JP2676671B2 - Product management method - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a product management method capable of specifying the position of a product.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art As is well known, a point-of-sale information in which a tag in which various kinds of data such as product types are recorded is attached to a corresponding product and the product sales data is managed based on the various data generated when the product is sold. A management system (hereinafter referred to as POS) has been introduced. Retail stores that have introduced POS are
Product sales data such as sold products, sales quantity, and sales time are totaled, and sales data and purchase data are obtained based on these totaled results.

Although various data can be obtained by introducing POS, in recent years, sales forecasts have been made in order to identify selling products and establish a sales system. Sales forecasts are made based on product sales data obtained for each season and time period.

[0004]

As described above, the POS
Various data have been obtained by introducing, and sales forecasts are made based on these data. Furthermore, in recent years, sales forecasts have been made even at the positions where products are displayed, and it has been attempted to improve the sales efficiency by specifying the positions to be displayed. When specifying the display position, it is necessary to know where the sold product was displayed. But the current P
The OS does not even specify the display position of the sold product.

Further, in the current POS, since sales data and the like are collected in a server or a host computer which is separated from the sales floor, these servers or host computers require a large capacity memory. Further, since the sales data and the like are stored in a device separated from the sales floor, there is an inconvenience that the sales data must be separated from the sales floor in order to refer to the data.

[0006] There are a wide variety of products to be displayed,
In addition, each product is not always displayed in the same place.
For this reason, it is difficult to grasp the display position of the desired product, especially when the product is frequently rearranged.
Furthermore, like the sale of a product, it is difficult to know the storage position of a desired product even when the product is stored.

Therefore, the present invention has been made in view of the above circumstances, and provides a merchandise management system capable of specifying the position of merchandise displayed or stored and easily referring to various data. To aim.

[0008]

A product management method according to the present invention stores and holds at least total product data, product name data and position data of displayed products,
A storage unit that can read and write these data by an external mobile terminal is arranged at the location of the product, and is connected to a POS terminal that constructs a current POS (point-of-sale system), and product name data associated with the product is stored. The POS
When the POS terminal is registered in the terminal, the POS terminal obtains the position data of the registered product by referring to the storage means, manages the display position of the product, and counts down the number of the registered products. The total number is managed by the storage means. Furthermore, when the storage means includes an externally recognizable display means and specifies the location of the product, the product name data is transmitted to the storage device by an external mobile terminal connectable to the storage device, When the stored product name data and the transmitted product name data match, the display means is operated.

[0009]

According to the above-mentioned means according to the present invention, the storage means arranged corresponding to the displayed product stores and holds the product name data and the displayed position data, and the product name is displayed on the POS terminal at the time of sale. When the data is registered, the position data stored and held in the storage means is obtained based on the product name data. Therefore, the display position data of the sold product can be obtained together with the product name, the sales quantity, and the sales time data obtained by the current POS.

Further, in specifying the position of the product using the storage means provided with the display means, the product name data is transmitted to the storage means by a terminal connected to the storage means online or offline, and stored in advance. The product name data that has been transmitted is compared with the transmitted product name data, and when these data match, the display means is operated. The position of the product is specified by finding the storage means in which the display means is operating from among the plurality of arranged storage means.

[0011]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. FIG. 1 shows a system to which the present invention is applied. The POS terminal 101 reads the bar code of the tag attached to the product to obtain product name data, and also obtains quantity data and sales time data of the sold product. These data are transferred to the host computer 105 via the server 103 having a communication function.

The host computer 105 manages the sales data at the point of sale in real time based on the name data.
Further, the host computer 105 manages inventory data from sales data for each product. Host computer 10
Data from each store is transferred to 5, and the host computer 105 manages the sales situation of each store based on these data and makes a sales forecast.

