KR100868313B1 - Method and apparatus for managing the goods of various kinds and a little quantity batch production - Google Patents

Abstract

The present invention discloses a product management method and apparatus for a multi-product small quantity production method. In the product management method of the present invention, the product is registered not only in the central management server but also in the product management apparatus installed in each store, and the registered product information is shared with the central management server, and the product management apparatus of another store is managed by the central management server. By receiving and registering the product information registered by the central management server and other product management devices, it is possible to efficiently manage the product of the multi-product small quantity production method, in particular, the product of the multi-product small quantity production method in which the basic product is variously changed and sold. It can be effective. In addition, the store management apparatus of the present invention is implemented in a variety of electronic devices that can be connected to the central management server through a wired or wireless communication network, so that the manager of each store can grasp the product registration status and product sales, incoming and outgoing data of the store in real time on the go. It can be effective.

Description

Method and apparatus for managing the goods of various kinds and a little quantity batch production}

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an overall product management system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2A is a block diagram showing the configuration of the central management server of FIG.

2B is a block diagram showing the configuration of a product management apparatus according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

3 is a flow chart illustrating a basic product registration process of the present invention.

4A and 4B are flowcharts illustrating a process of selling and registering a product according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention.

5 is a diagram illustrating menus displayed when the user logs in at step S400 described above;

FIG. 6 illustrates an example of a product registration menu illustrated in FIG. 5 in more detail.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of a merchandise sales menu illustrated in FIG. 5 in more detail.

8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a menu for transmitting commodity sales history information to a central management server in step S472 or step S485.

FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating menus displayed when the product management apparatus is implemented as a mobile phone, when logging in in the above-described step S400.

The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing a product, and more particularly, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for managing a multi-product small quantity product.

With the development of computer technology, most stores have recently performed inventory management and sales management of goods using computers. Therefore, each store can query its own inventory status and product sales status in real time.

However, the conventional product management method adopts a management method suitable for mass production of small items, and is suitable for large distributors who sell limited products in large quantities, and is not suitable for the sale of products produced according to a small quantity production method of various types. There is a problem, and this problem is evident in a chain store-type store system that sells multi-product small quantity products that are rapidly spreading.

The problem of the prior art will be described taking, for example, the sale of accessories and jewelery products, which are representative examples of multi-product, small quantity production products.

Accessories and jewelry such as earrings and necklaces exist as one basic product, and various modifications are made to products registered as basic products according to the taste of the buyer. For example, if a basic necklace is composed of a core stone, a link ring, and a buckle, a retailer currently selling such a necklace changes only one of the above-described components according to the customer's request for each product. The sale of goods often happens.

In other words, if the customer likes the overall configuration of the necklace but does not like the buckle, the customer requests the replacement of the buckle alone, and the seller of the store sells the replaced product according to the customer's preference. do. In addition, a seller who sells a product needs to record which product is sold in order to prepare for a return from the customer, a request for repair of the product, and a request for repurchase of the product, and to keep a record of the sale of the product. Stores selling accessories and jewelery products manage their products by sketching the changed product shape in their notebooks if they sell changed products from these original products, so that enough time is available to sketch the changed products after the sale. If this is not secured, there is a problem of failing to record the sold goods and missing them.

In particular, this problem is serious in the case of an accessory and jewelry store chain having a distribution structure in the form of a chain store. The reason is that each accessory and jewelery chain store not only sells the products offered by the central chain headquarters, but also often manufactures, purchases, and sells the products in its own way. If a buyer requests repairs or repurchases of their purchased goods in another store in the same chain, the clerk of the requested store will not know whether the product was sold in a store in their chain. In addition, there was a problem in that it was not possible to properly respond to customers, and even in the case of paying chain store royalties based on sales, the central chain headquarters could not accurately identify the sales of each chain store.

The technical problem to be achieved by the present invention, as described above, to provide a product management method and apparatus suitable for the management of goods in accordance with the multi-product small quantity production method.

The merchandise management device of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem, the data storage unit for storing the product information and the image information of the product; A display unit configured to output product information and an image of the product; An identification information input unit for generating identification information of a product; An image generator for photographing a product and generating a product image; An input unit for receiving a product registration command and product information; And a controller which generates a serial number of the product according to the product registration command, assigns the serial number to the product information input from the input unit and the product image input from the image generation unit, and outputs the serial number to the data storage unit for registration.

