JP7466716B1 - Reusable product purchase and sales support system - Google Patents

Abstract

[Problem] To provide a system for assisting in the purchase and sale of reused products in stores. [Solution] In the system for assisting in the purchase and sale of reused products, when a user who is an employee of a company that purchases and sells reused products logs in to the appraisal system store section, a purchase criteria table is displayed on the screen of the user's terminal, and the user is prompted to select a major category from the purchase criteria table. Then, for the product received from the customer wishing to sell, a purchase possibility check is made based on whether the product received from the customer meets the "return criteria." If the product can be purchased, the brand tag of the product is read, the brand name is searched for, and the brand name in the search results is confirmed. If the brand rank of the product being appraised is confirmed to be the "store appraisal rank," the purchase criteria table is displayed on the screen of the user's terminal, and the user is prompted to confirm whether or not to purchase the product. [Selected Figure] Figure 2

Description

Patent Law Article 30, Paragraph 2 applied Publication date: February 16, 2022 Publication location: Second Street Takahagihara Store (Address: 1-508 Takahagihara, Meito-ku, Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture)

This invention relates to a system that assists in the purchase and sale of reused (recycled) products.

A conventional system that assists in the purchase and sale of reused (recycled) products is described in, for example, Patent Document 1. In this system, a support service company sets up a server that can be accessed via the Internet, recruits users for the recycling business, concludes data access license agreements with the users and manages customers using passwords, provides recycled product information from the server to the users' browsers, and the users pay a usage fee to the support service company in return for the information.

In order to provide timely product information to users' browsers, the support service company collects manufacturer product information, retail store sales information, product trend information, and customer consumption trend information, and collects purchase and sales appraisal results information, which is data on actual purchases and sales made through users' browsers, through data support services, and maintains recycled product information by aggregating, storing, and analyzing this various information.

The user accesses the required information screen on the server using a browser on a PC or the like, and the server performs an appraisal according to the appraisal calculation logic of the buy-back appraisal program displayed on the appraisal monitor screen. When the user inputs the required items on the appraisal monitor screen of the server, such as the product name, manufacturer name, model number, and manufacturing date, the appraisal calculation logic displays the final store sales price on the appraisal monitor screen, as well as the appraisal base sales price based on the appraisal base price determination criteria, the manufacturer brand evaluation appraisal sales price based on the manufacturer brand ranking by product type, the manufacturing date cost rate based on the manufacturing date cost rate table, and further displays the buy-back appraisal amount calculated from these on the appraisal monitor screen.

Next, the user checks the condition of the product and inputs the product condition (degree) assessment rank based on the product condition (degree) assessment ranking table on the assessment monitor screen, as well as the result of the reduced appraisal based on the reduced appraisal checklist for accessories, operating condition, scratches, etc. of the information device, etc., and the appraisal calculation logic then displays the determined purchase appraisal amount, recommended selling price, and markup rate calculated based on these on the assessment monitor screen.

This conventional system provides timely and fair appraisal prices for recycled products, which include a huge number of items and whose prices fluctuate daily, to individual recycle shops and to the Recycle Business Headquarters, which operates multiple recycle shops. Furthermore, the appraisal prices for purchased products are calculated based on an extremely large amount of analytical data, rather than relying on the store's own appraisal standards, the intuition of the staff, or references to commercially available magazines and product catalogs, to clearly show logically assessed prices. Moreover, by backing up the maintenance work of recycled product information that the Recycle Business Headquarters performs as a daily task, the work can be sped up and the workload reduced.

JP 2003-036390 A

However, while the above-mentioned conventional reused product purchase and sales support system can present a centralized, optimal appraisal price, it is not possible to set appraisal prices and sales prices appropriate to trends and best-selling items at each store, set product lineups, or move merchandise between stores, and so on, and so forth, resulting in problems with the system's functionality for supporting the purchase and sale of reused products being insufficient. In particular, there was a problem in that product purchase operations could not be carried out appropriately for users who had insufficient or no product knowledge about the products they were trying to purchase.

