CN213814337U - Material object circulation control system - Google Patents

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CN213814337U
CN213814337U CN202022616940.7U CN202022616940U CN213814337U CN 213814337 U CN213814337 U CN 213814337U CN 202022616940 U CN202022616940 U CN 202022616940U CN 213814337 U CN213814337 U CN 213814337U
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The embodiment of the application discloses a material object circulation control system, which is used for improving the safety of a material object circulation link and meeting various management requirements of bags. The embodiment of the application comprises the following steps: an application server and a database server; the application server is respectively connected with the website teller operation terminal and the service library operation terminal; the database server is respectively connected with a network teller operation terminal and a service depot operation terminal, the network teller operation terminal is used for managing information of the access point of the luggage, and the service depot operation terminal is used for managing information of the access point of the luggage; the service library operation terminal is provided with an information receiver, an information transmitter and an information manager, and the information manager is respectively connected with the information receiver and the information transmitter; the information receiver is used for receiving the information of the bag outlet point sent by the teller operating terminal of the outlet point and sending the information of the outlet point to the information manager; the information transmitter is used for transmitting the information of the luggage ex-warehouse to the operation terminal of the teller in the network.

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Material object circulation control system
Technical Field
The embodiment of the application relates to the technical field of article transportation, in particular to a material object circulation control system.
Background
In addition to the three roles of cash-retaining market admission, cash market withdrawal and anti-counterfeit money, the current central bank moves other businesses such as cash, escort, custody and counting to downstream commercial banks, so that the commercial banks are prompted to undertake more cash logistics businesses, and meanwhile, the commercial banks successively form a plurality of cash processing modes in order to better face the change of the central bank in cash business.
The method comprises the following steps that physical objects such as cash, a payment voucher, precious metals, an object mortgage and a service seal need to be circulated in a service library and a service network every day, and the situations that the physical logistics are more in circulation links, the circulation frequency is high, the amount of money involved is large, the regional distribution is wide and the like exist; traditional business library management means is backward, the quality and efficiency of manual processing are low, risk cases are frequent, and internal control management needs to be strengthened urgently to prevent operation risks; particularly for the process management of the bags from the outlet to the service warehouse, the traditional management method is that the bags are all manually operated in the whole process from the outlet to the service warehouse, so that the risk controllability of the circulation link of the bags from the outlet to the service warehouse is poor, and problems are easy to occur.
SUMMERY OF THE UTILITY MODEL
The embodiment of the application provides a material object circulation control system for improving the safety of a material object circulation link and meeting various management requirements of bags.
The embodiment of the application provides a material object circulation control system, includes: an application server and a database server;
the application server is respectively connected with a website teller operation terminal and a service library operation terminal;
the database server is respectively connected with the network point teller operation terminal and the service depot operation terminal, the network point teller operation terminal is used for managing information of an access point of a luggage, and the service depot operation terminal is used for managing information of an access point of the luggage;
the service library operation terminal is provided with an information receiver, an information transmitter and an information manager, and the information manager is electrically connected with the information receiver and the information transmitter respectively;
the information receiver is used for receiving the information of the bags and the boxes going out of the network point, which is sent by the network point teller operation terminal, and sending the information of the bags and the boxes going out of the network point to the information manager, and the information manager is used for managing the information of the bags and the boxes going into the warehouse;
the information transmitter is used for transmitting the information of the luggage ex-warehouse to the teller operation terminal of the network point, and transmitting the information of the luggage ex-warehouse to the information manager, and the information manager is also used for managing the information of the luggage ex-warehouse.
Optionally, the information receiver is configured to receive the information of the bag exit from the website sent by the website teller operation terminal, where the information includes:
the information receiver is used for receiving the association information of the luggage and the real object in the luggage before the luggage is taken out of the website, which is sent by the website teller operation terminal.
Optionally, the service library operation terminal is further provided with a tag sensor, and the tag sensor is configured to verify validity of the information related to the luggage and the real object in the luggage.
Optionally, the sending, by the information sender, the information of the package ex-warehouse to the teller operation terminal includes:
the information transmitter is used for transmitting the association relation information of the luggage and the real objects in the luggage before the luggage is taken out of the service library to the network teller operation terminal.
Optionally, the teller operating terminal is provided with an information verification sensor, and the information verification sensor is configured to verify validity of the information on the association relationship between the luggage and the physical objects in the luggage.