In addition, the control unit receives the identification information of the product (purchased goods) that the customer wants to purchase from the identification information input unit, reads the product image corresponding to the identification information from the data storage unit, and outputs the image to the display unit, and purchases the purchased product. When the purchased product is changed as a result of comparison with the product image indicated by the identification information, the control signal is output to the image generating unit to receive the image generated by photographing the purchased product from the image generating unit, and receives the product information of the purchased product, The serial number associated with the serial number of the product indicated by the identification information may be assigned to the purchased product and registered in the data storage.

In addition, the above-described identification information input unit may be implemented as a barcode reader for reading the barcode attached to the product to generate the identification information of the product.

On the other hand, the merchandise management system of the present invention for achieving the above-described technical problem is a merchandise management system in which the merchandise management device described above is connected to a central management server through a predetermined communication network, and the merchandise management device includes a changed product from the central management server. Receives the product information and the image of the product to register in the data storage unit, and transmits the product information and product image and the product information and product image of the changed product registered by the administrator of the product management device, the central management server The product management apparatus transmits the product information and the product image registered by the administrator of the central management server to the plurality of product management apparatuses, and receives the product information and the product image received from any one of the plurality of product management apparatuses. To send them.

In addition, the product management apparatus included in the above-described product management system transmits the sales history information of the goods to the central management server, and the central management server stores and manages the sales history information of the products respectively received from the plurality of product management devices. can do.

On the other hand, the merchandise management method of the present invention for achieving the above technical problem, (a) registering the merchandise information and the image information of the merchandise in the internal data storage unit of the merchandise management device; (b) receiving, by the merchandise management device, identification information of a product (purchased product) to be purchased by the customer, reading the information of the product indicated by the identification information and the image of the product from the data storage unit and outputting the image to the user; And (c) when the user compares the image of the purchased product with the product indicated by the identification information, and when the product is changed, the product management apparatus receives a change product registration command from the user and captures the image of the purchased product. Inputting the information of the user, assigning a serial number associated with the serial number of the product indicated by the identification information, and registering the purchased product in the data storage unit.

In addition, the above-mentioned step (a) may include receiving product information and video information of a product from a central management server to which a plurality of product management devices are connected through a predetermined communication network; And registering the received product information and the image information in the internal storage.

In addition, the above step (a), the product management device receives the product information from the manager of the product management device, photographing the image of the product corresponding to the product information to register in the internal storage; And transmitting, by the product management apparatus, the registered product information and the image to the central management server to which the plurality of product management apparatuses are connected.

In addition, in the above-described step (a), the central management server registers the product information and the image received from the merchandise management device in an internal database, and other merchandise management devices connected to the central management server receive the merchandise information and The method may further include receiving an image and registering the image in an internal data storage.

In addition, the above-described merchandise management method further comprises the step of (d) storing merchandise sales history information on the purchased merchandise in an internal data storage, and transmitting the merchandise sales history information to a central management server that manages the sales history for each store. It may include.

In addition, in the step (b) described above, the bar code reading means connected to the commodity management device may input the information of reading the bar code attached to the purchased commodity as the commodity identification information.

Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a block diagram showing the configuration of an overall product management system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, the entire commodity management system includes a plurality of commodity management devices 200-a to 200-n to one central management server 100 through a communication network such as a wired / wireless internet network. Refer to ") and are connected.

As shown in FIG. 1, each product management apparatus 200 installed in each store is not limited as long as it can access and transmit data to and from the central management server 100 through a wired or wireless communication network. It can be implemented as a notebook PC, a mobile phone with a wireless Internet connection, and a PDA.

FIG. 2A is a block diagram showing the configuration of the central management server 100 of FIG. The function of the central management server 100 will now be described with reference to FIG. 2A further illustrating the function of the central management server 100 as a functional block.

First, the central management server 100 is the transceiver 110, the input unit 120, the identification information output unit 130, the display unit 140, the image capture unit 170, the controller 160, and the database ( 150, the database 150 includes a merchandise database 152, a store database 154, and a customer database 156.