Therefore, the purpose of this invention is to solve the above-mentioned problems of the conventional technology and to provide a system that appropriately assists in the purchase and sale of reused products in stores.

The present invention provides a system for assisting the purchase and sale of reused products that advantageously achieves the above object, comprising an inventory management means and a purchase assessment assistance means, both of which are configured by computers, linked to each other, and connected to all user terminals of the system via a network;
the inventory management means grasps which products sell well, which products don't sell well, and the inventory status at a store related to each user terminal based on the buying and selling information input from the user terminal when buying and selling products at the store related to the user terminal, and sends the product information including the buying and selling information, the products sell well, the products don't sell well, and the inventory status together with information identifying the store to the purchase appraisal assistance means and to all user terminals;
the buy-back assessment assistance means transmits assessment information, which assists in buy-back assessment of reused products suitable for a store based on product information to be appraised input from the user terminal at a store related to each user terminal and the product information to be appraised from the inventory management means, together with information identifying the store to the inventory management means and to all user terminals;
The present invention is characterized by the following:

In the reuse product purchase and sales support system of this invention, the inventory management means, which is composed of a computer and connected to all user terminals (users, i.e., personal computers or pad-type smartphones operated by store clerks who use the system at each store) via a network, grasps the easy-to-sell and hard-to-sell products and inventory status of the store based on the purchase and sale information input from the user terminal when products are purchased and sold at the store associated with each user terminal, and sends the product information including the purchase and sale information, easy-to-sell and hard-to-sell products, and inventory status together with information identifying the store to the purchase assessment support means and to all user terminals.

In addition, a purchase appraisal assistance means, which is composed of a computer, cooperates with the inventory management means, and is connected to all user terminals via a network, sends appraisal information to assist in the purchase appraisal of reused products suitable for a store based on product information to be appraised input from the user terminal at a store associated with the user terminal and the product information to be appraised from the inventory management means, together with information identifying the store, to the inventory management means and to all user terminals.

Therefore, the reuse product purchase and sales assistance system of this invention can appropriately assist in the purchase and sale of reuse products by setting appraisal values, purchase and sale prices, and product configurations appropriate to the trends and best-selling items of each store, and by allowing the movement of merchandise between stores based on that product configuration.

Moreover, according to the reuse product buying and selling support system of the present invention, the inventory management means sends to the user terminal operated by the user information on easy-selling and hard-selling products and the inventory status of the store associated with the user terminal, and the buying and appraisal support means linked to the inventory management means sends to the user terminal appraisal information that assists in the buying and appraisal of reuse products suitable for the store associated with the user terminal, based on product information on the product to be appraised input from the user terminal and product information from the inventory management means, so that even a user who has no or insufficient product knowledge about the product they are trying to buy can properly carry out the buying and selling process for that product.

In addition, in the reuse product purchase and sales assistance system of this invention, the purchase assessment assistance means displays a price display screen that displays, for each type of product, a common purchase criterion, a basic purchase and sales price, and a purchase and sales bonus price that is an additional amount to the basic price in one or more ranks according to the characteristics of the product, and may also display, upon instruction from the user terminal, a price display screen that displays a list of low purchase and sales prices that are lower than the basic price in one or more ranks according to the condition of the product for products that are close to the return criteria. In this way, each store can set more appropriate prices for the purchase and sale of products.

Furthermore, when the purchase appraisal assistance means appraises an item that a user using each user terminal is trying to purchase, it may compare an image of the brand tag and/or an image of the item taken by the camera with a number of pre-stored images of brand tags and/or items with known brand names, and use the item information corresponding to the image of the brand tag and/or item taken by the camera. In this way, an appropriate purchase appraisal can be made even when it is impossible or inconvenient to visually read the brand tag, or when the user has no or insufficient knowledge about the item.