Optionally, the material flow control system further includes: the real object circulation management module is respectively connected with the application server and the database server; the real object circulation management module is used for managing the handover confirmation information of each link of the luggage in the circulation process and the record of the handover confirmation information.
Optionally, the service library operation terminal includes: a display device and an input device;
the display device is electrically connected with the input device, the display device is used for displaying information on the service library operation terminal, and the input device is used for inputting an operation instruction into the service library operation terminal.
Optionally, the material flow control system further includes: and the storehouse management module is connected with the service library operation terminal and is used for checking the bags and searching the bags.
Optionally, the material flow control system further includes: and the query analysis module is connected with the service library operation terminal and is used for querying the luggage, querying the handover information of the luggage and querying the inventory information of the luggage.
Optionally, the material flow control system further includes: and the monitoring management module is respectively connected with the application server and the database server and is used for monitoring the success rate and the failure rate of the platform service of the material flow control system.
According to the technical scheme, the embodiment of the application has the following advantages:
be provided with net point automatic teller operation terminal and business storehouse operation terminal, through being provided with information receiver on the business storehouse operation terminal, information sender and information manager, can strengthen and to case and bag all kinds of safety verification of net point to business storehouse circulation in-process, further strengthen the management to case and bag, improve the circulation security of case and bag, effectual case and bag circulation inefficiency and the big problem of case and bag circulation risk among the prior art of having solved, further perfect financial convoy safety field to case and bag safety, accuracy and efficient management mode, in order to satisfy the future management demand to case and bag.
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FIG. 1 is a schematic flow diagram of a material flow control system;
FIG. 2 is a schematic flow diagram of a flow from an out-of-box point to an in-box service library in a material flow control system;
fig. 3 is a schematic diagram of a flow from a bag-out service library to a network-in point in a material flow control system.
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In the present invention, the terms "upper", "lower", "left", "right", "front", "rear", "top", "bottom", "inner", "outer", "middle", "vertical", "horizontal", "lateral", "longitudinal", and the like indicate orientations or positional relationships based on the orientations or positional relationships shown in the drawings, and are used only for explaining relative positional relationships between the respective members or components, and do not particularly limit the specific installation orientations of the respective members or components.
Moreover, some of the above terms may be used to indicate other meanings besides the orientation or positional relationship, for example, the term "on" may also be used to indicate some kind of attachment or connection relationship in some cases. The specific meaning of these terms in this application will be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.
Furthermore, the terms "mounted," "disposed," "provided," "connected," and "connected" are to be construed broadly. For example, it may be a fixed connection, a removable connection, or a unitary construction; can be a mechanical connection, or an electrical connection; may be directly connected, or indirectly connected through intervening media, or may be in internal communication between two devices, elements or components. The specific meaning of the above terms in the present application can be understood by those of ordinary skill in the art as appropriate.
In addition, the structures, the proportions, the sizes, and the like, which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings and described in the present application, are intended to be considered illustrative and not restrictive, and therefore, not limiting, since those skilled in the art will understand and read the present application, it is understood that any modifications of the structures, changes in the proportions, or adjustments in the sizes, which are not necessarily essential to the practice of the present application, are intended to be within the scope of the present disclosure without affecting the efficacy and attainment of the same.
The technical solutions in the embodiments of the present application will be clearly and completely described below with reference to the drawings in the embodiments of the present application, and it is obvious that the described embodiments are only a part of the embodiments of the present application, and not all of the embodiments. All other embodiments, which can be derived by a person skilled in the art from the embodiments given herein without making any creative effort, shall fall within the protection scope of the present application.
Referring to fig. 1, the present invention discloses a material object circulation control system, which includes: the application server 3 is respectively connected with the website teller operation terminal 4 and the service library operation terminal 2; the database server 1 is respectively connected with a website teller operation terminal 4 and a service library operation terminal 2; the teller operating terminal 4 is used for managing the information of the access points of the luggage; the service depot operation terminal 2 is used for managing the information of the in-out depot of the luggage; the service library operation terminal 2 is provided with an information receiver 41, an information transmitter 44 and an information manager 43, wherein the information manager 43 is electrically connected with the information receiver 41 and the information transmitter 44 respectively; the information receiver 41 is configured to receive information of the bag outlet point sent by the teller operating terminal 4, and send the information of the bag outlet point to the information manager 43, where the information manager 43 is configured to manage information of the bag entering the warehouse; the information transmitter is used for transmitting the information of the bag ex-warehouse to the teller operating terminal 4 and transmitting the information of the bag ex-warehouse to the information manager 43, and the information manager 43 is also used for managing the information of the bag ex-warehouse.
