Abstract: To provide a method of complementing history information on a job, which has been performed by a company incapable of acquiring information on a level on which individual products can be discriminated from one another (hereinafter called an individual level), by utilizing business deal information, which is transferred through EDI (hereinafter called an EDI message) as long as one of two companies that make a business deal with each other through EDI can acquire job history information while discriminating the individual products from one another.

Abstract: In an assembled product, a decrease in reading efficiency is avoided from being deteriorated by reading the electronic tags of the parts and the assembled product, registering their configuration information, and by placing read restriction on the electronic tags of the parts. For this purpose, manufacturing instruction information, used for assembling parts into an assembled product, is used. When replaced, the electronic tags of the assembled product are read, read restriction is removed from the assembled product, the electronic tag is read, the electronic tag of a new part to be installed is read, read restriction is placed on the electronic tag, and the configuration information is updated. An invalid part replacement is detected by comparing the configuration information.

Abstract: A request for operating a calculation module which calculates processing environments of data processing corresponding to bid plan information is transmitted to an information processing capability providing apparatus which indicates possible conditions on which the data processing can be made and which match to desired conditions for the data processing of an information processing capability delivery and receipt apparatus and contained in the bid plan information and processing environment information calculated and received from the information processing capability providing apparatus is transmitted to the information processing capability delivery and receipt apparatus. The processing environments of the data processing such as stability, accuracy and communication network state are important decision material in decision of a provider which is requested to make the data processing.

Abstract: The cost of service provision for data storage is minimized, particularly for temporary storage of data. An information processing device includes: a storage case searching unit that accepts a data storage request from an input interface and searches cases in which data can be stored in a data center having a free capacity of at least the size of the storage data, as indicated in the data storage request and a data center table; a storage cost calculation unit that calculates the storage cost required for each case; a default cost calculation unit that calculates the default cost required for each case; and a case selection unit that calculates the total cost for each case and selects whether the data is stored in the data center or whether a data storage request is made to the data center, according to the case for which the total cost is a minimum.