JP2013254362A - Commodity registration device and program - Google Patents

Abstract

PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To solve the problem that a transaction file does not record that a shortage quantity of commodities is handled as a quantity of customer-ordered commodities.SOLUTION: A commodity registration device includes; an input device for acquiring an identification code; a generation unit for generating a piece of transaction data including commodity information in one transaction on the basis of the identification code acquired by the input device; a storage unit for storing multiple pieces of transaction data generated by the generation unit for each transaction; an adding unit for adding customer order status information indicating that it is a commodity ordered by a customer to a piece of transaction data in the storage unit by linking the information to the piece of transaction data.

Description

  One embodiment relates to a commodity registration apparatus and a program.

  A POS (Point Of Sales) terminal registers sales data of products purchased by customers and declares the end of registration of customer purchased products sold as one transaction (see, for example, Patent Document 1). 2. Description of the Related Art Conventionally, there is known a POS system that issues a voucher printed on a normal receipt when ordering an out-of-stock item (see, for example, Patent Document 2). An information processing apparatus that performs electronic book entry processing is known (see, for example, Patent Document 3).

JP 2011-90375 A JP 11-16049 A JP 2002-32699 A

  However, if a customer purchases more products than the inventory at the store, and the store first receives only the price from the customer and the store tries to handle the shortage of products, the shortage of products What is handled as a customer order is not recorded in the transaction file. Customer order means that the product is received from the customer. A transaction file refers to file data in which a plurality of transaction data representing transaction contents are recorded over time.

  For example, it is assumed that only five gums (chewing gums) are in stock at the store as actual products. When the customer purchases 10 gums at the cash register in advance, the store registers the sales of 10 gums at the POS terminal. The store treats the remaining 5 gums as a customer. For example, the store issues handwritten invoices for the remaining five gums. Despite the fact that the payment is made in the POS terminal in terms of data, this transaction results in a situation where the remaining five in-stock gum stocks are missing. Even if 10 gum sales registrations exist in the data, the POS terminal registers in the transaction file that at the time of sales registration, 5 gums for shortage that are not in stock are handled as customers. Can not do it.

  In order to solve such a problem, according to one embodiment, an input device that acquires an identification code, and transaction data including product information in one transaction are generated based on the identification code acquired by the input device. A generating unit, a storage unit storing a plurality of transaction data generated by the generating unit for each transaction, and a customer indicating that the product is a customer-ordered product ordered by a customer in the transaction data of the storage unit A product registration device is provided that includes a granting unit that links and grants note status information to the transaction data.

  According to another embodiment, the computer has a function of acquiring an identification code, a function of generating transaction data including product information in one transaction based on the identification code, and a plurality of generated transaction data For each transaction, and a function for giving customer status information indicating that the product is a customer-ordered product ordered by a customer linked to the transaction data of the storage device. A program to be executed is provided.

It is a perspective view of the merchandise registration apparatus concerning an embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a registration screen of the indicator of the goods registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment. It is a figure which shows the example of a registration screen after the customer order declaration key by the indicator of the goods registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment is pressed down. It is a block diagram of the principal part composition which made the main part the control system of the goods registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the merchandise registration process of the merchandise registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment. It is a some figure which shows an example of the buffer area | region used for the goods registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the fastening process of the goods registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment. It is a flowchart for demonstrating the customer order registration process of the goods registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment. It is a figure which shows the area | region of the customer order status information of the transaction data memorize | stored in the memory | storage part of the goods registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment. It is a figure which shows the correspondence between the registration screen of the indicator of the goods registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment, a memory | storage part, and a printer output. It is a several figure which shows the example of the customer order status information by the goods registration apparatus which concerns on embodiment.

  Hereinafter, a product registration apparatus according to an embodiment will be described with reference to FIGS. In the drawings, the same portions are denoted by the same reference numerals, and redundant description is omitted.

  FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a product registration apparatus according to an embodiment. The POS terminal 10 (product registration device) is input by a scanner 11 (input device) for reading a barcode (identification code), a keyboard 12 (input device) having a numeric keypad, scanning by the scanner 11 and an operation on the keyboard 12. And a cashier display 13 (input device, display) having a touch panel for displaying the received information. The POS terminal 10 includes a product master file storage unit 14 that stores a product master file in which product information is registered in association with a product code, a product master file stored in the product master file storage unit 14, and a scanner. And a generation unit 15 that generates transaction data including product information in one transaction using data obtained as a result of reading 11 and a bar code specified by touch input to the cashier display 13.

  Product information refers to product code, product name, unit sales price, and the like. The product master file is a file that stores basic data of one product, and has a file structure in which a product name, a unit price, a department code, and the like are associated with each product code of the product. Transaction data refers to file data representing a record of a single commercial transaction with a customer, and has a data structure including a product code, a sales score, a sales price, and the like of each product sold and sold in a single transaction. The customer order status information refers to a data flag indicating that the product is a customer-ordered product ordered by the customer.

  Further, the POS terminal 10 includes a transaction file storage unit 16 (storage unit) that stores a transaction file for registering a plurality of transaction data generated by the generation unit 15 for each transaction, and customer transaction status information in the transaction data. And a granting unit 17 that links and grants. The POS terminal 10 further includes an information processing unit 18 that performs product registration and main control, a customer surface display 19 that faces the customer surface, a printer 20 that prints a receipt, and a drawer 21.

  The scanner 11 optically reads a barcode attached to a product, decodes a code symbol, and acquires code data. The barcode is, for example, a JAN code which is a 13-digit number string or an in-store code which is a 26-digit number string.

  The keyboard 12 has a cancel key for declaring cancellation of the merchandise sales data registered immediately before, and a deposit / cash key for declaring the end of registration of one transaction by cash payment. This deposit / cash key tells the generation unit 15 to close.

  The cashier display 13 is a display that also serves as an input device in which a touch panel is provided on a panel that uses liquid crystal or organic EL (electroluminescence) elements as display pixels. An example of the registration screen is shown in FIGS.

  FIG. 2 is a diagram showing an example of a registration screen of the cashier display 13. The above described symbols represent the same elements. The registration screen displayed by the cashier display 13 includes a registration screen 22 for displaying the currently registered current product information by shifting from bottom to top in order, and a customer order declaration key located on the right side of the registration screen 22 23. The registration screen 22 includes a current area 25 for displaying the latest product registration information, a detail area 24 for displaying a list of transaction details registered as one transaction, and a total area 26 for displaying the total amount and the total score of one transaction. And have. The customer order declaration key 23 is a key for registering that the product is handled as a customer order on the data. If a customer purchases more products than the actual number of items in stock, and the store first receives only the price from the customer and the store tries to handle the shortage of products, the cashier declares this customer order Press the key 23. When the customer order declaration key 23 is touch-selected, the cashier display 13 displays the process of customer order registration for the product on the registration screen 22.

  FIG. 3 is a diagram showing an example of a registration screen by the cashier display 13 after the customer order declaration key 23 is pressed. The above described symbols represent the same elements. For example, in the current area 25, the cashier display 13 displays product information related to the customer-ordered product “chewing gum” and a mark 36 indicating that sales are registered in a receipt or transaction file in the absence of stock. . In the example shown in the figure, the cashier 13 displays that the mark 36 has been registered as a customer order such as an order on the data for the product with the mark “◎”. .

  The product master file storage unit 14 in FIG. 1 stores product information such as product name, product code, and unit price. The product master file is downloaded in advance from a store computer (not shown) to the product master file storage unit 14.

  The generation unit 15 generates transaction data including product information in one transaction. The generation unit 15 or the controller of the scanner 11 searches the product master file based on the code data from the scanner 11 to identify the product, and reads the product single product data. The generation unit 15 has a calculation function, and registers the product score and price based on the single product data. The generation unit 15 causes the cashier display 13 to display single product information such as a product name, a product code, and a unit price of the product.

  The transaction file storage unit 16 stores transaction data by associating product information and deposit amount information for each transaction. The transaction file storage unit 16 stores sales information (purchased product, quantity, total amount, etc.) for one transaction in association with the transaction number. The generation unit 15 writes the transaction data as one record in the transaction file storage unit 16 by associating the product code, the product name, the selling price, the number of sales, the time, and the like.