In addition, in the reuse product purchase and sales assistance system of the present invention, the inventory management means grasps the easy-selling and hard-selling products and inventory status of the store at each specified time period based on the purchase and sales information input from the user terminal when products are purchased and sold at the store associated with the user terminal, and may instruct or recommend improvement actions for each product type at the store based on the product information including the purchase and sales information, easy-selling and hard-selling products, and inventory status, and the gross profit per square meter by product type at the store. In this way, it is possible to set purchase and sales prices and product configurations appropriate for each store's trends and best-selling items, and to manage inventory, thereby appropriately assisting in the purchase and sale of reuse products.

Furthermore, the inventory management means may instruct or recommend the improvement actions to include at least one of the following based on the inventory situation: expanding or reducing the sales floor, reducing prices, moving products between stores, adjusting purchases, and replenishing stock. In this way, it is possible to appropriately assist in setting sales prices and product lineups appropriate for trends and best-selling items at each store, and in inventory management.

1 is a flowchart showing a process for buying and selling reused products using a system for assisting buying and selling reused products according to an embodiment of the present invention. 4 is a flowchart showing a configuration of an appraisal system store unit and a purchase appraisal process in the reuse product purchase and sales assistance system of the embodiment. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration of a core part of an assessment system in the reuse product buying and selling assistance system of the embodiment. FIG. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration and processing of an inventory management system in the reuse product buyback and sales assistance system of the embodiment. FIG. 11 is an explanatory diagram illustrating a buy-back criteria table in the reuse product buy-back and sales assistance system of the embodiment.

The following describes in detail the reuse product purchase and sales support system of one embodiment of the present invention with reference to the drawings. Here, FIG. 1 is a flowchart showing the reuse product purchase and sales process using the reuse product purchase and sales support system of one embodiment of the present invention, FIG. 2 is a flowchart showing the configuration of the appraisal system store section and the purchase appraisal process in the reuse product purchase and sales support system of the above embodiment, and FIG. 3 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration of the appraisal system core of the reuse product purchase and sales support system of the above embodiment. In these figures, solid arrows indicate the flow of business, and dashed arrows indicate the flow of data.

Figure 4 is an explanatory diagram showing the configuration and processing of an inventory management system in the reusable product purchase and sales assistance system of the above embodiment, and Figure 5 is an explanatory diagram showing an example of a purchase criteria table in the reusable product purchase and sales assistance system of the above embodiment.

The reuse product buying and selling process (hereinafter also referred to as "the process") using the reuse product buying and selling support system (hereinafter also referred to as "the system") of this embodiment begins in step S1, as shown in FIG. 1, in a store where the user of the system (hereinafter also referred to as "the user"), who is an employee of the reuse product buying and selling company, usually works, in connection with a user terminal with a screen display function, such as a notebook computer, tablet computer, or smartphone, carried and operated by the user.

Then, in step S2, the user receives the product to be sold from the customer, and in step S3, the user starts the appraisal of the product, and the process proceeds from connector I to step S21 of the user's purchase appraisal process using appraisal system store unit 1 shown in FIG. 2 and appraisal system main unit 2 shown in FIG. 3. Here, appraisal system store unit 1 is composed of a computer that runs a predetermined application program installed in advance, for example, and the computer may be the user terminal or a desktop computer installed in the store and connected to the user terminal via a wireless LAN or the like. Also, appraisal system main unit 2 is composed of a main computer that is installed in the headquarters of the reused product purchase and sales company, and runs a predetermined application program installed in advance, and is connected to appraisal system store unit 1 via a dedicated line, the Internet, or the like.