First, the transceiver 210 transmits and receives data to and from the commodity management apparatuses 200 of a store connected through a wired or wireless communication network.

 Transmitting and receiving unit 110, 220 receives the product information of the product to be newly registered from the manager of the central management server 100, the display unit 140 to the manager product information, product images, and sales details of each store And sales status information. The input unit 120 may be implemented by a general keyboard, a mouse, a stylus pen, or the like, and the display unit 140 may be implemented by a general LCD and a CRT monitor.

The identification information output unit 130 performs a function of outputting identification information to be attached to a newly registered product. A preferred embodiment of the present invention uses a one-dimensional or two-dimensional bar code as identification information, in this case, the identification information output unit 130 may be implemented as a printer that can print a barcode.

The image capturing unit 170 photographs a product, generates a product image, and outputs the product image to the controller 160. The image capturing unit 170 may be implemented in various ways. For example, the image capturing unit 170 may be implemented as a web camera or a digital camera connected through USB.

The merchandise database 152 stores merchandise registered by the administrator of the central management server 100 and merchandise registered and received by the merchandise management apparatus 200 of each store. The information about the product stored in the product database 152 includes product information including the serial number (code number) assigned to the product, the name of the product, the model name of the product, the manufacturer, the selling price, etc. Information "is a concept including all the above-described contents) and a product image photographing the corresponding product.

In particular, since the product registration in the preferred embodiment of the present invention is performed not only in the central management server 100, but also in the product management apparatus 200 installed in each store, the serial number (code number) assigned to the product is the institution that registered each product. The identification information is preferably included therein so as to identify the central management server 100 or the product management apparatus 200.

On the other hand, the store database 154 receives and stores information on the store in which the corresponding product management apparatus 200 is installed from each product management apparatus 200. The store database 154 stores basic information such as location, contact information, and manager information of each store, history information of selling goods in each store, and sales information of each store aggregated at a predetermined time period.

The customer database 156 stores basic information such as names, addresses, and telephone numbers of customers who have purchased goods in each store, and information about products purchased by the customer.

The controller 160 assigns serial numbers according to predetermined criteria such as product characteristics, product types, and price ranges at the time of product registration, and inputs the product information input from the input unit 120 and the image photographing unit 170. The merchandise image is interconnected and registered in the merchandise database 152.

In addition, the controller 160 registers the product registration information (including product information, product image, and serial number) received from each product management apparatus 200 through the transmitter / receiver 110, to the product database 152. The product registration information is transmitted to the product management apparatuses 200 other than the product management apparatus 200 which transmits the product registration information.

In addition, the controller 160 receives the product sales history in real time or at a predetermined time period from the product management apparatus 200 connected through the wired / wireless communication network, and displays the sales history information and the sales information of each store stored in the store database 154. The sales status, inventory status, and the like for each product in the product database 152 are updated.

2B is a block diagram showing the configuration of the product management apparatus 200 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention. The function of the product management apparatus 200 will now be described with reference to FIG. 2B further illustrating the function of the product management apparatus 200 as a functional block.

As illustrated in FIG. 2B, the product management apparatus 200 according to the present invention may include a transceiver 210, an input unit 220, an identification information input unit 230, an identification information output unit 240, a display unit 250, It includes an image capturing unit 280, a control unit 270, and a data storage unit, the database 260 is a product data storage unit 262, store data storage unit 264, and customer data storage unit 266 It is configured to include).

First, the transceiver 210 transmits and receives data to and from the central management server 100 connected through a wired or wireless communication network.

The input unit 220 receives the product information of the product to be newly registered from the store manager, and the display unit 250 displays the product information, the product image, and the sales history and sales status information of the store to the manager. The input unit 220 may be implemented with a general keyboard, a mouse, a stylus pen, and the like, and the display unit 250 may be implemented with a general LCD and a CRT monitor.

When the customer wants to purchase a product, the identification information input unit 230 generates the identification information assigned to the purchased product so as to generate sales history information of the corresponding product (hereinafter, referred to as a purchased product). Will output

In the preferred embodiment of the present invention, since the one-dimensional or two-dimensional barcode is used as identification information of each product, the identification information input unit 230 reads the barcode attached to the product and outputs the serial number of the purchased product to the controller 270. It is implemented as a barcode reader. However, when the serial number is written in the form of a number instead of a barcode as a product identification number, the store salesman reads the identification information with the eyes and inputs identification information through a keyboard or the like. The information input unit 230 is integrated with the input unit 220 described above.