  The assigning unit 17 searches the transaction file storage unit 16 at the timing when the customer order declaration key 23 is pressed, and assigns the customer order status information in association with the transaction data. The information processing unit 18 reads and writes data for overall control and product registration processing.

  FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a main configuration mainly composed of the control system of the POS terminal 10. The above described symbols represent the same elements. The POS terminal 10 has a CPU (central processing unit) 41, a ROM (read only memory) 42 that stores a program (program according to the embodiment) for operating the CPU 41 as the POS terminal 10, and a work area. A random access memory (RAM) 43, a hard disk drive 44 having storage areas for a merchandise master file storage unit 14 and a transaction file storage unit 16, and a bus line 45 are provided. These CPU 41, ROM 42, and RAM 43 constitute the information processing unit 18.

  The ROM 42 causes the computer to execute the following functions. A function for acquiring a barcode by the scanner 11 or the like. A function that generates transaction data including product information in one transaction based on a barcode. A function of storing a plurality of generated transaction data in a storage device such as the hard disk drive 44 for each transaction. A function that links customer status information to transaction data.

  Further, the POS terminal 10 includes a clock circuit (timer circuit) 27 for clocking the date and time, a communication interface 28 for data communication with the store computer, an I / O port 29 for notifying the drawer 21 of an opening command, and a keyboard 12 A keyboard controller 30 for reading operation key signals and a touch panel controller 31 (display control unit) for acquiring a touch position on the screen of the cashier display 13 are provided. The touch panel controller 31 displays a registration screen showing the contents of one transaction, and causes the cashier display 13 to display a customer order declaration key 23 for starting the process of giving customer order status information on the registration screen. The touch panel controller 31 may display a mark 36 such as a mark “◎” indicating customer order status information in association with the product name on the registration screen. The POS terminal 10 further includes a display controller 32 for the customer display 19, a printer controller 33 for the printer 20, a scanner controller 34 for the scanner 11, and a mode for instructing the POS terminal 10 to switch the business mode. And a switch 35.

  1 displays transaction details such as product name, unit price and quantity, and transaction results such as total amount, deposit amount and change amount. The printer 20 prints a mark 36 indicating customer order status information on the receipt in association with the product name. The printer 20 prints the mark 36 represented by the mark “◎” on the receipt paper. The drawer 21 accommodates cash.

  The POS terminal 10 having the above configuration uses the mode switch 35 to set the operation mode of the POS terminal 10 to the registration mode for sales registration processing. The cashier takes the product from the customer's shopping basket in the checkout lane. The POS terminal 10 starts a product registration process at the timing when a scan by the scanner 11 or a key operation on the keyboard 12 is input.

  For example, suppose that when a store has a sufficient number of gums as actual products, a customer tries to purchase 10 gums and other products with sufficient inventory. The POS terminal 10 registers the sales of these gums and other products by the casher operation.

  FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining the merchandise registration process of the POS terminal 10. This process is executed by the CPU 41 using a program in the ROM 42.

  In Act A1, the CPU 41 clears the value of each buffer area in the display area of the registration screen 22 shown in FIGS. The correspondence between each display area in FIG. 2 and FIG. 3 and each buffer area will be described with reference to FIG.

  FIG. 6A to FIG. 6E are a plurality of diagrams showing an example of the buffer area of the RAM 43, respectively. The above described symbols represent the same elements. The POS terminal 10 reserves in the RAM 43 in advance a previous registration buffer area 37, transaction details buffer area 38, total buffer area 39, and edit buffer area 40. 6A stores data displayed in the current area 25 (FIGS. 2 and 3). The immediately preceding registration buffer area 37 stores the latest product code input as the product registration of one transaction and the data of the product name, department, unit price, sales point, and amount of the product identified by this product code.

  For example, for 10 “gum”, in Act A2 of FIG. 5, the CPU 41 searches the product master file by the product code of “Gum”, acquires the product name, etc., and in Act A3, for example, “Gum” Data indicating that the sales number of the product code is “10” is taken into the immediately preceding registration buffer area 37.