In the above-mentioned purchase appraisal process, the user first inputs information that identifies the user, such as the user's name, identification number, password, etc., from the user terminal to the appraisal system store section 1 in step S21 to log in to the system. This login is approved when the appraisal system store section 1 references the employee master 2e in the appraisal master DB (database) 2a of the appraisal system core 2 through connector K and confirms that the user is an employee of the store, but is rejected if the user is not an employee of the store. The employee master 2e is linked to a core master DB 2b, which is also configured by the main computer, for example, and the core master DB 2b updates the employee master 2e by executing nighttime batch processing at night when each store is closed.

In response to this, in step S22, the appraisal system store unit 1 displays a purchase criteria table as shown in FIG. 5 on the screen of the user terminal, and the user selects the major category of the product he or she wishes to sell that he or she received from the customer from the list of major categories on the left side of the purchase criteria table in FIG. 5, for example "clothing" in FIG. 5, and inputs this from the user terminal to the appraisal system store unit 1, for example by touching the screen. As a result, the user terminal displays a purchase criteria table including "clothing" on the screen.

Next, in step S23, the user checks the "return criteria (condition, size, design)" for the classification (gender, sales floor classification, item) to which the clothing falls in the buy-back criteria table, and confirms whether the product received from the customer can be bought. For example, in the "return criteria" in this buy-back criteria table, for the classification of gender: ladies, sales floor classification: short-sleeved cut-and-sew, and item: sleeveless cut-and-sew, the item cannot be bought if the condition is waist-length and the size is shoulder width less than 35 cm (excluding stretchy materials).

If the user is unfamiliar with purchasing products, in step S23, the user can touch the "common purchasing criteria button" displayed at the top of the purchasing criteria table to, for example, display a common purchasing criteria table over the purchasing criteria table, or turn off the display. In this common purchasing criteria table, for example, chinchilla fur products and fur products belonging to the feline family cannot be purchased, but products with names written or embroidered on them can be purchased on the condition that personal information can be deleted or that the name is initials.

If the product received from the customer that the user wishes to sell falls under the above "return criteria," the user determines in step S23 that the product cannot be purchased, and the process proceeds from connector A to step S5 shown in FIG. 1. After returning the product that the user wishes to sell (return product) to the customer, the process returns to step S22. For example, the user terminal displays the purchase criteria table on the screen by touching the screen to evaluate the next product that the user wishes to sell that the user receives from the customer, and the purchase evaluation process from step S22 onwards is repeated. Note that if the customer does not have a next product that they wish to sell after returning the return product to the customer in step S5 shown in FIG. 1, the process skips steps S6 and onwards and proceeds to step S16, ending the purchase/sales assistance process.

On the other hand, if the product received from the customer that the user wishes to sell does not meet the return criteria, the user determines in step S23 that the product can be purchased, and in step S24, the product is assessed to determine whether the brand name can be read visually from the brand tag of the product. If the brand name can be read visually, the user inputs the read brand name into the user terminal in step S25, and the appraisal system store unit 1 uses the search engine 2c of the appraisal system core unit 2 shown in Figure 3 from connector B to search for the brand rank (authenticity rank and basic price rank) of the brand name from the brand master 2f in the appraisal master DB 2a, and displays the results at the top of the purchase criteria table.

If the user is unable or has difficulty visually reading the brand name from the brand tag of the product in step S24, then in step S26 the user takes an image of the product and its brand tag, for example using the camera function of the user terminal, and the appraisal system store unit 1 sends those images via connector L to the machine learning API (application programming interface) 2d of the appraisal system core unit 2 shown in FIG. 3, and the brand name is obtained from those images using the image recognition function of the machine learning API 2d based on open source machine learning. Similar to step S25, the search engine 2c searches for the brand rank from the brand name, and the results are displayed at the top of the purchase criteria table.

The images of the product and its brand tag taken in step S26 are also used for further machine learning by the machine learning API 2d to improve image recognition accuracy. These images are also sent by the appraisal system store unit 1 from connector M to the appraisal system core unit 2's own EC (electronic commerce) site 5 on the Internet, as shown in FIG. 3, and the images and registered product information are used to automatically post the product on the company's EC site 5, promoting sales of the purchased product in the store or on the company's EC site 5.

