JP6718313B2 - Rear unmanned support system - Google Patents

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention mainly relates to a system for centrally managing rearward operations such as management of change funds and scrutiny and confirmation of sales at stores of a plurality of chain stores such as superstores where POS registers are installed. ..

Various forms have been proposed as a system for centrally managing cash and the like in chain stores and the like. For example, a "cash management system in stores" described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2004-5347 is available. In addition, as a similar system, there is a "cash management system using a POS-linked ATM (ATM) system" described in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2006-155015.

The former system is a cash deposit/withdrawal device provided in the store for depositing/withdrawing cash from a store, an operation management device connected to the cash deposit/withdrawal device via a first network, A server device that is connected to the operation management device via the second network and is managed by a cash transport trustee. Based on balance information of the cash deposit/withdrawal device, cash is sent to the cash transport trustee server device. It is configured to notify that it is necessary to supplement or collect cash in the deposit/withdrawal device. On the other hand, in the latter system, the POS register of the store, the banknote coin depositing/dispensing machine (ATM), and the surveillance camera are connected to the control means, and when the payment is made after the sales registration, the control means is instructed from the POS register. A banknote coin depositing/dispensing machine (ATM) is used for payment and withdrawal processing, and the sales data of the POS register, depositing/dispensing data and operation data of the banknote coin depositing/dispensing machine, and video data of the monitoring camera are managed through a communication line. By being configured to be transmitted to the center, debit card payment by a bank cash card is possible, and sales proceeds for storing, guarding and collecting cash on the store side are managed safely and securely.

JP 2004-5347 A JP, 2006-155015, A

In the conventional system as described above, there is no change in the basic handling of the cash itself, and therefore, for the head office of the store or the chain store, it is necessary to perform the complicated back-office work as in the conventional case. It was still unreliable against human troubles (eg, theft, dressing, loss, counting error, etc.).

Therefore, the present invention centrally manages operations such as cash withdrawal and change replenishment, which have not been taken into consideration in the conventional system. The labor saving of human work can be achieved by significantly reducing the complicated back-office work that requires accuracy, such as the management of sales, scrutiny and confirmation of sales, etc., and there is no room for human trouble. It is intended to provide a system capable of

The rear unmanned support system according to the present invention includes a POS register installed in a store, an automatic change dispenser connected to the POS register, a store server connected to the POS register and the automatic change dispenser, and a communication line to the store server. It is composed of a headquarters server installed at the headquarters, which is connected via a communication server, and a trustee server installed at the cash transport company, which is connected to the headquarters server via a communication line.

The POS register has a code reading device for reading a product identification code attached to a product, an input device for manually inputting various information, and a display device for displaying various information. The POS register extracts the price data of the product corresponding to the product identification code of the product read by the code reading device from the product information read from the product information table of the store server and multiplies the sales quantity to sell the product. An arithmetic processing unit is provided for calculating the price and displaying the selling price on the display device, while sending the selling price data to the automatic change dispenser connected to the POS register.

The automatic change machine stores change cash by denomination, a change cassette for storing inserted cash by denomination, a cash scrutiny device for scrutinizing the deposited cash, and a cash scrutiny device. An arithmetic processing unit for calculating change by collating the carefully examined input amount with the sales price data sent from the POS register, and counting the required cash according to the amount of change calculated by the arithmetic processing unit. And a change-out device for sending the change to the outlet.

The store server records the sales data including the sales data of the POS register whose settlement has been completed and the deposit/withdrawal data representing the deposit/withdrawal of the automatic change machine in the storage device, and at the same time, records the sales data of the automatic change machine with which the sale money is collected. POS settlement data is generated based on the deposit/withdrawal data and the sales data of the POS register, and is transmitted to the headquarters server.

The headquarters server records the received POS settlement data for each POS register of each store in the storage device and transmits the POS settlement data to the trustee server of the cash transport company.

