JP4685887B2 - Product sales management system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to a merchandise sales management system for a store that purchases and sells merchandise from a headquarters.

  In a chain store system such as a convenience store, the ordered product is delivered to the store based on the order from the store to the headquarters. At this time, the store pays the purchase amount, which is the price required for the purchase, to the headquarters. On the other hand, the headquarters constantly monitors information related to products delivered to each store, and in the event of any situation where sales should stop for any product, emergency sales stop information indicating that the product should be stopped Is broadcast to each store.

  At the store that has received the emergency sales stop information, the staff selects the products subject to sales stop based on the emergency sales stop information and discards them. At this time, the clerk investigates and sums up the purchase amounts of each discarded product, charges the total amount to the headquarters, and collects the purchase amount.

  However, the products subject to sales suspension based on the emergency sales suspension information are selected manually by the staff. For this reason, there is a possibility that products to be discarded remain in the store without being selected. In this case, when a consumer tries to purchase a product that was not selected without registering the product at the cash register, the product was first identified as being subject to sales suspension. , Such as the disposal of merchandise, investigation of the purchase price, and billing to the headquarters.

Note that a vending machine having a function of automatically selecting and discarding products whose expiration date has expired is known (for example, Patent Document 1). Such a vending machine eliminates the need for an artificial operation for selecting a product, and thus prevents omission of selection.
JP-A-10-228563

  It is impossible to adopt a sorting function like a vending machine in a store. Eventually, it is the work of selecting and disposing of the products to be discontinued, and the work of investigating the purchase amount of the discarded products and charging it to the headquarters All of this is left to the manual work of the store staff.

  For this reason, there is a possibility that an error may occur in the operation of selecting a product to be discontinued, an incorrect amount due to a calculation error may be charged to the headquarters, or an incorrect amount due to malicious intent may be charged to the headquarters.

  In consideration of the above circumstances, the present invention is capable of reliably selecting and disposing of the products subject to sales suspension designated by the headquarters without any error, and calculating the purchase amount of the discarded products without any calculation error or fraud. It is an object of the present invention to provide a highly reliable merchandise sales management system that can be appropriately charged.

In the merchandise sales management system according to claim 1, in a store that sells merchandise purchased from the headquarters, a merchandise registered as a discarded merchandise by a staff member among the merchandise in the store is subject to sales suspension based on an instruction from the headquarters First determining means for determining whether or not the product is determined, and third determining means for determining whether or not the product determined to be a sales suspension target by the first determining means has a limited sales period; Count means for counting the number of products determined to be limited by the third determination means as a discarded quantity, and among the purchased products, the number of unsold products that are subject to sales suspension based on instructions from the headquarters and a detection means for detecting a quantity of product to be discarded, and a second determining means for determining whether or not the counted tombstone quantities quantity detected by the detecting means has reached, the second-size If the determination result of the means is positive, the purchase price of a product to be determined that there is restricted by the third judging means, have been extracted and extracting means for extracting from the delivery information stored in advance, in the extraction means stocking Calculating means for calculating the sum of the amount as the amount charged for the headquarters, and notifying means for notifying that the number of registered products is insufficient when the determination result of the second determining means is negative; Is provided.

  According to the merchandise sales management system of the present invention, it is possible to reliably select and dispose of the merchandise subject to sales suspension specified by the headquarters without any error, and to properly calculate the purchase amount of the discarded merchandise to the headquarters without calculation errors or fraud. Can be charged. This greatly improves the reliability of merchandise sales management.

Hereinafter, an embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings.
As shown in FIG. 1, a store server 2 is installed in each of a plurality of stores 1 such as convenience stores. Connected to these store servers 2 are ROM 3, RAM 4, hard disk drive (HDD) 5 for storing control programs, clock 6, operation display unit 7, printer 8, terminal interface 9, and network interface 10. A plurality of POS (Point Of Sales) terminals 20 in the store 1 are connected to the terminal interface 9. The network interface 10 performs data transmission / reception with the headquarters 30 via the communication network 11.