Once the brand rank of the product to be appraised has been determined in step S25 or step S26, the user then checks in step S27 whether the authenticity rank for that brand rank is a "store appraisal rank" that does not require an authenticity determination and can be appraised at the store, an "authenticity required rank" that requires an authenticity determination according to the store's manual, or a "CB appraisal rank" that requires an authenticity determination by a CB (central buyer), who is, for example, a member of the headquarters of the reused product purchasing and sales company and has specialized knowledge and extensive experience in product purchasing.

If in step S27 the brand rank of the product being appraised is confirmed to be "store appraisal rank", in step S28 the appraisal system store unit 1 uses connector C to refer to item master 2g of appraisal master DB 2a of appraisal system core unit 2 shown in FIG. 3, displays the buy-back criteria table on the user terminal, and the user reads out the buy-back price corresponding to the item (tank top, cut-and-sew, etc.) of the product being appraised from the basic price rank column of the brand rank of the product. In this basic price rank column, rank 1 is the highest rank, which corresponds to signature brand products, ranks 2 to 4 are successively lower ranks, and regular is the lowest rank, which corresponds to products from less well-known manufacturers or unknown manufacturers, for example. Usually, the higher the basic price rank, the higher the buy-back price.

For products in condition C, which is close to the lowest purchase limit and is close to being returned goods, the user can, for example, slide the "Condition C Price" button displayed at the top of the purchase criteria table to display a "Condition C Price" read from the item master 2g, which is lower than the basic price, in place of the basic price in each rank in the basic price column of the purchase criteria table, making it possible to purchase the product at a price according to its condition. Note that a "Documents" button is displayed in each section of the purchase criteria table, and the user can click on the "Documents" button to display documents such as photos of products in various states, including "Condition C," read from the item master 2g, for reference, over the purchase criteria table, for example, or to hide the display.

In this step S28, the user refers to the repurchase criteria table to confirm the item of the product, and then the appraisal system store unit 1 refers to the content of the remedial action instruction in step S46 of the inventory management system 3 shown in FIG. 4 from connector D, which will be described later. In the next step S29, the user determines whether or not the appraised product needs to be repurchased. If the remedial action instruction is to "replenish inventory to improve inventory shortages," it is determined that a purchase is necessary, and if the remedial action instruction is to "adjust purchases to improve inventory," it is determined that a purchase is not necessary.

As shown in FIG. 3, the inventory management system 3 is configured by a computer installed, for example, at the headquarters of the reuse product purchasing and sales company together with a main computer constituting the assessment system core 2, which has a predetermined application program installed in advance and executes it, or by the main computer itself, and repeatedly executes the inventory management process shown in FIG. 4 at a predetermined interval, for example, one week or one month.

That is, in step S41, the inventory management system 3 first reads in the management accounting table, which is updated at any time by the purchase and sale company of the reused products, at a specified interval from the store computer 4 constituting the point of sale information management system (POS) shown in FIG. 3, in step S42, it obtains the gross profit per square meter for each type from the management accounting table, and in step S43, it judges whether the gross profit per square meter for each type is higher or lower than a specified standard. In addition, in step S44, it obtains the number of days of inventory for each type from the management accounting table, and in step S45, it judges whether there is an excess or shortage of inventory for each type from the number of days of inventory.

Furthermore, in steps S46 and S47, the inventory management system 3 creates and outputs instructions for improving the product composition for each product type at a predetermined interval equal to or longer than the above-mentioned inventory surplus/shortage judgment, and in step S48 determines the specific content of the improvement action to be instructed for each product type, for example, if the gross profit margin per square meter is high and there is excess inventory, expand the sales floor, if the gross profit margin per square meter is high and there is shortage of inventory, replenish inventory and/or reduce the sales floor, if the gross profit margin per square meter is low and there is excess inventory, reduce prices, transfer between stores and/or adjust purchases, and if the gross profit margin per square meter is low and there is shortage of inventory, replenish inventory, and instructs the user to the content of the improvement action determined from the appraisal system store unit 1 of the corresponding store.