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The fiduciary server installed at the cash transport company is installed in the cash processing center of the cash transport company, and has a cash scrutiny machine for calculating the amount of collected money, and the discrimination of the collected voucher type and calculation of face value. It is connected to a voucher scrutiny machine for performing. The cash scrutiny machine is configured to scrutinize the cash that has been thrown in, sort out the cash, and store it in the storage for each denomination, and sort the cash that has been thrown into the cash scrutiny machine by denomination. Collected money scrutiny data indicating the amount of collected money for each POS register of each store determined by doing is generated and sent to the trustee server. The cash voucher scrutiny machine generates voucher collection data indicating the amount of cash vouchers collected for each POS register of each store, which is determined by carefully examining the type, face value and number of cash vouchers included in the collected sales. Send to the server. The trustee server determines the sales for each POS register of each store by generating balance data based on the POS settlement data for each POS register of each store obtained via the headquarters server and the collected money examination data. , Send the confirmed balance data to the headquarters server.

The rear unmanned support system of the present invention configured as described above collects the sales money from the automatic change machine at the time of the POS register settlement. The POS settlement data for each POS register at the time of collecting the sales proceeds is generated by the store server and sent to the trustee server via the headquarters server. The collected sales money is sent to the cash processing center of the cash transport company, and the cash scrutinizing machine scrutinizes it to determine the amount of money to be collected, and the collected money scrutiny data for each POS register of each store is generated. The trustee server generates balance data based on the POS settlement data and the collected money examination data, determines the sales for each store and each POS register, and sends the confirmed balance data to the headquarters server. To do.

Further, in the rear unmanned support system according to the present invention, a change making machine is installed in a cash processing center of a cash transport company, and a trustee server records change for each POS register of each store. It can also have data. The change data recorded in the change making data is directly updated by the headquarters server and/or the store server connected via the communication line. The trustee server sends the data of this change making data to the change making machine, and causes the change making machine to prepare a change pack containing change of a predetermined number of cash to be distributed to each POS register of each store. The change pack is delivered to each store and replenished with the change received by the automatic change machine.

The backward unmanned support method according to the present invention includes a step of collecting the sales amount of each POS register of each store to a cash processing center of a cash transport company, and the sales data of each POS register of each store when the store server collects the sales amount. And a step of generating POS settlement data based on the deposit and withdrawal data of each automatic change machine and transmitting the POS settlement data to the trustee server via the headquarters server, and the sales collected by the cash scrutiny machine connected to the trustee server. Scrutinize, determine and collect collected money Scrutiny data is generated and sent to the trustee server, and the type, face value and number of cash vouchers collected by the cash voucher check machine connected to the trustee server are carefully checked and fixed. A step of generating data and sending it to the trustee server, and a step of determining sales for each store POS register by generating balance data based on the POS settlement data and collected money examination data received by the trustee server. And a step of transmitting the fixed balance data to the headquarters server.

Further, the rear unmanned support method according to the present invention may have change preparation data for the trustee server to record the change to be distributed for each POS register of each store. The change data recorded in the change making data is directly updated by the headquarters server and/or the store server connected via the communication line. The trustee server sends the data of this change making data to the change making machine, and causes the change making machine to prepare a change pack containing change of a predetermined number of cash to be distributed to each POS register of each store. The change pack is delivered to each store and the change is replenished in the automatic change machine.

According to the present invention, not only can labor saving be performed by collectively managing various backward operations such as management of change funds that have been carried out at each store and headquarters, scrutiny and confirmation of sales, etc. It is possible to reduce the possibility of human trouble by minimizing the direct intervention of people in cash handling operations such as cash withdrawal and change replenishment.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a rear unmanned support system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, a rear unmanned support system according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a POS register 10 installed in a store 1, an automatic change dispenser 11 connected to the POS register 10, a POS register 10 and an automatic change dispenser. A store server 12 connected to the machine 11, a head office server 20 installed in the head office 2 that is connected to the store server 12 via a communication line and centrally managing each store, and a head office server 20 via a communication line. It is composed of a trustee server 30 installed in the cash transport company 3 to be connected.