In the embodiment of the present application, it should be noted that the website only refers to a place for managing the bag and managing the real objects stored in the bag, for example: the business network of the bank, the bank branch and the bank head office, etc. do not specifically limit the place of the network; the service library in this application refers to only the place or equipment for storing the bags in the corresponding network, such as: the device with the function of storing the bags and the storeroom with the function of storing the bags are not specifically limited in the application.
Optionally, the information receiver 41 is configured to receive information about association between the bag and the real object in the bag before the bag is taken out from the website, which is sent by the website operation teller terminal 4, and the service library operation terminal 2 is further provided with a tag sensor 42, where the tag sensor 42 is configured to verify validity of the information about association between the bag and the real object in the bag.
In the embodiment of the application, the tag sensor 42 is electrically connected to the information manager 43, the information receiver 41 sends the information related to the physical object in the luggage and the bag before the exit to the information manager 43, the information manager 43 sends the management information to the tag sensor 42, the tag sensor 42 verifies the validity of the information related to the physical object in the luggage and the bag by using the tags on the luggage, the tags on different luggage are different, and the information of the luggage can be verified and managed according to the uniqueness of the tags.
Optionally, the information transmitter 44 is configured to transmit association relationship information between the bag and the real object in the bag before the bag leaves the service depot to the network node operation teller terminal 4, the network node operation teller terminal 4 is provided with the information verification sensor 21, and the information verification sensor 21 is configured to verify validity of the association relationship information between the bag and the real object in the bag.
Optionally, the teller operating terminal 4 is further configured to obtain information related to the real object in the bag and the bag.
In the embodiment of the application, when the handover information is scanned on the luggage, the luggage can be read and input in real time, the luggage is safely transmitted in real time through a network, and meanwhile, the mobile terminal records each operation, so that the record cannot be changed, the responsibility is clear, and an instant management basis is provided for a bank manager.
Optionally, the material flow control system further includes: the material object circulation management module is respectively connected with the application server 3 and the database server 1; the physical circulation management module is used for managing the handing-over confirmation information and the record of the handing-over confirmation information of each link of the case in the circulation process, wherein the physical circulation management module comprises: and the case circulation submodule is used for managing the case packing of the cases, managing the in-out warehouse of the cases and managing the in-out warehouse of the business warehouse storage area.
In the embodiment of the present application, the material flow management module implements multiple functions, including but not limited to the following functions: the operation that the box and the real object originally positioned in the service library protecting area are handed over out of the protecting area is realized; binding corresponding real object case IDs is realized, and double check is carried out to finish boxing; selecting the information of the bags which are subjected to the boxing of the service library for the cashier login physical circulation control system, scanning the ID of each bag needing to be taken out of the warehouse by cashiers, and automatically matching the IDs of the bags subjected to the boxing by the physical circulation control system after the double-person fingerprint verification of the two transfer parties succeeds; and (4) the cashier inputs the electronic tag of the luggage carrier through the material object circulation control system and realizes the functions of luggage consignment and luggage warehousing.
Optionally, the material flow control system further includes: and the storehouse management module is used for checking the bags and searching the bags.
In the embodiment of the application, the checking aiming at the traditional case is realized through the following steps: the service library personnel operate the transaction of 'bag and material check' in the material circulation control system, input check type information, click the 'start check' button, trigger the material circulation control system to scan the code and start scanning the stored bag, and the material circulation control system displays the checked bag information after scanning.
The checking aiming at the intelligent case is realized through the following steps: and (3) operating the 'bag and object checking' transaction by the service library personnel in the object circulation control system, and inputting bag and object information. And clicking 'starting checking', triggering the gateway equipment to scan the bags, finishing the scanning, and displaying checked bag information by the material object circulation control system.
Optionally, the material flow control system further includes: the inquiry analysis module is connected with the service depot operation terminal 2 and is used for inquiring the information of the luggage entering and exiting from the depot, inquiring the luggage escort early warning information, inquiring the transfer information of the luggage and inquiring the inventory information of the luggage; the application server 3 and the data server 1 are respectively connected with a monitoring management module, and the monitoring management module is used for monitoring the success rate and the failure rate of the platform service of the material flow control system; the database server 1 is connected with a plurality of scanning identification devices.