  A host server 31 is installed in the headquarters 30, and a ROM 32, a RAM 33, a hard disk drive (HDD) 34 for storing control programs, an operation display unit 35, a printer 36, a clock 37, a network interface 38, and the like are connected to the host server 31. Has been. The network interface 38 performs data transmission / reception with each store 1 via the communication network 11.

  As shown in FIG. 2, the POS terminal 20 includes a drawer 21 having a drawer 21 a for storing cash and the like, and a main body provided on the drawer 21. . On the main body of the POS terminal 20, a keyboard 22, a mode switch 23, a card reader 24, a touch panel type operator display unit 25, a customer display unit 26, an electronic journal 27 for storing a journal in an electronic medium, and a receipt and a journal are printed. A printer 28 is provided. Further, a hand-held scanner 29 is derived from the main body of the POS terminal 20 as product information input means. This hand-held scanner 29 optically reads information attached to a product, that is, a barcode printed on a product label or the like.

A control circuit of the POS terminal 20 is shown in FIG.
A CPU 40 as a control unit includes a hard disk drive (HDD) 41 that stores an operating system (OS) and application programs, a ROM 42 that stores various control programs, a RAM 43 for data storage, and an RTC (real-time clock) that generates date and time data. ) 44, keyboard 22, mode switch 23, card reader 24, touch panel type operator display unit 25, customer display unit 26, electronic journal 27, printer 28, handheld scanner 29, network interface (I / F) 45, etc. It is connected.

The CPU 40 controls the entire POS terminal 20 and has the following means (1) to (9) as main functions.
(1) First, it is determined whether or not a product registered by an operation of the hand-held scanner 29 or the touch panel type operator display unit 25 among the products in the store 1 is a sales stop target based on an instruction from the headquarters 30. 1 determination means.

  (2) Third determination means for determining whether or not the product determined to be subject to sales suspension by the first determination means has a limited sales period.

(3) counting means for counting the number of products determined to be limited by the third determining means;
(4) Detection means for detecting the number of unsold products that are subject to sales suspension based on instructions from the headquarters 30 among the purchased products.

  (5) Second determination means for determining whether or not the count value of the count means has reached the number detected by the detection means.

  (6) Extraction means for extracting the purchase price of the commodity determined to be restricted by the third determination means from the stored delivery information when the determination result of the second determination means is affirmative.

  (7) An arithmetic unit that calculates the total amount of purchases extracted by the extraction unit as the amount charged for the headquarters 30 when the determination result of the second determination unit is positive.

  (8) Notification means for notifying that the number of registered products is insufficient when the determination result of the second determination means is negative.

  (9) Means for creating an invoice in which the amount of charge calculated by the computing means is described.

Next, the operation of the above configuration will be described with reference to the flowchart of FIG.
The staff of the store 1 confirms the stock of the product, and inputs the order data of the product that needs to be replenished to the main POS terminal 20. The input order data is sent from the POS terminal 20 to the store server 2 and sent from the store server 2 to the host server 31 of the head office 30. Then, by the processing of the host server 31, a product corresponding to the order data is delivered to the ordering store 1. At this time, delivery information indicating the type, price, number, etc. of the delivered product is transmitted from the host server 31 to the store server 2. The transmitted delivery information is stored in the hard disk drive 5 connected to the store server 2.

  The staff of the headquarters 30 constantly monitors information on all products delivered to each store 1, and there is a situation (such as foreign matter contamination, manufacturing mistakes, corruption, label entry mistakes, etc.) where sales should be stopped for any of the products. In the case of such a case, emergency sales stop information for instructing to stop the sale of the product is broadcast from the host server 31 to the store servers 2 of all stores 1. The broadcasted emergency sales stop information is taken into the main POS terminal 20 from each store server 2 and stored in the hard disk drive 41, for example. Accordingly, information indicating that the emergency sales stop information has been received is displayed on the touch panel type operator display unit 25 of the main POS terminal 20.