  In Act A4, the cashier display 13 displays the product name, the number of sales, and the sales price in the immediately preceding registration buffer area 37 in the current area 25 in response to a display command from the CPU 41 to the touch panel controller 31. In Act A5, the CPU 41 determines whether or not a new product code has been input. If there is an input, that is, if another product code to be purchased is input, the CPU 41 performs the process of Act A2 through the N route.

  Thereafter, the CPU 41 executes the processes from Act A2 to Act A5 each time a product code is input. The CPU 41 registers a product for one or more types of other products with sufficient inventory other than “gum”.

  The transaction details buffer area 38 shown in FIG. 6B displays data displayed in the details area 24. This transaction detail buffer area 38 stores each data of product code, product name, department, unit price, number of sales points, and amount of money as sales data of all products registered as one transaction in the order of record numbers. The product code, the number, etc. of ten “gum” and the product code, the number, etc. of the product other than “gum” are stored.

  If the CPU 41 determines in Act A5 that no new product code has been input, the Y route is passed, and in Act A6, the CPU 41 performs a total display process. In Act A6, the CPU 41 sums up the sales points stored in the transaction details buffer area 38 and the sales points stored in the immediately preceding registration buffer area 37, and the total sales amount in the transaction details buffer area 38 and the immediately preceding registration buffer. The total sales amount in area 37 is added. The cashier display 13 displays the total number of sales points, the total sales amount, the tax amount, and the like in the total area 26.

  FIG. 7 is a flowchart for explaining the tightening process. After the closing key is input to the POS terminal 10 by the cashier operation in Act C1, a change calculation is performed in Act C2. In Act C3, the CPU 41 causes the cashier display 13 to display the change amount.

  The total buffer area 39 shown in FIG. 6C stores transaction information. The total buffer area 39 stores the number of sales points, the total discount amount, the subtotal amount, the tax amount, the billing amount, the deposit amount, and the change amount. The data stored in the total buffer area 39 is data displayed in the total area 26. For example, data about 10 gums and other products are displayed. Subsequently, in Act C4, the CPU 41 creates data to be printed based on the contents of the transaction details buffer area 38 and causes the printer 20 to print this data. In Act C5, the CPU 41 opens the drawer 21. The CPU 41 finishes one transaction process.

  The above is an explanation of a normal product registration process, and an example has been described in which a stock of ten gums that a customer intends to purchase exists in the store.

  Next, an example will be described in which five out of ten gums that a customer intends to purchase exist in the store and the remaining five are registered for customer order. For example, a cashier is told by a customer in the checkout lane that he wants to buy only 10 “gum”, that he has only 5 gum stock, and that he will pay the cash for 10 gums on the spot. Suppose. The cashier asks the customer to purchase five actual gums and verbally informs that the remaining five gums will be contacted by phone or deliver five actual gums upon receipt. The cashier performs an operation for custom-registering five gums corresponding to the shortage to the POS terminal 10.

  First, the CPU 41 performs the same process as the process of Act A1 of FIG. 5 to clear the values of the immediately preceding registration buffer area 37, transaction detail buffer area 38, total buffer area 39, and edit buffer area 40. Next, the cashier touches the customer order declaration key 23. The processing of the CPU 41 when the customer order declaration key 23 is pressed will be described.

  FIG. 8 is a flowchart for explaining the customer order registration process. In Act D1, for example, when registering a product, when the CPU 41 detects that the customer order declaration key 23 is pressed, the screen displayed on the cashier display 13 in Act D2 is changed from the example of FIG. 2 to the example of FIG. Let them switch. In Act D3, the scanner 11 scans the JAN code from the actual gum packaging by the cashier operation. The CPU 41 obtains the gum product code from the product master file and writes it in the immediately preceding registration buffer area 37. In Act D4, the CPU 41 writes the gum data, which is the actual product stored in the immediately preceding registration buffer area 37, into the editing buffer area 40. FIG. 6D shows the editing buffer area 40 when customer order registration is not performed, and FIG. 6E shows the editing buffer area 40 when customer order registration is performed.