The identification information output unit 240 performs a function of outputting identification information to be attached to a newly registered product. As described above, since the preferred embodiment of the present invention uses a one-dimensional or two-dimensional barcode as identification information, the identification information output unit 240 may be implemented as a printer capable of printing a barcode.

The image capturing unit 280 photographs a product, generates a product image, and outputs the product image to the controller 270. The image capturing unit 280 may be implemented in various ways. For example, the image capturing unit 280 may be implemented as a web camera or a digital camera connected through USB.

The product data storage unit 262 stores information about products registered by the manager of the central management server 100 and products registered by the store manager. The information about the product stored in the product data storage 262 is the same as the product registration information stored in the product database 260 described above.

On the other hand, the store data storage unit 264 stores the merchandise sales history and sales information of the corresponding store and statistical information created in a predetermined period based on these information.

The customer data storage unit 266 stores basic information such as names, addresses, and telephone numbers of customers who have purchased a product in a store, and information about products purchased by the corresponding customer. The number of various applicable cases such as discount rate is managed according to the management according to the class of each customer.

The controller 270 assigns serial numbers according to predetermined criteria such as product characteristics, product types, and price ranges at the time of product registration, and inputs the product information input from the input unit 220 and the image photographing unit 280. The product image is mutually linked to be registered in the product data storage unit 262, and the registered product registration information is transmitted to the central management server 100 through the transceiver 210, and the product received from the central management server 100. The registration information is registered in the product data storage unit 262.

In particular, in the case of product registration, as described above, the serial number assigned by the controller 270 includes identification information for identifying a store that has registered the corresponding product. In addition, when the controller 270 changes and sells a product (hereinafter, used in the same meaning as "basic product") registered in advance at the request of a customer, as described below, the changed product and The linked serial number is assigned, and the product information and the product image of the changed product are input from the input unit 220 and the image photographing unit 280, respectively, and the changed product is registered in the product data storage unit 262. The change product registration information is transmitted to the central management server 100.

As described above, the product management apparatus 200 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention, except that the information about each store can not be viewed, the registration of the product, the inventory status of the store itself, sales status, sales The function is similar to that of the central management server 100 in that it can manage the current status and customer information of customers using the store.

Hereinafter, a product management method according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to FIGS. 3 to 9.

3 is a flow chart illustrating a basic product registration process of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 3, first, when a product to be sold in each store is received from a manufacturer, the central management server 100 inputs product information of a corresponding product including a model name, a manufacturer, a selling price, etc. of the product as described above. In operation S300, a product image is photographed using the image capturing unit 170 described above (S304).

Thereafter, the central management server 100 assigns a serial number indicating that the product is registered in the central management server 100 according to a predetermined criterion as described above, and registers the corresponding product, and each product management apparatus 200. Generate a list of products to be registered in (S308).

On the other hand, the merchandise management device 200 installed in each store is connected to the central management server 100 when a manager or a store salesperson of a store logs in, and receives a list of products generated by the central management server 100, The product list generated by the user is transmitted to the central management server 100 (S310).

In addition, the merchandise management device 200 examines the merchandise list received from the central management server 100 to determine whether a merchandise to be newly registered exists in the merchandise data storage unit (S320), and the merchandise to be newly registered is If it does not exist, the process proceeds to step S330 to be described later. If there is a new product to be registered, the registered product information extracted from the received product list is registered in the product data storage unit (S325).

Meanwhile, the product management apparatus 200 installed in each store outputs a store management menu when the manager of the store logs in to the manager menu (S330) and monitors whether product registration is selected from the manager menu (S340).

When the administrator selects a product registration menu, product information is input from the user (S350), as described above, the product is photographed by generating a product image (S354), and the product is assigned a serial number according to a predetermined standard. It is registered and stored in the product data storage unit (S358). On the other hand, in step S358, the product management apparatus 200 may transmit the product information registered in real time to the central management server 100, or generates a product list including the product information registered at a predetermined time period described above In operation S310, the central management server 100 may be transmitted. Alternatively, as described below, the merchandise list may be transmitted to the central management server 100 when the product management program ends.

