JPH05334567A - Pos unitary management device - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To enable plural stores to unitarily manage various kinds of information concerning sales. CONSTITUTION:A gas station POS terminal 11 is disposed at a gas station, and a POS terminal 13 for retail store arrange in line is disposed at retail store arranged in a line to the gas stand, and they are connected to a POS unitary management part 16 by way of a communication line 15. The POS unitary management part 16 is provided with an information processing mechanism 23 processing the tabulation of proceeds, etc., in real time, a hard disk 22 storing a file such as the proceeds tabulation file 31, etc., and a control part 21 controlling each part. Thus, the respective POS terminals 11 and 13 can freely output various kinds of data inputted from mutually the other terminals and the content of the hard disk 22.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a POS centralized management device for centrally managing POS terminals at a store where a gas station and a retail store are arranged in parallel.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In order to allow customers who use gas stations to purchase various products, it has become common to install retail stores such as convenience stores and so-called car shops in parallel at the gas stations. In such a case, conventionally, the gas station and the retail store each have their own POS (Point Of Sales) terminals, and each manages sales information, product information, customer information, vehicle information, etc. independently of each other. Was becoming.

[0003]

As described above, in the related art, the gas station and the retail store, which are arranged side by side, have their own POS terminals and manage them in a closed form. Therefore, the following problems occur. there were.

Although these stores have common information such as vehicle information or customer information, information such as sales information, merchandise information, customer information, and vehicle information is managed separately, and these are managed separately. It was not possible to utilize it centrally.

Purchasing information among customer information is an important factor for promoting sales. However,
These POS terminals can be separated from each other by the distance between the stores, and even if the purchase information is input to the other POS terminal, the customer inputs the purchase information after using the store.
There was a problem that information was lacking in immediacy.

[0006] Generally, the POS terminal has a cash register function, and is installed in a place where the customer can see it due to its character. Therefore, it is usually used for inputting the sales at all times, and there is an inconvenience that the sales information and the like cannot be confirmed at a desired time.

[0007] The problem in the case where a gas station and a retail store are installed side by side has been described above. However, a customer who has common information, such as a hotel and a souvenir store, uses a plurality of stores (or facilities). There was a similar problem when doing.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to enable a plurality of stores to centrally manage various information regarding sales.
To provide an OS unified management device.

[0009]

According to a first aspect of the present invention, there are provided POS terminals individually arranged in respective stores which are different from each other in business type and close to each other in location, and these POS terminals.
Connected to the terminal, information about the customer is exchanged between these POS
PO with customer information providing means that can be accessed between terminals
S Unified management device is equipped with.

That is, according to the first aspect of the present invention, the POS terminal individually arranged in each store is connected to the customer information providing means, and the customer information can be mutually accessed between them to achieve the above-mentioned object. To achieve.

According to the second aspect of the invention, one of the stores connected to the customer information providing means is a gas station,
Clarified that the information about the customer includes at least the name of the vehicle owned by the customer, the customer code representing the customer, the customer name, and the sales promotion information. The invention according to claim 2 shows a case where a gas station and a retail store such as a convenience store are combined. In this case, for example, it is possible to provide sales promotion activities such as providing information that leads to purchase based on past purchase information to customers who have come to refuel at gas stations, or to provide useful information to customers.

According to the third aspect of the invention, the customer information providing means includes the card information reading means. When the customer uses the card, the card information is read from the card information reading means, and the information about the customer is updated using the customer code in the card information as a key. This facilitates unified management of the POS terminal.

[0013]

EXAMPLES The present invention will be described in detail below with reference to examples.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a store area in which the POS integrated management device according to one embodiment of the present invention is arranged. This store area is connected to a gas station 12 where a gas station POS terminal 11 is arranged, a side-by-side retail shop 14 where a side-by-side retail store POS terminal 13 is arranged, and these communication lines 15 and POS terminals 11 and 13. POS
It is composed of a management room 17 in which a unified management unit 16 is arranged. The gas station 12 and the side-by-side retail store 14 are arranged so as to face the road 18, and also the side-by-side retail store 14 can be accessed from the side of the gas station 12 through a door (not shown).

FIG. 1 shows a circuit configuration of the POS integrated management device. Here, the management room 1 shown in FIG.
The POS integrated management unit 16 of 7 is concrete. POS
The unified management unit 16 includes a control unit 21 that is the center of control. The control unit 21 is composed of, for example, a CPU (central processing unit), a work memory, a ROM (read only memory), an input / output port, etc., and manages various kinds of information of customers etc. according to a predetermined program. It has become.

The control unit 21 is connected to a hard disk 22, an information processing mechanism 23, an information transfer mechanism 24, a CRT display device 25, a keyboard (KB) 26, a printer 27 and an ID card read / write (R / W) device 28. ing. Here, the hard disk 22 includes a sales totalization file 31, a product master file 32, a customer master file 33, and a vehicle master file 34.