  The editing buffer area 40 shown in FIG. 6D is an area for storing data stored in the immediately preceding registration buffer area 37 or the total buffer area 39 in an editable state. The edit buffer area 40 has an area 46 for storing customer order status information (indicated as customer order status in the figure) indicating that the customer order declaration key 23 has been operated on the product. For example, as shown in the example of FIG. 5, before the customer order declaration process is performed for a product that is a normal transaction in which the number of stocks is sufficient, for example, a value indicating “none” is displayed in this area 46. The generation unit 15 is writing.

  On the other hand, in Act D4 (FIG. 8), as shown in FIG. 6E, the CPU 41 (generating unit 15) adds the mark “◎” to the data registered after the declaration by the customer order declaration key 23 in the editing buffer area 40. Customer order status information corresponding to the mark 36 such as. In Act D5, the CPU 41 causes the cashier display 13 to display the gum product information together with the mark 36 on the current area 25 (see FIG. 3). In Act D6, the CPU 41 takes in the order quantity input by the cashier by the keyboard 12. The number information input in Act D6 is the number of gums “5” for the shortage. In Act D7, the CPU 41 writes and registers product information data and customer order status information in the transaction file storage unit 16 in the editing buffer area 40.

  FIG. 9 is a diagram showing a region of customer order status information of transaction data. In the figure, the above-described symbols represent the same elements. As shown in FIG. 9, the transaction file storage unit 16 records the nth record in the storage area having the head address “0001”, and records the (n + 1) th record in the storage area having the head address “0002”. The results of all transactions are memorized over time. When the product by the customer order declaration has been registered, for example, product information is recorded for each product registered by the nth record, the customer order declaration, and the customer order status information is set as necessary. The transaction file storage unit 16 stores the customer order status information linked to the product information for each product in one transaction and stores it in the area 46. In other words, the customer order status information is generated as electronic data.

  Specifically, the value “1” in the area 46 indicates that the product is in the customer order state. The value “0” in the area 46 indicates that the merchandise is sold by a normal transaction unlike the customer ordering. In this example, it is assumed that customer order declaration items such as a product 1 with a unit price of 100 yen and a product 2 with a unit price of 200 yen are treated as customer orders. The customer declaration item refers to a product registered by the customer declaration. Customer order status information is also added to sales data for a total of 300 yen. The contents of the transaction, such as how it was processed for one customer, fall to the transaction file storage unit 16. It is registered in the transaction file that the products 1 and 2 have been paid for and that the products 1 and 2 are treated as customers.

  8, the CPU 41 creates data to be printed based on the customer order item data stored in the editing buffer area 40 and causes the printer 20 to print this data.

  FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the correspondence between the registration screen 22, the transaction file storage unit 16, and the receipt printing surface. The above described symbols represent the same elements. As shown in FIGS. 9 and 10, the CPU 41 prints out all the subtotal, total, and current total data of one transaction read from the transaction data. The printer 20 issues the receipt 48 with the product name “tampin” marked with “◎”. Further, in the above processing, the CPU 41 may display information on the customer display 19 as in the example of the cashier display 13.

  FIG. 11A is a diagram illustrating an example of customer order status information of gum on data, and FIG. 11B is a diagram illustrating an example of customer status information output as a receipt. For example, “◎ Chewing Gum 000015 Single 120 5 600” is stored in the current area 25. The receipt 48 displays five “1 JAN 000015 ◎ chewing gum ¥ 120” (the chewing gum is shown as gum in FIG. 5B).

  In the conventional example, when only 5 chewing gums were in stock at the store as the actual product, if the customer purchased 10 gums in advance, the remaining 5 gums were treated as customers. However, according to the POS terminal 10, the data is registered in the POS terminal 10. In the conventional example, a person has issued a customer order slip by hand. However, in the POS terminal 10, the transaction file contains data indicating that the product has been paid and that the product has been treated as a customer order. It will be registered as. In addition, the transaction file indicates that there are sales results for 10 products, that the products for the number of stocks have been sold out, that there are insufficient products and that these products are treated as customers. It is registered in the storage unit 16.

  In a situation where a customer purchases a number of products exceeding the number in stock, and the customer has paid only the price first, the POS terminal 10 can perform sales registration and customer order registration for the shortage of products. Since the customer order status information is output to the sales transaction data and printed on the receipt 48, the customer side and the store side can confirm that the product is a customer order product. A customer injection system is established.