If it is determined in the previous step S29 that the item is not necessary to be purchased and therefore cannot be purchased, the appraisal system store unit 1 proceeds to step S5 in FIG. 1 via connector E, and informs the user to return the appraised item that the customer wished to sell as a "return item" to the customer. On the other hand, if it is determined in step S29 that the item is necessary to be purchased and therefore can be purchased, in the next step S30, the appraisal system store unit 1 instructs the user via connector F to refer to the point-adding element master 2h in the appraisal master DB 2a of the appraisal system core 2, and check the point-adding elements such as the silhouette (length), material, and other trend information of the item.

Next, in step S31, the appraisal system store unit 1 refers to the price master 2i of the appraisal master DB 2a of the appraisal system core unit 2 through the connector G, and displays a price correspondence table similar to the above-mentioned purchase standard table on the screen of the above-mentioned user terminal. This price correspondence table allows the base price and the added point price to be narrowed down by a rank filter, and when "Rank 1" is selected in the rank filter column at the top of the price correspondence table, only the rank 1 price of the product is displayed in the base price and added point price columns. The appraisal system store unit 1 further refers to the inventory management system 3 through the connector D, and if the product type is in excess stock and the improvement action instruction is "price reduction", it refers to the single item price master 2j and displays the price after the price reduction in the above-mentioned price correspondence table. This allows the user to assess the product and present it to the customer at an appropriate purchase price that is desirable for the store, even if the user has no or insufficient knowledge or experience in appraisal of the product to be appraised.

On the other hand, if the brand rank is found to be "authentic" in step S27, which requires a determination of authenticity based on the store manual, the process proceeds to step S32, where the user displays the store manual, which describes the authenticity determination criteria, on the user terminal screen to confirm whether authenticity determination based on the store manual is possible. If authenticity determination based on the store manual is possible, the user refers to the store manual in step S33 to determine the authenticity of the product to be appraised, and then checks whether the determination can be made based on the single item price master in step S34. If the product is genuine and can be determined based on the single item price master, this is input from the user terminal to the appraisal system store unit 1, and the appraisal system store unit 1 proceeds to step S31, where the appraisal system store unit 1 refers to the single item price master 2j in the appraisal master DB 2a of the appraisal system core 2, and displays the price of the product to be appraised on the user terminal screen.

In addition, if the user confirms in step S32 that the authenticity cannot be determined using the store manual and inputs this information from the user terminal to the appraisal system store unit 1, the appraisal system store unit 1 connects in real time to a window where a CB (central buyer), who is a person with specialized knowledge and a lot of experience in purchasing products, is located, for example, at the store, headquarters, warehouse, etc. of the purchasing and selling company of the above-mentioned reused products, using a web conference system or the like, and shares information such as photos and videos of the product to be appraised and its brand tag, and the CB determines the authenticity of the product to be appraised from the information in step S35, and then determines the price of the product in step S36. The appraisal system store unit 1 sends the result of the price determination by the CB from the connector N to the single item price master 2j of the appraisal master DB 2a of the appraisal system core 2 and records it, or overwrites the price of the product in the single item price master 2j.

Once the price of the item to be appraised has been determined in step S31 or S36, then in step S37, the appraisal system store unit 1 uses connector H to register the appraised price of the item in the point of sale information management system (POS) configured by the store computer 4. The process from step S22 to step S37 is repeated for the number of items to be appraised, and when this repetition is completed, the appraisal system store unit 1 returns to step S4 shown in FIG. 1 via connector J to end the appraisal.