Further, this system is based on the POS terminal 101.
It is constructed by a shelf 107 that is online connected to. The shelf 107 has a memory 10 at a predetermined position as a storage unit.
9 is arranged and required data is written or read by the external terminal 111. The shelf 107 will be described below with reference to FIG. Absolute addresses (A, 1) to (C, 3) are set in advance on the shelf 107 that is online connected to the POS terminal 101, and the product is displayed at the position corresponding to the address. Further, a line is arranged on the shelf 107, and a memory 109 is connected at an absolute address position.

The memory 109 can store and hold various data. When the memory 109 is connected to the shelf 107, the absolute address data is stored in the memory. Further, the product name data and the like of the displayed products are written in the memory 109 or read from the memory 109 by the external terminal 111. The external terminal 111 has a data access unit and a data processing unit. The data access unit writes data in the memory 109, or the memory 109
The data processing section has a data input function, a data calculation function, a data display function, a data output function, and a data transfer function.

The operation of the system shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 will be described below. The POS terminal 101 scans the bar code written on the tag to obtain the product name data of the sold product. Further, the POS terminal 101 refers to the memory content of the memory 109 based on the product name data to obtain the absolute address data where the sold product is displayed. POS
The terminal 101 further obtains sales time data and sales quantity data of the product, and transfers these data to the server 103.

Further, the memory 109 stores the total number data of the displayed products, and P is displayed every time the product is sold.
According to the instruction from the OS terminal 101, the number of sold products is counted down. The data in the memory 109 can be read by the external terminal 111, and thus the total number of products displayed can be managed in real time.

Since the total number data of the products displayed in this way is stored in the memory 109, the inventory data of the products can be obtained at the sales floor. Further memory 109
Since various data can be stored and held in the memory, the memory capacity of the host computer 105 or server 103 can be suppressed. Further, since the absolute address and product name data are stored and held in the memory 109, if the display position of the product is unknown, for example, the POS terminal 101
The product can be searched by.

On the other hand, the merchandise displayed on the shelf 107 is not always placed at a fixed position, but is relocated, for example, every season. At this time, along with the movement of the product, the memory 109 connected to the position is also moved. The absolute address of the new position is stored in the memory connected to the new position. As a result, the display position of the product can be always grasped, which is particularly effective when the rearrangement of the product is frequently performed.

Further, the memory 109 may be provided with a display function so that the displayed product names, fixed prices, etc. can be displayed. The display content can be changed by an instruction from the POS terminal 101, and is particularly effective when the list price changes with time. The above-described embodiment has explained the case where the same product is displayed in a single place. When the same product is displayed in a plurality of places, the display position can be specified by attaching a barcode with the display position data attached to the product.

Further, in the above-described embodiment, the case where the memories are connected to the shelves on which the products are displayed has been described. You may make it obtain the layout which showed the display state of goods, and connect memory to each corresponding to the goods displayed on the layout. Further, if the data related to the displayed products, for example, the sales time and the product replenishment date, which are managed by the current POS, are stored in the corresponding coins, the data can be dispersed and the memory capacity can be suppressed.

In the above-described embodiment, the case where each device is connected online is explained, but it may be connected offline. Further, the product management for managing the sold products has been described, but the present invention can be applied to the management and retrieval of the products stored in the warehouse. Hereinafter, a search for stored products will be described with reference to FIG. Memory 10 applied to product search
A first memory 9 stores and holds at least product name data, and a second memory 9 stores and holds data transmitted from the outside.
Memory, a control means for comparing these data, and a display means that operates according to the comparison result, and are arranged for each box in which the product is stored or each rack for storing the box.

Here, the means for transmitting data to the second memory is realized by transferring the data by the terminal connected online or by receiving the data transmitted from the external terminal 111 connected offline. . Hereinafter, the product search using the external terminal 111 will be described. When searching for a product, first, the product name data to be searched is input to the external terminal 111. The product name data is a product name and numerical data corresponding to the product name, and when the product name is input, it is converted into numerical data by the memory of the external terminal 111. The external terminal 111 transmits numerical data, for example, by modulating the infrared light.