  As a result, when the JAN code is registered, the status that is out of stock and is a customer order can be output to the transaction data. Data with customer order status information can be used as data for subsequent order processing. Order processing and the like can be automated without managing customer orders with conventional handwritten slips. Paperless at stores is possible, and processing can be speeded up.

  The product registration device may be configured as an ECR (electronic cash register) other than the POS terminal 10.

  In the above embodiment, the customer order declaration key 23 is operated at the time of product registration in FIG. 5, but the customer order registration may be performed before the start of product registration by the POS terminal 10 or after product registration.

  In the above embodiment, the mark 36 is represented by the mark “◎”, but it goes without saying that the mark 36 may take various shapes and layouts.

  The display layouts of FIGS. 2 and 3 can be variously changed. The superiority of the merchandise registration apparatus according to the present embodiment is not impaired at all with respect to an implementation product that is simply implemented by changing the layout and display contents.

  In the above embodiment, a 13-digit standard code may be used as the JAN code as an example of the product identification code, or an 8-digit abbreviated code may be used. As the identification code, in addition to the JAN code, an EAN (European Articulation Association) or a UPC (Universal Product Code) may be used. The POS terminal 10 may be used in combination with cash and a card by providing a card reader for the card and providing a keyboard key on the keyboard 12 for declaring the end of registration of one transaction by credit payment.

  Although several embodiments have been described, these embodiments have been presented by way of example and are not intended to limit the scope of the invention. These embodiments can be implemented in various other forms, and various omissions, replacements, and changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the invention. These embodiments and their modifications are included in the scope and gist of the invention, and are also included in the invention described in the claims and the equivalents thereof.

  DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... POS terminal (product registration apparatus), 11 ... Scanner, 12 ... Keyboard, 13 ... Cashier display (input device, display), 14 ... Product master file storage unit, 15 ... Generation unit, 16 ... Transaction file storage Part (storage part), 17 ... giving part, 18 ... information processing part, 19 ... customer display, 20 ... printer, 21 ... drawer, 22 ... registration screen, 23 ... customer declaration key, 24 ... detail area, 25 ... Current area, 26 ... Total area, 27 ... Clock circuit, 28 ... Communication interface, 29 ... I / O port, 30 ... Keyboard controller, 31 ... Touch panel controller, 32 ... Display controller, 33 ... Printer controller, 34 ... Scanner controller 35 ... mode switch 36 ... mark 37 ... last registered buffer area 38 ... transaction details Buffer area, 39 ... Total buffer area, 40 ... Editing buffer area, 41 ... CPU, 42 ... ROM, 43 ... RAM, 44 ... Hard disk drive (storage device), 45 ... Bus line 46 ... Customer order status information, 48 ... Receipt .

Claims (6)

An input device for obtaining an identification code;
A generating unit that generates transaction data including product information in one transaction based on the identification code acquired by the input device;
A storage unit that stores a plurality of transaction data generated by the generation unit for each transaction;
A granting unit for linking and giving customer status information indicating that the product is a customer-ordered product ordered by a customer to the transaction data of the storage unit;
A product registration device comprising: A printer for printing receipts;
The product registration apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the printer prints a mark indicating the customer order status information in association with a product name on the receipt. An indicator,
A display control unit for displaying a registration screen showing the contents of the one transaction on the display, and displaying a customer order declaration key for starting the process of giving the customer order status information on the registration screen;
The product registration device according to claim 1, comprising: An indicator,
A display control unit for displaying a registration screen indicating the contents of the one transaction on the display unit, and displaying a mark indicating the customer order status information in association with a product name on the registration screen;
The product registration device according to claim 1, comprising:   The product registration apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the storage unit has an area for storing the customer order status information for each product in the one transaction. On the computer,
A function to obtain an identification code;
A function of generating transaction data including product information in one transaction based on the identification code;
A function of storing a plurality of generated transaction data in a storage device for each transaction;
A function of linking customer status information indicating that the product is a customer-ordered product ordered by a customer to the transaction data of the storage device;
A program that executes

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