  A staff member of the store 1 looks at the display on the touch panel type operator display unit 25 of the main POS terminal 20, recognizes that there is an instruction to stop emergency sales from the headquarters 30, and sets the mode switch of the POS terminal 20 to a predetermined key. Operate with. By this operation, the inspection mode initial screen shown in FIG. 5 is displayed on the touch panel type operator display unit 25. On the initial screen of the inspection mode, there is a “Register sales / receivables for urgent sales stop product” button. When this button is touch-operated by a staff member, the display on the touch panel type operator display unit 25 is displayed on the discarded product registration screen shown in FIG. 6 under the judgment that the emergency sales stop disposal registration business is selected (YES in Step 101). And the discarded merchandise registration process based on the operation of the staff is executed (step 102).

  That is, the clerk recognizes the product to be stopped from the emergency sales stop information, selects the recognized product from all the products in the store 1, and uses the hand-held scanner 29 to store the barcode attached to the selected product. Read with. By this reading, the product is registered as a discarded product. With this registration, as shown in FIG. 7, the name and unit price of the registered product are displayed in the discarded product registration screen.

  In addition, among products, for example, “oden”, “frank”, “Chinese bread”, “newspaper”, “stamp”, etc., there are products without a barcode. Buttons for “Oden”, “Frank”, “Chinese bun”, “Newspaper”, “Stamp” and “Others” are provided in the waste product registration screen so that such products can be registered. When the “oden” button is touch-operated, the display on the touch panel type operator display unit 25 is switched to the disposal product registration screen dedicated to “oden” shown in FIG. On the waste product registration screen dedicated to “oden”, a large number of buttons describing names and unit prices of multiple types of “oden” are arranged. By touching one of these buttons, the touched “oden” is registered as a discarded product.

  Then, each time a discarded product is registered, it is determined whether or not the registered product is a sales suspension target based on an instruction from the headquarters 30 (step 103). If it is a sale stop target (YES in step 103), it is determined whether or not the product is a so-called daily product with a limited sales period, for example, a shelf life (step 104). If it is a daily product (YES in step 104), the product is immediately discarded by the staff, and the number of products to be discarded is counted as a discarded quantity (step 105).

  However, if the registered product is not subject to sales suspension (NO in step 103), as error processing, as shown in FIG. 9, the text information “Not an emergency sales suspended product. Please check the product label.” Is displayed on the touch panel type operator display unit 25 (step 107). The clerk who sees this error screen recognizes that the registered product is not a target for suspension of sales, and returns the product to the store without discarding it. If the registered product is not subject to sales suspension and should be returned to the headquarters 30, as shown in FIG. 10, as an error process, “This product is not a product subject to disposal. Please perform the process. An error screen including the character information “is displayed on the touch panel type operator display unit 25. The clerk who sees this error screen recognizes that the registered product must be returned, and performs the work of returning the product to the headquarters 30.

  The display of the error screen in FIG. 9 or FIG. 10 is canceled by operating the clear key of the keyboard 22 (YES in step 108). With this cancellation, the display on the touch panel type operator display unit 25 returns to the discarded product registration screen of FIG. 7 or FIG.

  The disposal product registration screen of FIG. 7 or FIG. 8 has an “input stop” button to be operated when the registration is finished. When the “input stop” button is touched, it is determined that the registration is finished. (YES in step 106), the store server 2 detects the quantity of products to be discarded (step 109). That is, of the purchased products, the number of unsold products that are subject to sales suspension based on an instruction from the headquarters 30 is detected as the number of products to be discarded. Then, it is determined whether or not the counted discarded quantity reaches the detected quantity (step 110). If this determination result is affirmative, that is, if there are discard registrations for the quantity to be discarded (YES in step 110), billing amount calculation and bill creation processing are executed (step 111). That is, the purchase price of the daily product is extracted from the delivery information stored in the hard disk drive 5 among the products determined to be sales suspension targets. Then, the total of the extracted purchase amounts is calculated as a charge amount for the head office 30, and a bill describing the calculated charge amount is printed by the printer 8.

  The processing in steps 109 to 111 surrounded by the two-dot chain line in the drawing indicates that the processing is executed by the store server 2.

