JPH06314382A - Store controller - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve the output operation efficiency of a store front display medium by automatically outputting the desired store display medium on the basis of the setting contents of a sale price variation setting file. CONSTITUTION:The store controller(SC) 1 is provided with the sale variation setting file 7 which contains unit price variation information on the single sale codes of articles varied in unit price, a unit price variation period (bargain period), after-variation unit price, etc. Then this sale variation setting file 7 is retrieved at proper time to judge whether or not there is an article which is currently in the unit price variation period, and the article in the unit price variation period is controlled by the unit price of the article in an article master file 6 to the after-variation unit price. A flag indicating that output to the store front display medium is required together with the unit price variation information is set in this sale price variation setting file 7, and output information to the store front display medium is automatically edited on the basis of the corresponding unit price variation information, so that the desired store front display medium is outputted from output equipment.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to a supermarket,
The present invention relates to a store control device of a POS (point-of-sale information management) system used in a mass store such as a chain store.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, a POS system used in a mass-market store such as a supermarket or a chain store has a plurality of POS terminals for registering sales data of products purchased by customers, and these POS terminals are centralized. It is configured by connecting with a store control device to be managed through a communication means.

The store control device is provided with a product master file for setting and storing product unique information such as product name and unit price corresponding to the individual product code attached to each product sold in the store. The product registration processing in each POS terminal is controlled based on each information of the product master file.

On the other hand, at the store, a special sale period is set,
During this period, it is often practiced to reduce the price of a pre-designated product from the normal unit price to enhance the serviceability to customers and promote the sales.

Therefore, the store control device is provided with a selling price change setting file for setting and storing unit price change information such as a unit code of a product whose unit price is changed, a unit price change period, and a unit price after change.
For example, in the business before opening a store, this selling price change setting file is searched to automatically determine whether or not there is a product whose current date and time is within the unit price change period. For products within the unit price change period, the unit price of the corresponding product in the product master file is changed. The unit price is changed later so that it can be managed.

By the way, as shown in FIG. 7, the product name 71, the unit price 72, and the bar code 73 indicating the unit code of the corresponding product are displayed on the shelves displaying the products in a supermarket or the like.
A shelf label 70 on which, for example, is printed is attached to display the content of the product displayed on the shelf to the customer. Therefore, when the unit price is changed due to a special sale or the like, it is necessary to create and reattach the shelf label 70 of the corresponding product each time.

Further, during the special sale period, in order to strongly indicate to the customer that it is a special sale item, as shown in FIG. 6, in addition to the item name 61 and unit price 62 of the special sale item, it is attractive to attract to the customer. The pop sheet 60 on which the message 63 is printed may be created and attached to a key place in the store.

Therefore, the shelf label 70 and the pop sheet 60
In a supermarket that uses a store display medium such as a store label printer and a pop sheet printer, a shelf label 70 or a timely label label 70 is generated based on the contents of the selling price change setting file output from the store controller. The information necessary for the pop sheet 60 is manually set and output to each printer.

[0009]

As described above, in a store that outputs an in-store display medium on which information such as a unit price after change is printed every time the unit price of a product is changed by a special sale or the like, it corresponds to the selling price change setting file. In addition to the work of setting the unit price change information, it is necessary to output the contents of the selling price change setting file as a report and set the necessary information in the output device of the lighting display medium based on the contents of the report.

In this case, the information to be set in the output device of the lighting display medium is a single item code, a product name, a unit price before the change, a unit price after the change, a special sale period, etc., and most of them are set in the selling price change setting file. It overlapped with the information and was inefficient. In addition, it is necessary to manually set the necessary information in the output device while checking the report contents, and it may not be possible to obtain the necessary in-store display medium due to forgetting the setting.

Therefore, according to the present invention, it is possible to automatically output a desired in-store display medium based on the setting contents of the selling price change setting file, and it is possible to improve the efficiency of the in-store display medium output work and enhance the certainty. It is intended to provide a store controller.

