes fresh food price fluctuation forecasting information to manage inventory and adjust purchasing volumes for food service businesses. FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an inventory management system through fresh food price fluctuation prediction according to one embodiment of the present invention. Figure 2 is a detailed diagram showing an inventory management device through the prediction of fresh food price fluctuations illustrated in Figure 1. FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating the sequence of an inventory management method through fresh food price fluctuation prediction according to another embodiment of the present invention. The present disclosure will be described in detail below with reference to the attached drawings. However, the present disclosure may be implemented in various different forms and is not limited to the embodiments described herein. Furthermore, the attached drawings are intended only to facilitate understanding of the embodiments disclosed herein, and the technical concept disclosed herein is not limited by the attached drawings. All terms used herein, including technical and scientific terms, should be interpreted in the sense generally understood by those skilled in the art to which the present disclosure pertains. Terms defined in advance should be interpreted as having additional meanings consistent with relevant technical literature and the present disclosure, and should not be interpreted in a highly ideal or restrictive sense unless otherwise defined. In order to clearly explain the invention in the drawings, parts unrelated to the explanation have been omitted, and the size, form, and shape of each component shown in the drawings may be varied. Throughout the specification, identical or similar parts are denoted by identical or similar reference numerals. Throughout the specification, when it is stated that a part is "connected (connected, contacted, or coupled)" to another part, this includes not only cases where they are "directly connected (connected, contacted, or coupled)," but also cases where they are "indirectly connected (connected, contacted, or coupled)" with other members interposed therebetween. Furthermore, when it is stated that a part "includes (provides, or provides)" a certain component, this means that, unless specifically stated otherwise, it does not exclude other components but rather allows for additional "included (provided, or provided)" of other components. In this specification, the term "part" includes a unit realized by hardware, a unit realized by software, and a unit realized using both. Additionally, one unit may be realized using two or more pieces of hardware, and two or more units may be realized by one piece of hardware. Meanwhile, "part" is not limited to software or hardware, and "part" may be configured to reside in an addressable storage medium or configured to run on one or more processors. Accordingly, as an example, "part" includes components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components, and task components, as well as processes, functions, attributes, procedures, subroutines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuits, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables. The functions provided within the components and "parts" may be combined into a smaller number of components and "parts" or further separated into additional components and "parts." In addition, the components and '~parts' may be implemented to play one or more CPUs within the device or secure multimedia card. In the following descri