To visually and remotely manage the stored conditions of commodities stored in a warehouse to be utilized by many and unspecified consignors while protecting the right of privacy, as if the warehouse would exist before the eyes of the consignors.
The warehouse management system comprises a camera 2, a camera moving mechanism 3, a managing computer 1 for controlling the camera 2 and the camera moving mechanism 3, and client computers 7 connectable to the managing computer 1. The managing computer 1 has moving control signal output means 12 for controlling the camera moving mechanism 3, photographing control signal output means 13 for executing photographing with the camera 2, image data storing means 15 for storing image data for each of the consignors, data reading means 17 for reading the image data for the commodities of the consignors, and data transmitting means 18 for transmitting the image data to the client computers 7 of the consignors.
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