Referring to fig. 2, in the embodiment of the present application, the service library operation terminal 105 includes: the display device 1054 and the input device 1055, the display device 1054 is electrically connected with the input device 1055, the display device 1054 is used for displaying information on the service library operation terminal 105, and the input device 1055 is used for inputting an operation instruction into the service library operation terminal 105; when the box 104 goes out of the website 103, the website teller clicks 'website payment operation' through the website teller operation terminal 101, the website teller operates the application server 102 to generate a payment order number, and the application server 102 synchronizes the information such as the payment order number to the physical circulation control system; the network teller operates a 'network box packing box' transaction at a network operation teller terminal 101, selects a payment order number, and then checks and packs a real object into a box 104; the teller opens the box 104 to put the real object, and the lock of the box 104 is opened; a network teller loads real objects such as cash, precious metals and the like into a bag 104, locking operation is carried out after the bag is packed, a real object circulation control system confirms the locking state, the real object circulation control system records the locking process information of a lock of the bag 104, the process information comprises the locking state of the bag 104 and the personnel information in the operation process, and the real objects are associated with the bag 104 information, the transaction information and the personnel information; after the real object is loaded into the bag 104, the teller manually enters or scans the label of the bag 104, and associates the real object with the information of the bag 104; for the intelligent luggage, the association between the transaction and the luggage information is already carried out in the operation of opening and closing the luggage, and the scanning operation is not needed; the website teller operates the teller terminal at the website to operate 101 'website bag handover exit point' transaction, selects the bag 104 to be handed over, scans the label of the bag 104 or manually enters, hands over the bag 104 to a cashier after double check, and then completes the processing of the exit point 103 of the bag 104.
In the embodiment of the application, before the bag 104 enters the service depot, the information receiver 1051 in the service depot operation terminal 105 receives the information of the outlet of the bag 104 sent by the outlet teller operation terminal 101, and sends the received information of the outlet to the information manager 1053, and the information manager 1053 is used for managing the information of the outlet; the information manager 1053 sends the received site information to the tag sensor 1052, and the tag sensor 1052 is used to verify the validity of the bag 104 and the information related to the physical object in the bag 104; the circulation process of the bag 104 into the service library is as follows: the business library manager operates the 'case, bag, handover and warehousing' transaction, scans case and bag labels, rechecks the case and bag labels, and after double check of the cashier and the teller, respectively records fingerprints to complete handover; the original handover cashier operation is a 'clearing task allocation' transaction, cash to be cleared is allocated to the clearing cashier, and the clearing cashier inputs a fingerprint to receive the cash clearing task; distributing the articles which do not need to be sorted to the warehouse for cashier, and inputting fingerprints to complete handover after checking the warehouse for cashier; the case 104 to be checked, and the service personnel opens the case 104 to perform physical checking; checking the real object, checking the cashier and operating the transaction of 'checking result input' to input the checking result; checking the transaction of 'warehousing in a service warehouse storage area', recording the physical information to be warehoused, recording the fingerprint after checking the cashier in the warehouse, and putting the case 104 into the service warehouse.
Referring to fig. 3, in the embodiment of the present application, when a bag 204 exits from a service library 203, an application server 201 receives information sent by a website, and a service library operation terminal 202 operates a transaction on a corresponding system module to generate a transaction order number, which needs to be described as follows, for example: when the actual objects in the case are cash, vouchers, and precious metals, the selection may be managed by a single management system, or a plurality of separate management systems may be used for management, for example: one management system is used for managing cash clearing and the other physical management system is used for managing clearing and the like of various vouchers, and in the application, the number of the physical management systems for carrying out clearing and the like is not specifically limited; the cashier operates the 'business warehouse boxing' transaction in the physical circulation control system, selects a transaction order number to be boxed, checks the physical object and loads the physical object into the case 204, and a business warehouse manager opens the case 204 and puts the physical object into the case 204; after the real object is loaded into the bag 204, the service library manager manually enters or scans the bag 204 label, and associates the real object with the bag 204 information; for the intelligent luggage, the association between the transaction and the luggage 204 information is already carried out in the operation of opening and closing the luggage, and the scanning operation is not needed; rechecking whether the transaction order information of the cashier check point is consistent with the real object, and inputting a fingerprint after checking the transaction order information is correct to finish the boxing operation; the cashier operates the 'bag handover and ex-warehouse' transaction in the material object circulation control system, selects a bag 204 to be handed over, manually inputs or scans a bag 204 label, and inputs a fingerprint after rechecking the cashier and checking the bag without errors; the double check of the number of the bags 204 by the teller records the fingerprints respectively after the double check is correct, and the operation of handing over the bags 204 from the service depot 203 is completed.