[0012]

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION The present invention provides a product master file for setting and storing product unique information such as product name and unit price corresponding to a product code attached to each product. Selling price that controls the product registration process at each terminal connected via communication means based on the information, and sets and stores unit price change information such as the unit code of the product with unit price change, unit price change period, and unit price after change. A change setting file is provided, and this selling price change setting file is searched to determine whether there is a product whose current date and time is within the unit price change period,
For products within the unit price change period, connect the output device to the store display medium and change the unit price in the selling price change setting file in the store controller that changes and manages the unit price of the corresponding product in the product master file Set a flag that identifies whether or not output to the in-store display medium is required along with the information, and when this flag indicates that output is required, edit the output information to the in-store display medium based on the unit price change information of the relevant product. A means for outputting from the output device is provided.

[0013]

According to the present invention having such a structure, by setting the unit price change information and the flag indicating that the output to the in-store display medium is required in the selling price change setting file,
The output information to the in-store display medium is automatically edited based on the corresponding unit price change information, and the desired in-store display medium is output from the output device.

[0014]

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings.

FIG. 1 shows a store control device (S
C) is an overall view of a POS system in which 1 is an upper controller. As shown in the figure, this POS system includes a plurality of POS terminals (TM) 2 for registering product sales data.
And a file control device (FC) 3 for collecting sales data of products registered for sale at these POS terminals via a communication line 4, and the file control device 3 and the store control device 1 communicate with each other. It is configured by connecting with a line 5.

As shown in FIG. 2, the store control device 1 sets and stores product-specific information such as a product name and a unit price at the time of normal sale (normal unit price) corresponding to a unit product code attached to each product. A product master file 6 is provided, and the product registration processing in each POS terminal 2 connected via the communication line 5, the file control device 3, and the communication line 4 is controlled based on each information of the product master file 6. It is supposed to do.

Further, as shown in FIG. 3, the store control device 1 sets and stores unit price change information such as a unit code of a product whose unit price is changed, a unit price change period (special sale period), and a changed unit price (special sale unit price). A selling price change setting file 7 is provided. The selling price change setting file 7 is searched at a time to determine whether or not there is a product whose current date and time is within the unit price change period. The unit price of the corresponding product in 6 is changed to the unit price and is managed.

Here, in the product master file 6, the special sale unit price area 6a in which the changed unit price information is stored during the unit price change period, and the special sale flag which is set to "1" when the changed unit price information is valid. Area 6b is provided for each product.

On the other hand, the store control device 1 is connected with a pop printer 8 and a shelf label printer 9 for printing out a pop sheet 60 and a shelf label 70, which are display media for a store, respectively.

Then, in the selling price change setting file 7, as shown in FIG. 3, a pop flag for identifying whether or not output to the pop sheet 60 is required (output is required when "1", output is required when "0"). Area 7a (when output is unnecessary), area 7b for message 63 printed on the pop sheet 60, area 7c for printing date of the pop sheet 60, pop sheet 6
An area 7d for the number of printed sheets of 0, an area 7e for a label flag for identifying whether or not output to the shelf label 70 is required (output is required for "1", output is not required for "0"), and shelf label 70 An area 7f for the printing date and an area 7g for the number of printed sheets of the shelf label 70 are provided for each product requiring a unit price change.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram showing a main configuration of the store control device 1. In the figure, a CPU (central processing unit) 10 constitutes a control unit main body, and a ROM (read / write unit).
Each unit is controlled based on the control program stored in the (only memory) 11. The ROM 11 previously stores fixed data in addition to the control program. A RAM (random access memory) 12 temporarily stores variable data, and the product master file 6 and the selling price change setting file 7 are formed on the RAM 12.

The clock unit 13 measures the current date and time. The communication interface 14 controls data communication performed through the communication line 5. The HDD control circuit 15 controls writing and reading of data to and from a hard disk device (HDD) 16 used for backing up data on the RAM 12. The FDD control circuit 17 controls a floppy disk driver (FDD) 18 that writes and reads data to and from the floppy disk.