The POS register 10 includes an arithmetic processing device for performing various arithmetic processes, a code reading device for reading a product identification code attached to a product, an input device for manually inputting various kinds of information, and various types of devices. It has a display device for displaying information and a storage device. The arithmetic processing unit of the POS register 10 reads out the price data D1 of the product corresponding to the product identification code of the product read by the code reading unit from the product information table of the store server 12 and multiplies the sales quantity to calculate the sales price. Then, the selling price is displayed on the display device. Further, the arithmetic processing unit of the POS register 10 sends the selling price data D2 indicating the amount of money to be received to the automatic change dispenser 11 connected to the POS register 10, and at the same time, sells the sold product, the selling price and the sales. The sales data D3 regarding the sold products such as the number of products is sent.

The automatic change dispenser 11 stores change cash according to denomination, a change cassette for storing inserted cash according to denomination, a cash scrutinizing device for scrutinizing the deposited cash, and a cash scrutiny device. And an arithmetic processing unit for calculating change by comparing the sales amount data D2 sent from the POS register 10 and the cash deposit/withdrawal data D4 for cash in a storage device. , And a change payout device for counting required cash according to the amount of change calculated by the arithmetic processing device and sending it to an outlet.

Sales data D5 including sales data D3 of the POS register 10 for which settlement has been completed and deposit/withdrawal data D4 representing deposit/withdrawal of the automatic change machine 11 is recorded in the storage device of the store server 12 by the arithmetic processing unit of the store server 12. It Here, it should be noted that the sales data D3 includes electronic money sales, credit sales, and accounts receivable sales in addition to cash sales and cash voucher sales. Since the amount of cash sales and the amount of sales other than cash vouchers are fixed at the time of sale in the POS register 10, when the balance data D9 described later is generated, they are added to the debit or credit as the fixed collection amount as they are. Will be counted.

When the sales proceeds are collected from the automatic change dispenser 11, the arithmetic processing unit of the store server 12 deposits and withdraws data D4 of the automatic change dispenser 11 at that time, the sales data D3 of the POS register 10, and the automatic change dispenser. The POS settlement data D7 is generated based on the change replenishment data D6 indicating the change replenished in 11 and transmitted to the headquarter server 20. The arithmetic processing unit of the headquarter server 20 records the received POS settlement data D7 for each POS register of each store in the storage device and transmits the POS settlement data D7 to the trustee server 30 of the cash transport company 3.

The trustee server 30 installed in the cash transport company 3 has a cash scrutiny machine 31 for calculating the amount of collected money, and a change for counting and collecting a specified number of cash for each POS register of each store. It is connected to the manufacturing machine 32. The cash scrutiny machine 31 and the change making machine 32 are installed in a cash processing center of a cash transport company.

The cash scrutinizing machine 31 is configured to scrutinize the deposited cash, sort it out, and store it in a storage for each type of money. The arithmetic processing unit of the trustee server 30 generates collected money examination data D8 indicating the amount of collected money for each POS register of each store, which is confirmed by counting the cash put into the cash examination machine 31. The arithmetic processing unit of the trustee server 30 credits (or debits) the POS settlement data D7 based on the POS settlement data D7 and the collected money examination data D8 for each POS register of each store obtained via the headquarters server 20. Then, the balance data D9 in which the collected money scrutiny data D8 is debited (or credited) is generated to determine the sales for each POS register of each store, and the sales are transmitted to the headquarters server 20.

The trustee server 30 has change preparation data D10 for recording the change to be distributed for each POS register of each store. The change data recorded in the change making data D10 is directly updated by the headquarters server 20 and/or the store server 12 connected via a communication line. The change making data D10 is sent from the trustee server 30 to the change making machine 32, and the change making machine 32 includes a change pack including a predetermined number of cash to be distributed to each POS register of each store. Prepare. The change pack is delivered to each store, and the change received from the cash transport company is replenished in each automatic change machine 11.

The trustee server 30 of the cash transport company 3 is also connected to the voucher scrutiny machine 33 installed in the cash processing center. The voucher scrutiny machine 33 scrutinizes the type, amount, and number of collected vouchers to generate cash voucher examination data D11. The cash collection amount included in the cash voucher examination data D11 is added to the sales amount collected in the collected cash voucher data D8 in the balance data D9. Preferably, the trustee server 30 of the cash transport company 3 is connected to the cash voucher server 50 of the cash voucher issuing company 5 that issued the cash voucher, and billing processing for the amount of the collected cash voucher is performed from the trustee server 30 to the cash voucher server 50. Be seen.