The memory 109 receives the transmitted data and stores the data in the second memory. The control unit compares the product name data stored and held in the first memory with the product name data stored and held in the second memory, and when these data match, operates the display means. The display function includes, for example, blinking by a light emitting means or sounding by a buzzer or the like. At this time, the state of the searched product can be grasped by changing the display form. The product state is, for example, a state in which product replenishment, an order is required, a state in which product digestion is good or bad, and a state in which product digestion is peculiar, and the display form is set corresponding to each state. .

Therefore, the memory 1 in which the display means is operating
The required product can be searched by finding 09 (arrow a in the figure), and the state of the product can be recognized by various display forms. In particular, when the memory 109 is arranged in each box, the accommodation position of the box is not limited, and there is an advantage that it is not necessary to accommodate the extracted box in the position.

Further, when the external terminal 111 is used, since it is possible to search for a product while staying at the site, it is possible to improve the efficiency of the search work. When the external terminal 111 is used, in particular, the memory 109 may be provided with a transmission function, the display means may be operated, and various data may be transmitted. In addition to the product status data described above, the various data includes product inventory data and history data, and the external terminal 111 receives various data at the time of search to recognize the status of the searched product. be able to. Further, various data managed by the terminals connected online may be transmitted to the memory 109 and transmitted to the external terminal 111.

Further, when the same product is stored in a plurality of places, the display means of the plurality of memories operate, so that it is possible to grasp the duplicate storage of the product. As a result, it is possible to store the product according to the purpose of sale and the like, and it is possible to find the product stored in a place other than the necessary place, so that the space can be effectively used.

When the same product is stored in a plurality of places, especially when it is desired to search for a product stored in a specific place, input the product name data and the data specifying the storage position. Can be achieved by In the embodiment related to the product search described above, the case where the external terminal 111 transmits the product name data to the memory 109 to perform the product search has been described. However, as shown in FIG. 1, it goes without saying that the POS terminal 101 or a terminal corresponding thereto can transmit the product name data to the memory 109 to search for the product.

In the embodiment described above, the data input means to the terminal is a keyboard input by the 10-array key, a bar code reader, an OCR (optical character reader),
And optical read input by OMR (optical mark reader).

[0029]

According to the invention described above, it is possible to easily specify the display position of sold products and the position of stored products. Therefore, in the storage of products, the stored products can be searched quickly. In addition, when selling products, since the memory exists in the sales floor, various data can be checked without leaving the sales floor. Furthermore, as the products move, the memory can also be moved to manage the product location accurately. And it can be done easily.

Further, since the inventory data and the like managed by the server and the like are dispersed and stored and held in the memory, the memory capacity managed by the server and the like can be suppressed.

[Brief description of the drawings]

FIG. 1 is a construction diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram for explaining a shelf 107 shown in FIG.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram when applied to product search.

[Explanation of symbols]

 101 POS Terminal 103 Server 105 Host Computer 107 Shelf 109 Memory 111 External Terminal

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Claims (2)

(57) [Claims] 1. At least total number data of products, product name data and position data of displayed products are stored and held, and a storage means capable of reading and writing these data by an external mobile terminal is arranged at the location of the products. With
It is connected to a POS terminal that constructs a current POS (point-of-sale system), and the product name data attached to the product is the P
When it is registered in the OS terminal, the number of items that the POS terminal to obtain position data of the product which has been registered with reference to said storage means manages the display position of the quotient <br/> products, and have been registered product management how, characterized in that managed in the storage means the total number of items to count down. 2. The display means capable of being externally recognized by the storage means.
When specifying the location of the product, the product name data is transmitted to the storage device by an external portable terminal connectable to the storage device, and the stored product name data and the transmitted product product are provided. billing when the name data matches the characterized in that so as to operate the display means
Product management how of claim 1, wherein the.