JP2008037590A - Article delivery management system - Google Patents

Abstract

<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To always identify a destination written in an electronic tag of a packed box with a destination written in an electronic tag of an article as a content. <P>SOLUTION: The article distribution management system comprises a first data carrier attached to each article to be delivered, a second data carrier attached to a packed box to be delivered, housing a plurality of articles, a common attribution information extracting means for reading the data written in the second data carrier to extract common attribution information related to the article from the data, and a writing means for writing the extracted common attribution information into the first data carrier. Identification of destinations is achieved by writing the common attribution information, which is written in the condition wherein a plurality of articles are housed in the packed box, into the first data carrier. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2008,JPO&INPIT

Description

  The present invention relates to an article delivery management system, and in particular, an article delivery management in which a plurality of articles to be delivered and a packing box for packing them are attached with a non-contact IC tag, and article delivery management is performed based on data written to the tags. About the system.

In recent years, with regard to the management of ATMs (Automatic Tellers Machines) installed in and outside financial institutions of financial institutions and cash processing machines for sales proceeds, customer deposits and collection of sales proceeds, cash processing machine changes Outsourcing that outsources the preparation of the company to the outside is becoming more common. Generally, it is entrusted to a cash transport company, a guard transporter (guard), who manages everything from cash transport, fund management, management of human and equipment costs for operations, and collection and collection operations. ing.
Among these, cash collection and delivery operations must be carried out particularly accurately and efficiently. For cash collection and delivery operations, the cash processing center (hereinafter referred to as cash) collects cash cassettes from cash processing machines installed at each store, performs counting, and creates a change reserve for business the following day. It is called the center.) After the cash is settled at the cash center, and then the change cash reserve is efficiently loaded into the collected cash cassette (see Patent Document 2), it is shipped from the cash center and installed again at each store. It has become a general business flow to set in a cash processing machine.

However, the cash center takes out cash (sales) from thousands of cash cassettes collected from many contracted stores, counts and settles it, and prepares changes for each store in preparation for the next business day. There is an exit preparation process for making money, filling it in a cash cassette and delivering it to the store again. The change reserve is prepared by putting banknotes and coins in separate cassettes, and placing the two cassettes in one container (packing box) and delivering them to each store. Therefore, the delivery destination of the container and the delivery destination of the contents cassette must always match, but since the cassette is in the container, it cannot be seen from the outside, and the package is opened for confirmation. There was a need. There is no problem if the packaging box can be easily opened, but in the case of a packaging box that cannot be reused once unpacked.
Therefore, by attaching an electronic tag (wireless) to both the packing box and its contents, and collating the data read from each tag, the items in the packing box can be removed without unpacking the packing box. Techniques for confirmation have been proposed (see, for example, Patent Documents 1 and 2).
However, the techniques of Patent Documents 1 and 2 both write data read from an electronic tag attached to an article into an electronic tag attached to a packaging box, and have the following problems. That is, since the data is written in the electronic tag of the item first, if two or more items having different data contents (for example, delivery destination) are accidentally put in the same packing box, they are written later. The data of the electronic tag of the packaging box and the data of the electronic tag of the article do not completely match. Therefore, some articles may be delivered to the wrong delivery destination.
Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-324405 JP 2002-37413 A Japanese Patent No. 2608147

  The present invention has been made in view of the above-described problems, and the delivery address written on the electronic tag of the packaging box always matches the delivery address written on the electronic tag of the article as the contents. An object of the present invention is to provide such an article delivery management system.

  The present invention is an article delivery management system for managing a delivery of a delivery object by attaching a data carrier to the delivery object, and the object of the present invention is the first attached to each article that is a delivery object. 1 data carrier, a second data carrier attached to a packaging box delivered in a state where a plurality of articles are stored, and data written in the second data carrier are read out from the data A common attribute information extracting unit for extracting common attribute information about the article; and a writing unit for writing the extracted common attribute information to the first data carrier, wherein a plurality of the articles are stored in the packing box. This is achieved by writing the extracted common attribute information to the first data carrier in a state.