The trustee server 30 of the cash transport company 3 is connected to the account server 40 of the financial institution 4 having the account of the headquarters 2 in order to transfer the sales amount determined by the balance data D9 to the account of the headquarters 2. ..

Although the rear unmanned support system of the present invention configured as described above is not limited to this, it is typically operated according to the following procedure.

Change deposit production data D10 that records information that specifies the denomination and the number of denominations to be replenished for each day's automatic change machine 11 is prepared in the trustee server 30. The change data recorded in the change making data D10 is directly updated by the headquarters server 20 and/or the store server 12. The trustee server 30 transmits the change data to be prepared for the day, which is recorded in the change making data D10, to the change making machine 32, and prepares a change pack in which supplementary change is enclosed in each automatic change machine 11 of each store. To do. The prepared change change is carried to each store by a cash transport vehicle and is added to each automatic change machine 11. The change to be replenished is thrown in through the cash slot of the automatic change machine 11 and scrutinized, and the change replenishment data D6 showing the breakdown of the scrutinized change is recorded in the storage device of the store server 12 via the POS register 10. It

At the time of settlement of each POS register 10, cash is individually collected from each automatic change machine 11, and is enclosed in a collection container such as a collection pouch or bag together with the cash voucher deposited by the POS register 10, and the cash transport vehicle V Is carried to the cash processing center of the cash transport company 3. When the collection from the automatic change dispenser 11 is performed, the store server 12 performs POS settlement based on the sales data D3 of the POS register 10 at that time point and the deposit/withdrawal data D4 and the change replenishment data D6 of the automatic change dispenser 11. The data D7 is generated and transmitted to the trustee server 30 of the cash transport company 3 via the headquarters server 20.

In the cash processing center 3, the cash in the collection container is put into the cash scrutiny machine 31 to scrutinize the number of cashes and generate the collected money scrutiny data D8, while the cash vouchers are scrutinized by the cash voucher scrutiny machine 33 to examine the vouchers Data D11 is generated. When the collected money scrutinizing data D8 and the cash voucher scrutinizing data D11 are confirmed, the trustee server 30 calculates the balance data D9 based on the collected cash scrutinizing data D8 and the cash voucher scrutinizing data D11 and the POS settlement data D7 received from the headquarters server 20. Is generated to determine the sales for each POS register of each store and the sales for each store (store total), and sends them to the headquarters server 20. The trustee server 30 is connected to the account server 40 of the financial institution 4 and performs the remittance processing of the sales money determined by the balance data D9. The trustee server 30 also connects to the cash voucher server 50 of the cash voucher issuing company 5 and performs a billing process for the cash voucher amount determined by the balance data D9.

In the above description, the store has been described as an application form in a so-called chain store in which the opening time is set, but it is possible to appropriately set the timing of sales collection and change replenishment, and it is possible to open 24 hours. It will be easily understood that the same can be applied to the case of a store as well as a shopping mall such as a mall or a shopping street. Further, those skilled in the art will easily understand that the timing of the settlement of the POS register 10 and the replenishment of change can be arbitrarily changed or set. Furthermore, although the POS register 10 and the automatic change dispenser 11 are described as separate entities, the same can be applied to a POS register integrated with the automatic change dispenser.

1 Store 10 POS Register 11 Automatic Change Machine 12 Store Server 2 Headquarters 20 Headquarters Server 3 Cash Transport Company 30 Trustee Server 31 Cash Scrutiny Machine 32 Change Making Machine 33 Voucher Scrutiny Machine 4 Financial Institution 40 Account Server 5 Voucher Issuer 50 Voucher Server D1 Price data D2 Sales price data D3 Sales data D4 Deposit/withdrawal data D5 Sales data D6 Change replenishment data D7 POS settlement data D8 Collected cash scrutiny data D9 Balance preparation data D11 Cash voucher scrutiny data V Cash transport vehicle

Claims (4)