The user then uses the store computer 4 in step S5 to settle the price of the appraised items with the customer at the appraised price and return any items that cannot be purchased to the customer, then in step S6, issues a purchase slip for the appraised items, and then in step S7, begins the process of commercializing the appraised items (making them eligible for in-store sale).

In this commercialization process, the user first sorts the appraised products into low- and high-priced items in step S8, using sorting sheets prepared by item (e.g., women's clothing, men's clothing, etc.) and price. For low-priced items, in step S9, the sorted items are temporarily stored in a container or other designated storage location using appraisal cards prepared by item and price, or label stickers with circles drawn for the category, item, and price. In step S10, the stored items are removed when the items are to be displayed in the store, i.e., when the user has free time or when the items in the store have been sold and can be put out.

In step S11, the user registers the number of items by item and price on the gross inventory registration screen displayed on the user terminal by the POS configured by the store computer 4, and a label printer installed in the store and connected to the POS prints a product tag or label indicating the price of the product. The user then attaches the printed product tag or label to the product and displays the product in the store in step S12.

For high-priced items, on the other hand, in step S13, the POS comprised by the store computer 4 reads the purchase slips for the sorted items, and in step S14, the POS displays on the user's terminal a high-priced item inventory registration screen, and the user registers the number of items by item and price. The label printer then prints a product tag or label indicating the price of the item, and the user attaches the printed product tag or label to the item and displays the item in the store in step S12. After that, the commercialization work is completed in step S15, and the process ends in step S16.

That is, in this embodiment of the reuse product purchase and sales support system, the inventory management system 3, which is composed of a computer and serves as inventory management means connected to all user terminals via a network, grasps the easy-to-sell and hard-to-sell products and inventory status of a store related to each user terminal based on the buying and selling information input from the user terminal when buying and selling products at the store, and sends the product information including the buying and selling information, easy-to-sell and hard-to-sell products and inventory status together with information identifying the store to the appraisal system store section 1 of the store, and also to all user terminals.

The appraisal system store section 1 and appraisal system core section 2, which are composed of computers and act as a purchasing appraisal assistance means linked to the inventory management system 3 and connected to all user terminals via a network, assist in the purchasing appraisal of reused products suitable for each store based on product information to be appraised input from the user terminal at the store associated with each user terminal and the product information to be appraised from the inventory management system 3, and send the appraisal information together with information identifying the store to the inventory management system 3 and to all user terminals.

In addition, the inventory management system 3 sends to the user terminal operated by the user information on the easy-to-sell products, difficult-to-sell products, and inventory status of the store associated with the user terminal, and the appraisal system store unit 1 linked to the inventory management system 3 sends to the user terminal appraisal information that assists in the purchase appraisal of reused products suitable for the store associated with the user terminal, based on the product information to be appraised input from the user terminal and the product information from the inventory management system 3.

Therefore, according to this embodiment of the reused product purchase and sales assistance system, it is possible to set the appraisal amount, purchase price, and product configuration appropriate to the trends and best-selling items at each store, and to move merchandise between stores based on that product configuration, thereby appropriately assisting in the purchase and sale of reused products. And even users who have no or insufficient product knowledge about the product they are trying to purchase can appropriately carry out the purchase business for that product.

Although the above explanation is based on the illustrated example, the present invention is not limited to the illustrated example and can be modified as appropriate within the scope of the claims. For example, the appraisal system store section 1 may send a user's proposal to the inventory management system 3 via the user terminal, requesting an increase or decrease in the appraisal price of a specific product to a price appropriate to the actual situation in the vicinity of the store associated with the user terminal, and the inventory management system 3 may reflect the increase or decrease in the appraisal price of the specific product in the instructions for improvement action after the proposal is reviewed at the headquarters of the company that buys and sells reused products.