The keyboard control circuit 19 takes in key input data from a keyboard 20 provided with ten keys, character keys, execution keys, function keys and the like. The display control circuit 21 drives and controls a display 22 such as a CRT display to give display data.

The first printer control circuit 23 drives and controls a report printer 24 for printing a report and gives report print data. Second printer control circuit 2
Reference numeral 5 drives and controls the shelf label printer 9 to provide shelf label print data. The third printer control circuit 26 drives and controls the pop printer 8 to provide pop sheet print data.

The scanner control circuit 27 takes in the bar code data from the bar code scanner 28 for optically reading the bar code. Here, the CPU 10 and the ROM
11, RAM 12, clock unit 13, communication interface 1
4 and control circuits 15, 17, 19, 21, 23, 2
5, 26 and 27 are connected to each other by a bus line 29.

In such a structure, in the product master file 6 of the store control device 1, product-specific information such as a product name and a normal unit price is stored in advance in correspondence with the individual product code of each product.
For example, it is set by downloading from a floppy disk.

Further, the selling price change setting file 7 is also set with data relating to products whose unit price is temporarily changed due to a special sale or the like. The data setting operation for the selling price change setting file 7 is performed as follows using the keyboard 20 and the bar code scanner 28.

That is, after declaring the execution of the data setting work by the key operation, first, the bar code scanner 28 reads the single product code of the product whose unit price is to be changed. Next, the changed unit price and the special sale period of the product are input using the ten keys of the keyboard 20.

Next, the pop sheet 60 for the corresponding product
Whether or not to print, the pop flag “1” when printing, and the pop flag “0” when not printing
Key in. Further, when printing the pop sheet 60, each data of the message, the printing date, and the number of printed sheets is input by using the ten keys and the character keys.

Next, it is determined whether or not the shelf label 70 is to be printed for the corresponding product, and if printing is to be done, the label flag "1" is keyed in, and if not to be printed, the label flag "0" is keyed in. Further, when the shelf label 70 is printed, each data of the printing date and the number of printed sheets is input by using the ten keys.

When the execution key is operated and input after completing the data input, each input data is set in the empty area of the selling price change setting file 7.

Thus, the CPU 10 is programmed to execute the processing shown in the flow chart of FIG. 5, particularly in business after the store is closed.

That is, when this process is started, first, as ST (step) 1, the current date measured by the clock unit 13 is read. Further, as ST2, the read pointer p of the selling price change setting file 7 is initialized to "1".

Next, at ST3, the data indicated by the read pointer p from the selling price change setting file 7 (single product code, special selling price, special selling period, pop flag, pop message, pop printing date, pop printing number, label plug, label). Read the printing date and the number of labels printed. Here, if the data to be read is not set in ST4, this processing ends.

When there is data to be read from the selling price change setting file 7 in ST4, it is determined in ST5 whether the current date is within the special sale period in the read data.
If it is within the special sale period, the special sale unit price setting process for the product master file 6 is performed.

In this processing, if the product master file 6 is searched with the single product code in the data and it is confirmed that the corresponding single product code is set, the data is displayed in the special sale unit price area 6a corresponding to the single product code. Is a process for setting the post-change unit price (special sale unit price) and setting the special sale flag in the flag area 6b. If the special sale flag has already been set, the special sale unit price set in the special sale unit price area 6a is compared with the changed unit price in the data, and the smaller one is newly set as the special sale unit price.

Next, in ST7, the pop flag in the data is checked. If the current date is outside the special sale period, S
The process proceeds to ST7 without performing the process of T6.

If the pop flag is set to "1" in ST7, the data is read out for the unit price changed product requiring the printing of the pop sheet 60, so that the current date coincides with the pop printing date in the data in ST8. Determine whether or not.
If they match, the print processing of the pop sheet 60 is executed in ST9.