  Further, the object of the present invention is to set the common attribute information as a delivery destination and / or an article name, or at least of data stored internally on the surface of the second data carrier. This is achieved effectively by printing the common attribute information so as to be visible.

  According to the article delivery management system of the present invention, after storing a plurality of articles in a packaging box, the delivery destination information is read from an IC tag attached to the packaging box, and the IC tags of the plurality of articles in the inside Therefore, all the delivery destination information written in the IC tag of each article is the same.

In the present invention, when a plurality of articles are delivered in a single packing box, IC tags capable of reading and writing data in a non-contact manner are attached to the articles to be packed, and information on the articles in the package is not required to be unpacked. (Delivery destination, article name, etc.) and by attaching a similar IC tag to the packaging box and printing the information of the inside article visibly on the surface of the IC tag, Furthermore, management is made easier.
In addition, when multiple items in the product have a common attribute (for example, when all items are delivered to the same location, the product names are all the same), the attribute information of the items is written in a lump after packing. In view of the fact that it is more efficient and that other items are not mixed, in the present invention, the common attribute information of the article is previously written in the IC tag attached to the packaging box, and the article is stored in the packaging box. Later, the information is read from the IC tag of the packing box, and the information is written to the IC tag of each article inside.

Hereinafter, an article delivery management system according to the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings. In the present embodiment, an example is described in which an article to be delivered is a cash cassette stored in a container which is a packing box, and a data carrier attached to them is a non-contact type wireless IC tag. To do.
FIG. 1 shows an example of a block diagram of an article delivery management system according to the present invention, in which two cash cassettes 20 (for banknotes = 20a, for coins = 20b) are stored in a container 10 which is a packing box. IC tags 11 and 21 are attached to the container 10 and the cash cassette 20, respectively. The antenna 30 forms part of a reader / writer 40 that reads and writes data in a contactless manner with respect to the IC tags 11 and 21, and the management personal computer 50 stores the data read from the container tag 11 into the cassette tag 21. Data to be written (common attribute information) is extracted and written to the cassette tag 21. The reason for extracting the data to be written is that the amount of money (total amount) information in the container among the data written in the container tag 11 is not information common to the two cassettes, so it is necessary to exclude them. Because there is. In the management personal computer 50, the format of data stored in the container tag 11 is registered in advance, and it is programmed in advance which part of the read data is to be extracted. Information is written to the cassette tag 21 by the reader / writer 40 in accordance with the program. Needless to say, the container is made of a material (for example, made of plastic) that allows electromagnetic waves to pass therethrough in order to read / write data from / to the cassette tag inside without contact.

  FIG. 2 is a perspective view showing that two cash cassettes (20a for banknotes and 20b for coins) are stored in the container 10. FIG. The surface of the container tag 11 affixed to the container 10 is printed with a delivery destination (“Gotanda store”) and a truck travel route (“A route”) so that it can be visually confirmed. 21 is also written.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a process (delivery preparation process) to which the article delivery management system according to the present invention is actually applied in a cash center, and the process flow will be described based on this figure.
First, in the cash center, based on the change preparation information of the denomination contacted by some method (not particularly mentioned because it is not directly related to the invention of the present application) from each store that is a customer who has a consignment contract, A change reserve for each store is created. The system described in Patent Document 3 can be used to create a change reserve. As a result, the necessary amount of money is divided into banknotes and coins, prepared, put into a predetermined tray, and sent to the next shipping preparation process. At this time, store information (and information such as a delivery route) is written and a printed container tag 11 is created at the same time and put in the tray together with cash.

  In this step, as shown in FIG. 3, change reserves for each store placed in a tray are packed into empty banknote cassettes 20a and coin cassettes 20b, respectively, and two cash cassettes 20 are put together into one container 10. Then, the container tag 11 (printed together with the data) that has been printed in advance and attached to the container 10 is pasted. Store name and delivery route data are written in the container tag 11, and the store name and delivery route are printed on the surface thereof. This printing is preferably performed by a method such as thermal printing so that it can be rewritten.