In this embodiment of the application, before the bag 204 goes to the website, the information transmitter 2021 in the operation terminal 201 of the service depot transmits the information of the bag 204 before going out of the service depot to the operation terminal 205 of the website teller machine, the information verification sensor 2051 in the operation terminal 205 of the website teller machine verifies the information of the bag 204 before going out of the service depot, and if the verification passes, the information of the bag at the website is recorded; the flow of the bag 204 at the point of presence is as follows: the teller of the network point operates the transaction of 'network point and bag 204 handover and access point' in the physical circulation control system, the labels of the bag 204 are manually recorded or scanned, and the two parties of handover complete fingerprint recording in the physical circulation control system to complete the receiving operation of the bag 204; for the bags 204 which do not need to be checked, the material flow control system can be booked with a third-party system; the counter person starts the case 204 to be checked to check the real object, after the real object is checked, the counter person of the network node operates the transaction of 'checking the case and the case' in the real object circulation control system, manually inputs or scans the label of the case and the case 204, rechecks the fingerprint input by the counter person to complete the check, and then completes the operation of the network node of the case and the case 204.
It should be noted that the above mentioned embodiments and embodiments are intended to demonstrate the practical application of the technical solution provided by the present invention, and should not be interpreted as limiting the scope of the present invention. Various modifications, equivalent substitutions and improvements will occur to those skilled in the art and are intended to be within the spirit and scope of the present invention. The protection scope of the present invention is subject to the appended claims.

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1. A material flow control system, comprising: an application server and a database server;
the application server is respectively connected with a website teller operation terminal and a service library operation terminal;
the database server is respectively connected with the network point teller operation terminal and the service depot operation terminal, the network point teller operation terminal is used for managing information of an access point of a luggage, and the service depot operation terminal is used for managing information of an access point of the luggage;
the service library operation terminal is provided with an information receiver, an information transmitter and an information manager, and the information manager is electrically connected with the information receiver and the information transmitter respectively;
the information receiver is used for receiving the information of the bags and the boxes going out of the network point, which is sent by the network point teller operation terminal, and sending the information of the bags and the boxes going out of the network point to the information manager, and the information manager is used for managing the information of the bags and the boxes going into the warehouse;
the information transmitter is used for transmitting the information of the luggage ex-warehouse to the teller operation terminal of the network point, and transmitting the information of the luggage ex-warehouse to the information manager, and the information manager is also used for managing the information of the luggage ex-warehouse.
2. The material flow control system of claim 1, wherein the information receiver is specifically configured to receive information about association between the luggage and the material object in the luggage before the luggage exits from the website, the information being sent by the website teller operation terminal.
3. The real object flow control system according to claim 2, wherein the service library operation terminal is further provided with a tag sensor, and the tag sensor is configured to verify validity of the information related to the luggage and the real object inside the luggage.
4. The material flow control system of claim 1, wherein the information transmitter is specifically configured to transmit, to the outlet teller operation terminal, association relationship information between the bag and the material object in the bag before the bag exits the service repository.
5. The material flow control system of claim 4, wherein the kiosk is provided with an information verification sensor for verifying the validity of the information on the association relationship between the luggage and the objects in the luggage.
6. The dataflow control system according to claim 1, wherein the dataflow control system further includes: the real object circulation management module is respectively connected with the application server and the database server; the real object circulation management module is used for managing the handover confirmation information of each link of the luggage in the circulation process and the record of the handover confirmation information.
7. The material flow control system of claim 6, wherein the service library operation terminal comprises: a display device and an input device;
the display device is electrically connected with the input device, the display device is used for displaying information on the service library operation terminal, and the input device is used for inputting an operation instruction into the service library operation terminal.
8. The dataflow control system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising: and the storehouse management module is connected with the service library operation terminal and is used for checking the bags and searching the bags.
9. The dataflow control system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising: and the query analysis module is connected with the service library operation terminal and is used for querying the luggage, querying the handover information of the luggage and querying the inventory information of the luggage.
10. The dataflow control system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, further comprising: and the monitoring management module is respectively connected with the application server and the database server and is used for monitoring the success rate and the failure rate of the platform service of the material flow control system.
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