In this processing, when the product master file 6 is searched by the single product code in the data and it is confirmed that the corresponding single product code is set, the product name and the normal unit price corresponding to the single product code are read, This is a process of editing the pop sheet print data in a preset format with these information, the sale price in the data, and the pop message, and outputting the edited pop sheet print data to the pop printer 8.
The pop printer 8 operates and pop sheets 60 as shown in FIG. 6 are printed out by the number of pop prints in the data.

Next, in ST10, the label flag in the data is checked. If the pop flag is reset in ST7 and the current date does not match the pop print date in ST8, the process of ST9 is skipped and ST1 is skipped.
Go to 0.

When the label plug is set to "1" in ST10, since the data of the unit price changed product requiring the printing of the shelf label 70 is read out, the current date coincides with the label printing date in the data in ST11. Determine whether or not.
If they match, the shelf label 7 is set as ST12.
The print process of 0 is executed.

In this processing, if the product master file 6 is searched by the single product code in the data and it is confirmed that the corresponding single product code is set, the product name corresponding to the single product code is read out and this product name information is read. Is a process of editing the shelf label print data in a preset format with the single item code in the data, the special sale price, and the special sale period, and outputting the edited data to the shelf label printer 9. In operation, a shelf label 70 as shown in FIG. 7 is printed out for the number of labels printed in the data.

Next, at ST13, the read pointer p is updated by "+1". If the label flag is reset in ST10, and if the current date does not match the label printing date in ST11, the process of ST12 is skipped and the process proceeds to ST13.

At ST13, the read pointer p is set to "+".
1 "is updated, the process returns to ST3, the data indicated by the pointer p is read from the selling price change setting file 7,
The processes of ST4 to ST13 are repeated.

In this way, if the data to be read is not set in ST4, this process is terminated.

In the present embodiment thus constructed, the unit code of the product whose unit price is changed, the unit price change period,
By setting the unit price change information such as the unit price after change in the selling price change setting file 7 in advance, the corresponding product is automatically registered for sale at the unit price after change, not the normal unit price in the product master file 6 during the special sale period. .

When the pop sheet 60 is required for such a product whose unit price is changed, the unit price change information and the pop flag = are set in the selling price change setting file 7.
1, data for pop message, pop print date, and pop print number are set in advance. By doing so, when the pop printing date comes, the pop sheet print data is automatically edited based on the setting information of the selling price change setting file 7 and output to the pop printer 8, and the pop printer 8 is shown in FIG. Such pop sheets 60 are printed out by the number of pop prints. Incidentally, in FIG. 6, 61 is the product name of the selling price changed product, 62 is the normal unit price and the changed unit price, 6
3 is a pop message.

Therefore, for example, when the pop sheet 60 is created on the day before the start of the special sale period and attached to the main part of the store, the day before the special sale period is set as the pop printing date in advance, and the special sale period is set. It is possible to automatically and surely obtain the desired pop sheet 60 after closing the store on the day before the start of the period.

Similarly, when the shelf label 70 is required for a product whose unit price is changed, the selling price change setting file 7 is used.
In addition to the unit price change information, the label flag = 1, the label printing date, and the number of labels printed are set in advance. By doing so, on the label printing date, the shelf label print data is automatically edited based on the setting information of the selling price change setting file 7 and output to the shelf label printer 9,
Shelf label printer 9 to shelf label 7 as shown in FIG.
0 is printed out for the number of labels printed. Incidentally, in FIG. 7, 71 is the product name of the selling price changed product, 72 is the changed unit price,
Reference numeral 73 is a bar code of a single item code, and 74 is a special sale period.

Therefore, for example, when the shelf label 70 is created on the day before the start of the special sale period and is attached to the product display shelf, the day before the special sale period is set as the label printing date in advance, and the special sale period is set. The desired shelf label 70 can be automatically and surely acquired after the store is closed the day before the start.

For example, when the data specifically shown in FIG. 3 is set in the selling price change setting file 7, the regular unit price is 100 yen and the special sale unit price is 80 from April 1 to April 30.
For the product with the single item code “0001” that is discounted to a yen, two pop sheets 60 are automatically printed out from the pop printer 8 after closing on March 31.