Centralized management of stores that are installed in stores, automatic change dispensers connected to POS registers, store servers connected to POS registers and automatic change dispensers, and stores that are connected to store servers via communication lines Consists of a headquarters server installed in the headquarters and a trustee server installed in the cash transportation company, which is connected to the headquarters server via a communication line.
The POS register has a code reading device for reading a product identification code attached to a product, an input device for manually inputting various information, and a display device for displaying various information,
The POS register extracts the price data of the product corresponding to the product identification code of the product read by the code reading device from the product information read from the product information table of the store server and multiplies the sales quantity to sell the price. Is provided with an arithmetic processing unit for sending the selling price data to the automatic change machine connected to the POS register, while calculating the
The automatic change machine stores change cash according to denomination, and also a change cassette for storing inserted cash according to denomination, a cash scrutinizing device for scrutinizing the inserted cash, and a cash scrutinizing device. An arithmetic processing unit for calculating change by collating the input amount of money scrutinized with the sales price data sent from the POS register, and the required cash is counted according to the amount of change calculated by the arithmetic processing unit. And has a change dispensing device for sending out to the outlet,
The store server records sales data including sales data of a POS register, which has been settled, and deposit/withdrawal data representing deposit/withdrawal of the automatic change machine, in the storage device, and the automatic change machine in which the sales money is collected. POS settlement data is generated based on the deposit/withdrawal data of POS and the sales data of the POS register, and is transmitted to the headquarters server.
The headquarter server records the received POS settlement data for each POS register of each store in a storage device and transmits the POS settlement data to a trustee server of a cash transport company,
The trustee server is installed in a cash processing center of a cash transport company and serves as a cash scrutiny machine for calculating the amount of collected money and a cash scrutiny machine for calculating the type and face value of the collected vouchers. Connected,
The cash scrutiny machine is configured to scrutinize the cash that has been thrown in and to sort the cash and store it in a storage for each denomination, and sort the cash that has been thrown into the cash scrutiny machine for each denomination. Generates collected money inspection data indicating the amount of collected money for each POS register of each store determined by counting and sends it to the trustee server,
The cash voucher scrutiny machine generates cash voucher collection data indicating the amount of cash vouchers collected for each POS register of each store, which is determined by carefully examining the type, face value and number of cash vouchers included in the collected sales. Send to trustee server,
The trustee server for each POS register of each store determined by generating balance data based on the POS settlement data for each POS register of each store and the collected money examination data obtained via the headquarters server. Generate sales confirmation data and send it to the headquarters server,
Rear unmanned support system. The trustee server is connected to a change making machine installed in a cash processing center of a cash transport company, and based on change making data updated by a headquarters server and/or a store server connected via a communication line, 2. The rear unmanned support system according to claim 1, wherein a change pack containing a predetermined number of pieces of cash to be distributed to each POS register of each store is prepared by a change making machine. Centralized management of stores that are installed in stores, automatic change dispensers connected to POS registers, store servers connected to POS registers and automatic change dispensers, and stores that are connected to store servers via communication lines Rear unmanned carried out using a rear unmanned support system consisting of a headquarters server installed at the headquarters and a trustee server installed at a cash transport company, which is connected to the headquarters server via a communication line. Is a method to support
A process of collecting the sales amount of each POS register of each store at a cash processing center of a cash transport company,
A step in which the store server generates POS settlement data based on the sales data for each POS register and the deposit/withdrawal data for each automatic change machine at the time of collecting the sales, and transmits the POS settlement data to the trustee server via the headquarters server; ,
A step of scrutinizing and confirming the sales proceeds collected by the cash scrutiny machine connected to the trustee server, generating collected money scrutinizing data, and sending it to the trustee server
A step of scrutinizing and confirming the type, face value and number of the vouchers collected by the voucher scrutiny machine connected to the trustee server, generating voucher collection data, and sending it to the trustee server;
Determining the sales for each store POS register by generating balance data based on the POS settlement data and the collected money examination data received by the trustee server;
And a step of transmitting the confirmed balance data to the headquarter server 20. The trustee server has change making data for recording the change to be distributed for each POS register of each store, and the change data recorded in the change making data is a headquarters server connected via a communication line. And/or directly by the store server, the trustee server sends data of this change making data to the change making machine, and a change pack containing change of a predetermined number of cash to be distributed to each POS register of each store. The rear unmanned assistance method according to claim 3, further comprising the step of preparing the item by a change maker.

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