In this case, the central management server 100 having received the registered product information from the product management apparatus 200 registers the received product information in the product database, and from the product and the product management apparatus 200 newly registered by itself. Using the received registration product, a list of products to be transmitted to other product management apparatuses 200 connected to the user is generated (S360).

The product list generated as described above may be transmitted and registered to another product management apparatus 200 when the product management apparatus 200 accesses the central management server 100 as in step S308 described above.

On the other hand, the product management apparatus 200 outputs a bar code so that the bar code can be attached to the goods as identification information of the registered goods (S370).

So far, the process of registering the basic product has been described with reference to FIG. 3. 4A and 4B are flowcharts illustrating a process of selling and registering a product according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. 4A and 4B, the product management method of the present invention will be described. First, a user logs in to the product management device 200 according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention with his ID (S400). In step S400, the user logging in may be an administrator of the central management server 100, an administrator of a store, or a salesperson of a store. In addition, although the preferred embodiment of the present invention has been illustrated that each account is implemented in three kinds, it can be implemented to classify into more various levels of accounts, and to set different permissions for each level of account. to be.

When the user logs in by inputting an ID and password, the merchandise management apparatus 200 investigates the user's level and proceeds to step S410 when the user is a store manager, and when the user is a store salesman, step S450. If the user is the central administrator, the process proceeds to step S490 (S405).

First, when the user is a store manager, the product management apparatus 200 outputs a store management menu (S410), and examines the user's selection information (S415).

When the user selects the customer management menu, the customer information is retrieved from the customer database and displayed to the store manager (S420). In this case, the displayed customer information includes the customer information of the name searched by the store manager, the customer information of the phone number searched by the store manager, the list of customers who have recently purchased a lot of products, the list of customers who have recently celebrated a birthday or various anniversaries, etc. Various customer information may be displayed according to the search setting condition.

In addition, if the store manager selects a product registration menu in step S415, product registration is performed in the same manner as described above with reference to FIG. That is, the store manager inputs the product information (S430), photographs the product using the image photographing unit 170, generates a product image (S432), assigns the serial number to the product, and stores the product in the product data storage unit. Register and store (S434). Thereafter, a bar code of the newly registered product is printed and attached to the product (S436).

In addition, when the store manager selects a menu related to the sales result and the stock status in step S415, the merchandise management apparatus 200 reads the merchandise sales history and the stock status stored in the store data storage unit and outputs it to the store manager (S440). ).

On the other hand, after the above-described step S420 to S450 is performed, the merchandise management device 200 checks whether the shop management menu is terminated (S450), and if not, proceeds to step S410 described above. If the customer wants to purchase a product while the store management menu is executed, the store management menu is terminated, and if the management program is terminated, only the store management menu is terminated and the management program is not terminated. If the management program is terminated, the process proceeds to a step S480 described later (S455).

On the other hand, if the user logged in in step S400 described above is a store salesperson, the store management device reads a bar code attached to a product (purchased goods) that the customer wants to purchase (S460), the identification of the product read from the barcode The information is inquired into the product data storage unit, and the product information and the product image of the product indicated by the identification information are output to the product seller (S462).

The merchandise seller compares the image of the output merchandise (basic merchandise image) with the shape of the merchandise currently being sold. If the merchandise is the same, proceeds to step S472 to sell the merchandise and input merchandise sales history information to store in the store data storage. (S464).

 On the other hand, as a result of the investigation in the above-described step S464, when a product is changed in the basic product, for example, the product is a product related to accessories and jewelry, the customer requests to change a part of the product, such as a buckle of the necklace, and accordingly When a part of the product is changed, the product management apparatus 200 receives product information of the changed product (hereinafter referred to as "change product") from the product salesman (S466), and photographs the image of the changed product (S468). The serial number associated with the serial number of the basic product is assigned and registered in the product data storage unit (S470). At this time, the serial number to be assigned is preferably assigned to include the identification information indicating the change product and the identification information of the store registering the change product to the serial number of the basic product.

When the change product is registered, the product sales person sells the change product, inputs the product sales history information, and stores it in the store data storage unit (S472).

Thereafter, the merchandise management apparatus 200 examines whether the merchandise sales menu is terminated, and if the merchandise sales menu is not finished, proceeds to step S460 (S474), and when the merchandise sales menu is terminated, the management program. If it is terminated by checking whether it has been terminated, the process proceeds to step S480 described later, and when only the product sale menu ends, the process proceeds to step S400 described above (S476).

On the other hand, when the store management menu and the merchandise sale menu described above are terminated, the store management apparatus collectively manages the list of products registered in the above-described steps S430 to S434 and S466 to S470. 100) (S480). If the new registered product list is not successfully transmitted to the central management server 100 in step S480, as shown in FIG. 3, when the management program is restarted in the product management apparatus 200, the central management is performed. It may transmit to the server 100.

In addition, the product management apparatus 200 transmits the sales history information input in step S472 to the central server while the management program is running (S485).

Meanwhile, in FIG. 4A, product information and sales history of newly registered products and newly registered changed products while the management program is running are collectively transmitted to the central management server 100 after the management program ends. As described above, as indicated by a dotted line in FIG. 4A, the product registration and sales history may be transmitted to the central management server 100 in real time.

In addition, whenever the corresponding store management mode (store management mode and product selling mode) is changed, the product information and sales history registered in the corresponding store management mode may be transmitted to the central management server 100.

Meanwhile, when the central manager logs in at step S400 described above, as illustrated in FIG. 4B, the product management apparatus 200 outputs the central manager menu (S490), and corresponds to the menu selected by the central manager. After requesting and receiving the information from the central management server 100 (S494), the received information is output to the central manager (S498).

For example, when the central manager visits a specific store and logs in using the merchandise management device 200 installed in the store, and selects the sales status inquiry menu for each store from the displayed central manager menu, the central management device 100 manages the central management server 100. Request the sales status data for each store, and the central management server 100 queries the store database and transmits the sales status data for each store to the merchandise management apparatus 200, and the merchandise management apparatus 200 does this. It will be received and output to the central administrator.

Meanwhile, in the above-described preferred embodiment of the present invention, only the manager and the salesperson and the central manager of the store in which the product management apparatus 200 is installed are described as logging in to be able to inquire the necessary information. It may be implemented to be able to access the product management apparatus 200 installed in its own store to view the information of its own store.

In this case, the merchandise management device 200 of each store, if the ID input in step S400 described above is not stored therein, inquires the ID input to the central management server 100, and the corresponding ID is stored as an administrator or a seller. Receives the connection information of the registered product management device 200 from the central management server 100, accesses the corresponding product management device 200 according to the received connection information, transmits the input ID and password, and manages the product When the login is performed in the device 200, necessary information is received from the connected product management device 200 and output to the user, so that the management of the own store may be performed at a remote location.

5 to 9 illustrate examples of menus displayed to a user according to the above-described product management method.

First, FIG. 5 is a diagram illustrating menus displayed when the user logs in the above-described step S400. The top menus described above show menus displayed when the central manager logs in the product management apparatus 200. And the menus below show an example of menus displayed when an administrator or a salesperson of a general store logs in.

6 is a diagram illustrating in detail an example of the merchandise registration menu illustrated in FIG. 5, and FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating an example of the merchandise sales menu illustrated in FIG. 5 in more detail.

8 is a diagram illustrating an example of a menu for transmitting commodity sales history information to the central management server 100 in step S472 or step S485.

In addition, FIG. 9 is a diagram illustrating menus displayed when the product management apparatus 200 is implemented by using a mobile phone at the step S400 described above, and the uppermost menus described above are centered on the product management apparatus 200. The menus displayed when the administrator is logged in are illustrated, and the menus at the bottom and the bottom show an example of menus displayed when the administrator or salesperson of the general store is logged in.

The invention can also be embodied as computer readable code on a computer readable recording medium. The computer-readable recording medium includes all kinds of recording devices in which data that can be read by a computer system is stored. Examples of computer-readable recording media include ROM, RAM, CD-ROM, magnetic tape, floppy disk, optical data storage, and the like, which are also implemented in the form of a carrier wave (for example, transmission over the Internet). It also includes. The computer readable recording medium can also be distributed over network coupled computer systems so that the computer readable code is stored and executed in a distributed fashion.

