JPH05325034A - Pos system - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To set different selling prices on respective terminals according to the installation places and to control the quantities of merchandises which are sold, counter by counter. CONSTITUTION:A controller 2 to which the terminal devices 3a, 3b... and 4a, 4b... are connected is provided with a table 5 storing the relation between discrimination data for discriminating the terminal devices and kinds for classifying the terminal devices and a file 6 storing merchandise data by the kinds, article by article. The controller 2 retrieves a kind corresponding to discrimination data, sent from a terminal device together with merchandise data, in the table 5, and retrieves corresponding merchandise data on the basis of the merchandise code sent from the terminal device and the kind read out of the table 5 and sends the data to the terminal device.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a POS system for transmitting and receiving product data between a controller and a terminal device such as an electronic cash register of a store.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In a POS system for collecting information at the time of sale for the purpose of managing data relating to transaction processing of products, a terminal device and a controller installed in a single or a plurality of stores are connected to each other via a data transmission line. The data is transmitted and received between the two.

This POS system is provided with a file for storing product data called a PLU file, and the selling price and the sales quantity of each of all the products that may be sold in the store to which the POS system is applied. An area for storing product data such as is provided. In a conventional POS system, generally, a controller searches a file for a selling price corresponding to a product code transmitted from a terminal device, transmits the selling price data to the terminal device, and accumulates and stores the sales quantity data. As a result, the selling price of the product is handled uniformly in the system, and the sales quantity of each product is applied to inventory management such as determining the order quantity of the product.

[0004]

In a mass-market store such as a supermarket to which the POS system is applied, the same product may be sold at a plurality of sales floors at different selling prices. For example, the same dry cell may be sold at each of the toy department, the household goods department, and the electric appliance department, and there are cases where it is desired to set different selling prices at the respective departments due to the in-store configuration. However, in the conventional POS system, such a request cannot be answered because the PLU file included in the controller has only one item data such as the selling price stored for each item. Also, for the same product, the sales quantity at multiple sales floors is managed collectively, so it is not possible to manage the sales quantity at each sales floor individually, and inventory management such as the number of replenishments at each sales floor is not possible. Had a problem that required a different system.

An object of the present invention is to configure a file provided in a controller by a plurality of areas for storing a plurality of product data for each single product and store the files in different areas for each grouped terminal device. By sending and receiving product data, it is possible to set different selling prices for products that may be sold at multiple sales floors and to manage the sales volume for each sales floor. It is possible to provide a POS system that enables the management of inventory for each sales floor.

[0006]

A POS system of the present invention is a POS system for transmitting and receiving product data including a selling price and a sales quantity of each product between a controller and a plurality of terminal devices. A file having a plurality of areas for storing product data of types, a relationship storage unit for storing the relationship between the identification data transmitted at the time of access from the terminal device and the plurality of types, and the identification transmitted from the terminal device. And a type search unit that searches the relation storage unit for a type for specifying an area for storing product data to be transmitted / received based on the data.

[0007]

In the POS system of the present invention, the type to which the terminal device corresponds is specified based on the identification data transmitted at the time of access from the terminal device, and a plurality of types of products stored in the file for each product. Among the data, the product data of the corresponding type is transmitted / received to / from the terminal device. Therefore, different product data is transmitted / received to / from the terminal devices of different types even if they are the same product.

[0008]

1 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a POS system according to an embodiment of the present invention.

In the POS system 1, the controller 2 has a plurality of terminal devices 3a, 3b, ... And 4a, 4b ,.
・ Is connected via a data transmission line. These terminal devices 3a, 4a, etc. are installed in each sales floor in the store.
Each CR is equipped with a bar code reader that reads product data from a bar code attached to each product.

The controller 2 uses these terminal devices 3a,
Product data such as product name, sales price, and sales quantity is transmitted and received to and from 4a and the like. The controller 2 is provided with a table 5 and a file 6.

As shown in FIG. 2, the table 5 includes terminal device IDs transmitted from the terminal devices 3a and 4a, respectively.
The relationship between identification data such as a sales floor code or a staff code and a type is stored. For example, when the ID code of the terminal device is transmitted from the terminal device 3 a together with the product code, the controller 2 displays the I of the terminal device in the table 5.
Search the type corresponding to the D code. File 6 contains
As shown in FIG. 3, a product name corresponding to each product code is stored, and an area for storing price data and quantity data for each product is provided. The controller 2 sends the price data stored in the area corresponding to the type read from the table 5 in the storage area corresponding to the product code transmitted from the terminal devices 3a, 4a, etc. in the file 6 together with the product name to the terminal device. Then, the quantity data transmitted from the terminal device is integrated in the corresponding area.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a part of a processing procedure of the controller and the terminal device which constitute the POS system. Each of the terminal devices 3a, 4a, etc., reads the product code from the bar code during transaction processing (n1), and inputs the sales quantity (n2),
The product code and the quantity data are transmitted to the controller 2 together with the identification code. When the controller 2 receives the product data while waiting for the input of the product data (n11, n12), it reads the type corresponding to the identification code included in the product data from the table 5 (n13).
Then, each data corresponding to the read type and the product code input from the terminal device is searched in the file 6, and the corresponding price data is transmitted to the terminal device (n14, n15). Further, the quantity data included in the product data transmitted from the terminal device is integrated in the area corresponding to the type and the product code (n16).

The terminal device receiving the price data transmitted from the controller calculates the sales amount based on the price data and the quantity data (n4, n5). N1 to n
After performing the process of 5 for all the purchased products, the sales amounts of all the products are added together in the production process (n6,
n7), and displays the total amount (n8).

As described above, according to this embodiment, the ID code unique to the terminal device is used as identification data to identify the type in which the terminal device is included, and a plurality of types stored in each product in the file 6 are specified. Of the price data for each, price data of the corresponding type is transmitted to the terminal device. At the same time, the quantity data transmitted from the terminal device is integrated in the storage area of the quantity data of the corresponding type in the file. Therefore, for example, in FIG. 1, different prices are set for the dry batteries that may be sold at the terminal device 3a in the household goods department, the terminal device 3b in the grocery department, and the terminal device 4a in the toy department, respectively. If desired, the price data different for each type as the selling price of the dry battery is written in advance in the file 6, so that the selling price suitable for the selling point can be obtained based on the identification data unique to the terminal device of each selling point. The transaction processing can be performed at a selling price that is transmitted to the device and is different for each sales floor. Further, since the sales quantity is added up for each sales floor, inventory management for each sales floor can be easily performed.

A sales floor code or a staff code may be used as the identification data transmitted from the terminal device to the controller 2.

As shown in FIG. 5, the controller 2
The file 16 provided in the above may be divided and configured for each type. For example, when proper-type sales floors and tenant-type sales floors are mixed in the store, the selling price of each product in the proper-type sales floor is stored in the file 16a, and the data such as the selling price of the products in the tenant-type sales floor is stored in a file. By storing it in 16b, the data stored in the file 16a is transmitted to the terminal device installed in the proper sales floor, and the data is stored in the file 16b for the terminal device installed in the tenant sales floor. The stored product data is transmitted.

Further, all types of data corresponding to the product code of each product are transmitted to the terminal device, and each terminal device selects only the data corresponding to the type corresponding to its own identification code and uses it for the transaction processing. You can

[0018]

According to the present invention, for a single product, individual selling prices and the like can be easily set for terminal devices having different sales floors and the like, and at the same time, in each terminal device. There is an advantage that the sales quantity can be managed individually.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a diagram showing a configuration of a POS system that is an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a diagram showing stored contents of a table provided in a controller that constitutes the POS system.

FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a part of stored contents of a file provided in the controller.

FIG. 4 is a flowchart showing a part of a processing procedure of a file and a terminal device which constitute the POS system.

FIG. 5 is a diagram showing a controller constituting a POS system according to another embodiment of the present invention.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1-POS system 2-Controller 3a, 3b, 4a, 4b-Terminal device 5-Table 6-File

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. In a POS system for transmitting and receiving product data including a sales price and a sales quantity for each product between a controller and a plurality of terminal devices, a plurality of areas for storing a plurality of types of product data for each product are provided. A file provided, a relationship storage unit that stores the relationship between the identification data transmitted at the time of access from the terminal device and the plurality of types, and the product data to be transmitted and received based on the identification data transmitted from the terminal device. A POS system for searching the type for specifying the area to be searched in the relation storage means.