  If the counted discarded quantity has not reached the quantity of products to be discarded, that is, if the disposal registration for the quantity to be discarded has not been completely completed (NO in step 110), as shown in FIG. Then, a discard shortage warning screen for notifying that the number of products registered for discard is insufficient is displayed over the discard product registration screen (step 112). The staff member who has seen the discard shortage warning screen recognizes that the number of discard registrations is insufficient, and touches the “Continue” button on the discard shortage warning screen. When the “Continue” button is touched (YES in step 113), the discard shortage warning screen disappears, and the discarded merchandise registration process based on the operation of the staff is executed again (step 102).

  In the case of forcibly terminating the discard registration after recognizing that the number of discard registrations is insufficient, the staff touches the “end” button on the discard shortage warning screen. When the “end” button is touched (NO in step 113, YES in step 104), the calculation of the charge amount and the bill creation process are executed (step 111).

  In this way, it is determined whether or not the product registered by the staff of the store 1 is a product subject to sales suspension instructed from the headquarters 30, and if it is a product subject to sales suspension, The number is counted, and the number of unsold products among the products whose sales are to be stopped is detected. Then, it is determined whether or not the count value has reached the detected number. If the count value has been reached, the purchase amount of the product to be sold is extracted, and the total of the extracted purchase amounts is calculated as a charge amount to the headquarters 30. To do. Along with this calculation, if the number of products registered for disposal is insufficient, a warning is displayed to that effect. As described above, it is possible to reliably select and dispose of the products subject to sales suspension designated by the headquarters 30 without error, and to appropriately charge the headquarters 30 for the purchase price of the discarded products without calculation errors or fraud. . Therefore, the reliability of merchandise sales management is greatly improved.

  In addition, since a bill necessary for billing is automatically printed, it is possible to make a proper billing without any mistake or fraud.

  In addition, this invention is not limited to the said embodiment, A various deformation | transformation implementation is possible in the range which does not change a summary.

The block diagram which shows the structure of one Embodiment. The figure which shows the external appearance of the POS terminal in one Embodiment. The block diagram which shows the control circuit of the POS terminal in one Embodiment. The flowchart for demonstrating the effect | action of one Embodiment. The figure which shows the inspection mode initial screen of one Embodiment. The figure which shows the discarded goods registration screen of one Embodiment. The figure which shows the state as which the registration content was displayed on the disposal goods registration screen of one Embodiment. The figure which shows the discarded goods registration screen with respect to goods without barcode of one Embodiment. The figure which shows the error screen of one Embodiment. The figure which shows another error screen of one Embodiment. The figure which shows the warning display screen of one Embodiment.

Explanation of symbols

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 ... Store, 2 ... Store server, 5 ... Hard disk drive (memory | storage means), 8 ... Printer, 20 ... POS terminal, 25 ... Touch panel type operator display part, 30 ... Headquarters, 31 ... Host server, 40 ... CPU,

Claims (2)

In stores that sell products purchased from headquarters,
First determination means for determining whether or not a product registered as a discarded product by an operation of a staff member among the products in the store is a sales suspension target based on an instruction from the headquarters;
Third determination means for determining whether or not the product determined to be subject to sale stop by the first determination means has a limited sales period;
Counting means for counting the number of commodities determined to be limited by the third determining means as a discarded quantity ;
Among the purchased products, detection means for detecting the number of unsold products that are subject to sales suspension based on instructions from the headquarters as the quantity of products to be discarded ;
Second determination means for determining whether or not the counted discarded quantity reaches the quantity detected by the detection means;
An extraction means for extracting the purchase amount of the commodity determined to be restricted by the third determination means from the stored delivery information when the determination result of the second determination means is affirmative;
A calculation means for calculating the total amount of purchases extracted by the extraction means as a charge for the headquarters;
Informing means for notifying that the number of products registered as discarded products is insufficient when the determination result of the second determining means is negative;
A product sales management system comprising: The merchandise sales management system according to claim 1 , further comprising means for creating a bill in which a billing amount calculated by the computing means is described.

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