Here, the customer master file 33 includes a customer code, a name, an attribute, and sales information about the customer,
The vehicle master file 34 is the name of the vehicle owned by the customer,
It consists of model, year and maintenance information.

The information processing mechanism 23 is a mechanism for processing information for displaying or the like, and the information transfer mechanism 24 communicates with the gas station POS terminal 11 and the side-by-side retail store POS terminal 13 via the communication line 15. Is a mechanism for giving and receiving. The communication line 15 is composed of a bus type LAN (local area network), and in this embodiment, 4
It enables high-speed communication of Mbps (megabit / second).

The CRT display device 25 is a device for visually displaying input data, output data, etc., and the keyboard 26 is used for inputting data for various management and for displaying desired forms, graphs or tables. It is a device that gives an instruction to output. The printer 27 is for outputting a desired form, and for example, a dot printer or a laser printer is used. The ID card / read / write device 28 creates an ID card to be carried by the customer, as well as the customer master file 33 and the vehicle master file 3.
It is a device for inputting a customer card to be the key of No. 4 from an ID card.

The operation of the POS integrated management device having the above configuration will be described. Upon request, the control unit 21 accesses a desired one of the file groups 31 to 34 in the hard disk 22, and accesses the requested one via the information transfer mechanism 24 to the gas station POS terminal 11 or the side-by-side retail store POS. It can be transferred to the terminal 13. Communication line 1
Since 5 is capable of high-speed communication as described above, the gas station POS terminal 11 and the parallel retail store POS
The terminal 13 can handle these file groups 31 to 34 as if they were files in its own POS terminal. Further, the data input to the gas station POS terminal 11 or the side-by-side retail store POS terminal 13 can be handled like the data of its own POS terminal via the POS integrated management unit 16.

Therefore, the POS terminals 11 and 13 can freely search the product master file 32, the customer master file 33, and the vehicle master file 34 from the POS integrated management section 16 and always obtain the latest information. .. The information processing mechanism 23 collects the sales information. That is, the information processing mechanism 23 inputs the information that the gas station POS terminal 11 and the side-by-side retail store POS terminal 13 output to a file in the hard disk 22 for each sale, and outputs the information to the sales totalization file 31 in real time. In addition, the information processing mechanism 23 reads information from the sales totalization file 31 according to an instruction from the keyboard 26, and outputs a table or graph to the CRT display device 25 or a form to the printer 27 at any time. It has become.

Further, the information processing mechanism 23 uses the customer code in the sales information of the gas station POS terminal 11 and the side-by-side retail store POS terminal 13 as a key, and when the same key is present in the customer master file 33, the customer Purchasing information is updated in real time. Therefore, both the gas station POS terminal 11 side and the side-by-side retail store POS terminal 13 side can obtain a wide range of customer purchase information.

In the embodiment described above, the information processing mechanism 23 played a central role in information processing. However, in order to realize such a function, the information processing mechanism 23 has its own C.
PU may be assigned, and such a function may be performed by the control unit 2.
You may transfer to 1.

[0024]

As described above, according to the present invention, the POS terminals individually arranged in the stores which are different in business type and close to each other in location are linked to be centrally managed, and the information about the customer is stored. We decided to use each other. Therefore, not only can it be used for sales promotion, but also for the customer, the product can be purchased effectively using time. Further, the sales management of the POS terminal can be efficiently grasped at a desired time by this unified management. Furthermore, since it is real-time processing, there is an advantage that the latest information can always be obtained.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a block diagram showing a circuit configuration of a POS integrated management device according to an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a plan view of a store area in which a POS integrated management device according to an embodiment of the present invention is arranged.

[Explanation of symbols]

 11 Gas station POS terminal 12 Gas station 13 Side-by-side retail store POS terminal 14 Side-by-side retail store 15 Communication line 16 POS integrated management unit 21 Control unit 22 Hard disk 23 Information processing mechanism 24 Information transfer mechanism 31 Sales summary file 32 Product master file 33 Customer master file 34 Vehicle master file

Claims (3)

[Claims] 1. A POS terminal individually arranged in each store whose business type is different from each other and close to each other in location, and information about customers connected to these POS terminals is mutually accessible between these POS terminals. An integrated POS management device comprising a customer information providing unit. 2. One of the stores is a gas station, and the information regarding the customer includes at least a name of a vehicle owned by the customer, a customer code representing the customer, a customer name, and sales promotion information. The integrated POS management device according to claim 1. 3. The customer information providing means includes card information reading means for reading the card information from a card owned by the customer, and updates the information about the customer by using the customer code in the card information as a key. The integrated POS management device according to claim 1.