JPH04107798A - System for laying-out advertisement of daily merchandise leaflet - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To make the layout of an advertising leaflet match to sales tendency by linking merchandise information and POS information and automatically designing the sales information of daily merchandise, the information of the respective kinds of merchandise advertised on the leaflet and the daily layout of the advertising leaflet. CONSTITUTION:An input means 1 registers and updates merchandise information including sales prices. An editing means 2 edits the daily merchandise sales information including merchandise codes and the date, and a daily leaflet merchandise information editing means 3 edits the daily leaflet merchandise information from the merchandise information and the daily merchandise sales information. An advertising leaflet layout slip output means 4 outputs the layout image of the advertising leaflet from the daily leaflet merchandise information. Thus, the layout of the advertising leaflet is linked with the sales tendency and man- hour and cost can be reduced for correcting the layout of the advertising leaflet and the information for the respective kinds of merchandise.

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Field of Industrial Application] The present invention relates to a daily product flyer advertisement layout design in a POS system for retail industry.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, the layout design of this type of flyer advertisement was done by hand by manually creating the daily product layout and the product information (product name, catalog product number, suggested retail price, sales price, photographic film number, etc.) to compose the flyer advertisement. It was edited by a person, and relied heavily on personal factors.

[Problem to be solved by the invention]

In the conventional flyer advertisement layout design described above, daily product sales information and information about each product to be placed on the flyer advertisement (product name, catalog product number, retail sales price, sales price, photographic film number) are manually entered. Collected at work,
The daily layout of flyer advertisements was done manually.

Therefore, (a) The layout of flyer advertisements is difficult to link with sales trends.

(b) The number of man-hours and expenses required for proofreading the layout of flyer advertisements and information on each product are large.

There is a drawback.

[Means to solve the problem]

The daily product flyer advertisement layout method of the present invention includes input means for registering and updating product information including a product code and sales price, and means for editing daily product sales information including the product code, month, day, and day of the week. This is realized by including means for editing daily flyer product information from the product information and the daily product sales information, and means for outputting a layout image of a flyer advertisement from the daily flyer product information.

〔Example〕

Next, the present invention will be explained with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention. In the figure, the daily product flyer advertisement layout system includes an input means 1 for registering or changing product information, a means 2 for editing daily product sales information from PO5 information, a means 3 for editing daily product flyer product information, and a flyer. It is composed of an advertisement layout book output means 4.

Referring to FIG. 2, the input means 1 for registering or changing product information includes an input data screen output processing section 11 for changing product information registration, a data check processing section 12 for checking the validity of product information, and a data check processing section 12 for checking the validity of product information. , a mask file output processing section 13 , a workstation 14 , and a mask file 15 .

Referring to FIG. 3(a), the means 2 for editing daily product sales information from PO8 information is composed of a daily product sales information classification processing unit 21 and a 9-day product sales information mask file 22. Been 0 le.

Referring to FIG. 4(a), the daily flyer product information editing means 3 includes a mask file 15, a 9-day sales information mask file 229, and a daily flyer product information editing unit 3.
1 and a flyer product information mask file 32 for each day.

Referring to FIG. 5(a), the flyer advertisement layout book table output means 4 outputs the daily flyer product information mask file 3.
2, a leaflet advertisement layout book output processing unit 41,
It consists of a layout book table 42 of flyer advertisements.

Next, the processing operation of the above daily product flyer advertisement layout method will be explained in detail.

Referring to FIG. 2, in the input means 1 for registering and changing product information, the data input screen output processing section 11 operates to display an input screen on the workstation 14 into which product information can be entered. Product information (product name, catalog product number, desired retail sales price, selling price, photographic film number, source marking code, product code) is input based on this input screen.

As a result of this input, the data check and yaw processing section 12 operates, and the product name, catalog product number, suggested retail sales price, selling price, photographic film number, source marking code, etc.
Check the validity of the product code. If the check is valid, the product information mask file output processing section 13 operates. If it is invalid, an error message will be displayed on the workstation 14 and the process will return to the data input/output screen processing section 11.

The product information mask file output processing unit 13 outputs the product information to the mask file 15. Then, a check is performed to see if all the product information of the target product has been input, and if it has not been input, the process returns to the data input/output screen processing section 11. In the case of all input, the input means 1 ends.

Referring to FIGS. 3(a), (b), and (c), the means 2 for editing the daily product sales information from the PO8 information operates the daily product sales information classification processing unit 21, and the source marking code Alternatively, using the product code and the day of the week/month/day as classification keys, select 9 editing from the PO8 information based on the ranking sequence with the highest sales quantity or sales amount on the day of the week/month/day side (see FIGS. 3(b) and (C)). Here, a high rank sequence can be designated by the parameter X, and X up to the best X rank can be designated arbitrarily. The result of selection 1 editing as described above (FIG. 3(C)) is output to the daily product sales information mask file 22.

Referring to FIGS. 4(a) and 4(b), the daily flyer product information editing means 3 includes the daily flyer product information editing processing section 31.
operates, merges the information in the daily product sales information mask file 22 and the information in the mask file 15 using the source marking code or product code as a key, and outputs the merged information to the daily flyer product information master file 32. Figure 4 (b
) shows an example of the daily flyer product information mask file 32.

The selection conditions within the day of the week can be specified with parameter Y, and pest 7
It is possible to specify up to the number (X≧Y).

Referring to FIGS. 5(a) and 5(b), in the flyer advertisement layout book table output means 4, the flyer advertisement layout book table output processing unit 41 operates, inputs the daily flyer product information mask file 32, and prints the flyer. It is edited for advertisement and output to layout book table 42 of flyer advertisement. An example of the layout book table 42 is shown in FIG. 5(b). The day of the week/month/day on which output is required can be specified with a parameter, and all processing ends when all the required days/month/day of the week have been output.

〔Effect of the invention〕

As explained above, the present invention links product information and PO8 information, and automatically creates daily product sales information, information about each product on a flyer advertisement, and daily (day of the week, July, day) layout of the flyer advertisement. (1) The layout of the flyer advertisement matches sales trends.

(2) It is possible to reduce the man-hours and expenses required for the layout of flyer advertisements and the configuration of information about each product.

(3) Daily product flyer advertisements can be designed easily, and the number of shoppers on each day of the week/month can be balanced out without concentrating the number of shoppers only on sale days.

There is an effect.

[Brief explanation of drawings]

Fig. 1 is an explanatory diagram showing one embodiment of the present invention, Fig. 2 is an explanatory diagram showing a product information input means, Figs. 3 (a), (b),
(c) is an explanatory diagram showing a means for editing daily product sales information, FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing a means for editing daily flyer product information,
FIG. 5 is an explanatory diagram showing a flyer advertisement layout book table output means. 1...Product information input means, 2...Sales information editing means, 3...Flyer product information editing means, 4...Flyer advertisement layout book output stage.

Claims (1)

[Claims] An input means for registering and updating product information including a product code and selling price; a means for editing daily product sales information including the product code, month, day, and day of the week; A daily product flyer advertisement layout method comprising: means for editing separate flyer product information; and means for outputting a layout image of a flyer advertisement from the daily flyer product information.