Enterprise Supplier Retrieval via Keyword Segmentation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing supplier retrieval systems face challenges in quickly matching buyers with suitable suppliers due to lack of updating registered contents and failure to prompt specification revisions or missing content, leading to difficulties in efficiently switching or selecting alternative suppliers.

Innovation Solution

A retrieval method utilizing a processing section and storage unit that extracts and outputs item keywords similar to registered enterprises or items based on business keywords and classification codes, allowing for keyword registration and updates to enhance matching efficiency.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If suppliers register detailed information to improve retrieval accuracy, then buyer-supplier matching precision improves, but information registration and maintenance complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvematching precisionVSAvoidinformation registration complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system pre-registers classification code information and item keyword information in a structured format before actual retrieval operations. This preliminary organization of data into standardized categories and keywords reduces the complexity of information registration during actual supplier matching operations, while maintaining high matching precision.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The system transforms unstructured supplier information into structured parameters including classification codes and item keywords. By changing the representation format of supplier information from free-text to standardized parameters, the system improves matching precision while making information management more systematic and less complex.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #35Parameter changes

2Speed

If the system maintains updated supplier information to improve retrieval accuracy, then supplier switching speed improves, but information maintenance time increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvesupplier switching speedVSAvoidinformation maintenance time
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system automatically maintains supplier information by utilizing pre-registered classification code information and item keyword information. The automated retrieval process extracts and updates supplier data without requiring manual intervention, thereby maintaining current information for accurate supplier switching while minimizing the time suppliers need to spend on information maintenance.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #25Self-service

3Measurement precision

If comprehensive supplier information is registered to improve retrieval completeness, then alternative supplier identification accuracy improves, but data processing complexity increases

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveidentification accuracyVSAvoiddata processing complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments supplier information into distinct components: classification code information and item keyword information. This segmentation allows the retrieval system to process each component separately using specialized algorithms, improving alternative supplier identification accuracy while reducing overall data processing complexity through modular handling.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Data Source

PatentUS20250021902A1Retrieval method and retrieval device
Publication Date: 2025.01.16 HITACHI LTD
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AI summary

In a retrieval method executed by a retrieval device in which a storage unit holds enterprise information, classification code information, and item keyword information corresponding to an enterprise and an item of a particle supplied by the enterprise, at least one of a keyword indicative of a business of a first enterprise or a classification code of an item registered by the first enterprise is input. At least one item keyword is extracted corresponding to at least one of an enterprise similar to the first enterprise or an item similar to the item registered by the first enterprise, based on at least one of the keyword indicating the business of the first enterprise or the classification code of the item registered by the first enterprise, by referring to the enterprise information, the classification code information, and the item keyword information. Then, the extracted at least one item keyword is output.