SUPPLIER RETRIEVAL APPARATUS AND SUPPLIER RETRIEVAL METHOD

摘要

A supplier retrieval apparatus is offered which has a control section for accepting an input made by a buyer or a supplier from a supplier information storage portion where classification codes of parts capable of being offered by partner suppliers are stored, a computing section for extracting combinations of classification codes capable of being offered by candidate alternative suppliers in response to an input of retrieval conditions from a buyer and calculating the degrees of similarity with classification codes being capable of being offered from the partner suppliers, and an output portion for outputting the results of the calculations.