A cassette tag 21 is attached to the cash cassette 20, and cassette management information including cassette-specific identification information (such as a serial number) and a cassette type (banknote / coin) is written in advance. However, the cassette-specific identification information cannot be erased. This is because identification information unique to the cassette is required to manage which cassette is currently located.
Writing of delivery destination store information, delivery route information, processing date and time information, etc. to the cassette tag 21 is performed in a state of being put in the container 10. That is, as shown in FIG. 3, the reader / writer 40 reads the data from the container tag 11 affixed to the side surface of the container 10 placed on the work table via the antenna 30, and the management personal computer 50 stores the store name and Information on the delivery route is extracted, information such as processing date and time is added thereto, and the information is written in the cassette tag 21 in the container 10.

Control of these processes is automatically performed by a control program stored in the management personal computer 50. FIG. 4 shows the process flow.
The flow of processing will be described based on FIG. The information described in the container tag is assumed to be a store name, a delivery route, and a total amount to be delivered.
The container tag information is read from the antenna 30 to the management personal computer 50 via the reader / writer 40 (step S1). Next, store name information is first extracted from the three types of information read (step S2). It is determined whether this is common attribute information. This determination is made, for example, by making a promise that the common attribute information is preliminarily given some code indicating that it is common attribute information at the end of the data, and checking the end of the read information. Also good.
If it is determined that the store name information is common attribute information, it is extracted as common attribute information and temporarily stored in the memory (step S3). Next, delivery route information is extracted (step S4), and it is determined whether or not it is common attribute information. Similarly, if the common attribute information is determined, it is extracted as common attribute information and temporarily stored in the memory (step S3). Next, the total amount information is extracted (step S4), and it is determined whether or not it is common attribute information. Since the total amount information is not common attribute information and there is no other information, the process proceeds to step S5 and the common attribute information (store name, delivery route) extracted in the first cassette tag (for example, bill cassette) is written. Next, the same information is written in the coin cassette tag in the same manner.

When the data read from the container tag 11 is normally written in the cassette tag 21, the container 10 is sorted by delivery route, loaded on a pallet, etc., and waits for delivery. At this time, information printed on the container tag 11 is used for confirmation.
The information written in the cassette tag 21 may be sent to a management server (not shown) connected so as to be communicable with the management personal computer 50 for management. In this way, it is possible to search from which other terminal connected to the management server which cassette has been delivered to where.

  As mentioned above, although the delivery management of the cash cassette in the cash center has been described as an example for the article delivery management system, the present invention is not only applied to the delivery management of the cash cassette in the cash center, and generally collects and delivers the distribution items. The present invention can also be applied to distribution management of distribution items at a center or the like.

1 shows an example of a block configuration diagram of an article delivery management system according to the present invention. FIG. It is a perspective view which shows that two cash cassettes (20a for banknotes, 20b for coins) are stored in the container. It is a figure which shows the process (ship preparation process) where the goods delivery management system which concerns on this invention is actually applied in a cash center. It is a figure which shows the flow of a process in the management personal computer.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 Container 11 Container tag 20 Cash cassette 21 Cassette tag 30 Antenna 40 Reader / writer 50 Management personal computer

Claims (5)

An article delivery management system for managing delivery of a delivery object by attaching a data carrier to the delivery object,
A first data carrier attached to each article to be delivered;
A second data carrier attached to a packaging box delivered in a state where a plurality of the articles are stored;
Common attribute information extracting means for reading data written on the second data carrier and extracting common attribute information about the article from the data;
Writing means for writing the extracted common attribute information to the first data carrier;
With
The article delivery management system, wherein the extracted common attribute information is written in the first data carrier in a state where a plurality of articles are stored in the packing box.   The article delivery management system according to claim 1, wherein the common attribute information is a delivery destination.   3. The article delivery management system according to claim 1, wherein at least the common attribute information among the data stored therein is visibly printed on the surface of the second data carrier. .   4. The article delivery management system according to claim 1, wherein the first and second data carriers are contactless wireless IC tags.   The article delivery management system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein the delivery object is a cash cassette in which bills or coins are stored.

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