So far I looked at the center of the preferred embodiment for the present invention. Those skilled in the art will appreciate that the present invention can be implemented in a modified form without departing from the essential features of the present invention. Therefore, the disclosed embodiments should be considered in descriptive sense only and not for purposes of limitation. The scope of the present invention is shown in the claims rather than the foregoing description, and all differences within the scope will be construed as being included in the present invention.

As described above, the merchandise management method of the present invention registers the merchandise in the central management server as well as in the merchandise management apparatus installed in each store, shares the registered merchandise information with the central management server, and manages the merchandise of other stores. The device connects to the central management server and receives and registers the product information registered by the central management server and other goods management devices, so that the products of the small variety production method, in particular, the basic products are variously changed and sold, It is effective to manage the product efficiently.

In addition, the store management apparatus of the present invention is implemented in a variety of electronic devices that can be connected to the central management server through a wired or wireless communication network, so that the manager of each store can grasp the product registration status and product sales status of the store in real time on the go. There is. In addition, the present invention has an effect that can be linked to the act of selling in the online shopping mall as well as the act occurring in the offline store.

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(a) receiving, by the goods management apparatus, goods information and image information of the goods from a central management server and registering them in the data storage unit; (b) receiving, by the product management apparatus, identification information of a product (purchased product) to be purchased by a customer, reading information of the product indicated by the identification information and an image of the product from the data storage unit and outputting the image to the user; And (c) When the purchased product is changed and sold as a result of comparing the purchased product with the image of the product indicated by the identification information, the product management apparatus receives a change product registration command from a user and receives the image of the purchased product. Photographing the image, receiving information of the purchased product, assigning a serial number associated with the serial number of the product indicated by the identification information and registering the changed product as the data storage unit; (d) transmitting, by the product management apparatus, the changed product information including the image and the serial number of the changed product to the central management server, and registering the changed product information by the central management server; And and (e) receiving a plurality of goods management devices connected to the central management server and registering the changed goods information in a data storage. delete The method of claim 1, wherein before step (a) Receiving, by the other product management apparatus, product information from an administrator, photographing an image of the product corresponding to the product information, and registering the product information with the data storage unit; And And transmitting, by the other product management apparatus, the registered product information and the image to the central management server to which the plurality of product management apparatuses are connected. delete The method of claim 1, In step (c), the merchandise management device stores merchandise sales history information on the changed merchandise in the data storage; In the step (d), the product management device characterized in that for transmitting the product sales history information to the central management server that manages the sales history for each store. The method of claim 1, wherein step (b) And a bar code reading means connected to the commodity management device as the identification information of the commodity to receive information on reading the bar code attached to the commodity. A recording medium in which the product management method of any one of claims 1, 3, 5, and 6 can be read by a computer, and recorded with executable program code. delete delete delete A commodity management system comprising a plurality of commodity management devices connected to the central management server through a central management server and a communication network, The central management server transmits the product information and the product image registered by the administrator to the plurality of product management devices, and registers the product information and the product image received from any one of the plurality of product management devices Transmits to other commodity management apparatuses, registers the changed commodity information and the changed commodity image received from one of the plurality of commodity management apparatuses, and transmits them to other commodity management apparatuses, The plurality of merchandise management apparatus stores the merchandise information and merchandise image received from the central management server, the changed merchandise information and the merchandise image, and stores identification information of the merchandise (purchased merchandise) that the customer wants to purchase. After receiving the input from the user and the information of the goods represented by the identification information and the image of the goods from the data storage unit to output to the user, and comparing the purchased goods and the video of the goods represented by the identification information, the purchase goods When the product is changed and sold, the user receives a change product registration command from the user, photographs the image of the purchased product, receives the information of the purchased product, and gives a serial number associated with the serial number of the product indicated by the identification information. Register as a change product to the data storage, and the image and serial of the change product Commodity management system characterized in that for transmitting the change product information including the number to the central management server. The product management apparatus of claim 11, wherein The product management system, characterized in that for transmitting the sales history information of the goods to the central management server, the central management server stores and manages the sales history information of the goods respectively received from the plurality of goods management apparatus.

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