In the above embodiment, a customer who wishes to sell a product confirms the purchase price of the product by referring to the purchase standard table displayed on the screen by inputting the brand name and brand tag image on the user terminal of the reuse product purchase/sales support system in this embodiment in steps S21 to S27. Alternatively, a customer who wishes to sell a product may access the company's EC site 5 in advance from the customer's own terminal such as a smartphone via the Internet, register login information such as his/her login name and password in the customer master in the assessment master DB (database) 2a of the assessment system core unit 2, install a simplified application program that can execute steps S21 to S27 of the assessment system store unit 1 from the company's EC site 5 on the customer's own terminal, log in to the application program with the login information, and execute it to link the customer's own terminal with the assessment system core unit 2, and input the brand name, brand tag image, etc. in the same manner as in steps S21 to S27 on the terminal, and confirm the reference purchase price in advance from the reference purchase price table similar to the purchase standard table displayed on the terminal.

Thus, the reuse product purchase and sales support system of this invention can set appraisal values, purchase and sale prices, and product configurations appropriate to the trends and best-sellers of each store, and can transfer merchandise between stores based on that product configuration, making it possible to appropriately support the purchase and sale of reuse products, and even users who have no or insufficient product knowledge about the product they are trying to purchase can appropriately carry out the purchase process for that product.

1. Appraisal system store department 2. Appraisal system core department 2a. Appraisal master DB
2b Core Master DB
2c Search engine 2d Machine learning API
2e Employee master 2f Brand master 2g Item master 2h Points element master 2i Price master 2j Single item price master 3 Inventory management system 4 Store computer (POS)
5. Your own EC site

Claims (5)

A buyback/sales assistance system comprising an inventory management means and a buyback appraisal assistance means, both of which are implemented by computers and cooperate with each other, and a plurality of user terminals connected to the inventory management means and the buyback appraisal assistance means via a network,
the inventory management means grasps which products sell well, which products don't sell well, and the inventory status at a store related to each user terminal based on the buying and selling information input from the user terminal when buying and selling products at the store related to the user terminal, and sends the product information including the buying and selling information, the products sell well, the products don't sell well, and the inventory status together with information identifying the store to the purchase appraisal assistance means and to all user terminals;
the buy-back assessment assistance means transmits assessment information, which assists in buy-back assessment of reused products suitable for a store based on product information to be appraised input from the user terminal at a store related to each user terminal and the product information to be appraised from the inventory management means, together with information identifying the store to the inventory management means and to all user terminals;
A system to assist in the purchase and sale of reused products. The reusable product purchase and sales support system according to claim 1, characterized in that the purchase assessment support means displays, for each type of product, a price display screen that displays a list of the return standard, which is common to the purchase standard, the purchase and sales base price, and the purchase and sales bonus price that is the base price plus an added amount in one or more ranks according to the characteristics of the product, and also displays, in response to an instruction from the user terminal, a price display screen that displays a list of purchase and sales low rank prices that are lower than the base price in one or more ranks according to the condition of the product for products in a condition close to the return standard. The reusable product buyback and sales support system of claim 1, characterized in that the buyback assessment support means, when assessing a product that a user using each user terminal wishes to buy, compares an image of the brand tag and/or product taken with a camera with a number of images of brand tags and/or products with known brand names that have been stored in advance, and uses product information corresponding to the image of the brand tag and/or product taken with the camera. The reusable product purchase and sales assistance system of claim 1, characterized in that the inventory management means grasps the easy-to-sell products, hard-to-sell products, and inventory status of the store at each specified time period based on the buying and selling information input from the user terminal when buying and selling products at the store related to the user terminal, and instructs or recommends improvement actions for each product type at the store based on the product information including the buying and selling information, easy-to-sell products, hard-to-sell products, and inventory status, and the gross profit per square meter by product type at the store. 5. The reuse product buyback and sales assistance system of claim 4 , wherein the inventory management means instructs or recommends the improvement actions to be taken based on the inventory situation, and includes at least one of the following: expanding or reducing the sales floor, reducing prices , transferring products between stores, adjusting buybacks, and replenishing inventory.

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