This product is from April 15th to April 22nd
During the day, it will be discounted by 10 yen and sold at a unit price of 70 yen, and after closing the store on April 14 the day before, 2 new pop sheets 60 will automatically be output from the pop printer 8. It will be printed out.

On the other hand, between April 15 and April 22, the unit price "0002" for which the regular unit price is 200 yen is discounted to the special price unit price of 170 yen, is sold on April 14 after the store is closed. The label printer 9 automatically prints out one shelf label 70.

As described above, according to this embodiment, the necessary pop sheet 60 and the shelf label 70 can be automatically printed out at a desired time based on the information preset in the selling price change setting file 7. There is no need to output the contents of the selling price change setting file 7 as a report to create it, and it is necessary to set and input information that duplicates the unit price information set in the selling price change setting file 7 while checking this report content. Also disappears. As a result, the efficiency of the setting work can be improved, and mistakes of forgetting to set can be surely prevented.

Although the system for selectively outputting the pop sheet 60 and the shelf label 70 has been described in the above embodiment, it goes without saying that the present invention can be applied to a system for outputting to either one of the store display media. There is no such thing. Further, the present invention can be applied to a system in which, instead of printing out on the pop sheet 60 or the shelf label 70, information about a special sale product is displayed out on an electronic display board or the like.

Further, in the above-mentioned embodiment, the timing of changing the unit price and the timing of outputting the in-store display medium are simply managed by date, but the time may be taken into consideration. By doing so, it can be applied to a store with a sales method such as discounting depending on the time of day.

In the above embodiment, the dates to be output to the in-store display medium have been set. However, since it is usually necessary to output to these in-store display media by the day before the special sale period, the current date is the start date of the special sale period. The data of the day before may be selected and output to the store display medium. By doing so, it is not necessary to set the pop printing date and the label printing date.

In addition, various modifications can be made without departing from the scope of the present invention.

[0059]

As described above in detail, according to the present invention, it is possible to connect an output device to an in-store display medium and determine whether or not it is necessary to output unit price change information to the in-store display medium in the selling price change setting file. When the flag is set and the flag indicates that output is required, the output information to the store display medium is edited based on the unit price change information of the relevant product and output from the output device. It is possible to automatically output a desired store display medium based on the setting contents of, and to provide a store control device that can improve the efficiency of the store display medium output work and increase the certainty.

[Brief description of drawings]

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

FIG. 2 is a schematic diagram showing the configuration of a product master file in the same embodiment.

FIG. 3 is a schematic diagram showing a configuration of a selling price change setting file in the embodiment.

FIG. 4 is a block diagram of a main part of the store control device in the embodiment.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing processing according to the present invention executed by the CPU of the store control device in the embodiment.

FIG. 6 is a plan view showing a print example of a pop sheet.

FIG. 7 is a plan view showing an example of printing of shelf labels.

[Explanation of symbols]

 1 ... STOF controller 2 ... POS terminal 6 ... Product master file 7 ... Selling price change setting file 8 ... Pop printer 9 ... Shelf label printer 60 ... Pop sheet 70 ... Shelf label

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A product master file for setting and storing product unique information such as a product name and a unit price corresponding to a single product code attached to each product is provided, and communication means is used based on each information of the product master file. In addition to controlling the product registration process at each connected terminal, a selling price change setting file that stores and stores the unit price change information such as the unit product code of the product with the unit price change, the unit price change period, and the unit price after the change is provided. A store that searches the change setting file to determine whether there is a product whose current date and time is within the unit price change period, and manages the products within the unit price change period by changing the unit price of the corresponding product in the product master file to the unit price after change. In the control device, connect an output device to the store display medium, and output to the store display medium together with unit price change information in the selling price change setting file. A means for setting a flag for identifying whether or not it is necessary, and when the flag indicates that the output is necessary, editing the output information to the in-store display medium based on the unit price change information of the corresponding product and outputting it from the output device. A store control device comprising: