JPH07168979A - Article sale registered data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE:To improve reliability in the sales control according to persons in charge by making an only employee at office passible to sign on and also making even an employee who does not complete an attendance procedure by using an attending and leaving his office terminal possible to sign on, on the condition to take a special procedure. CONSTITUTION:Each terminal equipment 10A to 10N is provided with attending and leaving inquiry control means 11 and 12, sign-on execution permission control means 11 and 12, sign-on inhibition control means 11 and 12, a special procedure execution declaration means 5 and inhibition release control means 11 and 12. In principle, the equipment is formed so as to execute sign-on in the terminal equipment 10 by the only employee recognized as being at office by the attending and leaving control function on the side of a host equipment 30. Exceptionally, the equipment is formed so as to execute sign-on by even an employee who does not complete an attendance procedure, subject to the special procedure by a high-ranking person in charge, etc. Therefore, an inconvenience such as the sales of an employee who is not at office which is added to the sales data collected on the side of the host equipment 30 can be swept away.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a product sales registration data processing device in which a terminal device having a sign-on function and a host device having a time and attendance management function are connected so as to be capable of data communication.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art In FIG. 4, a plurality of terminal machines 1 each having a sign-on function and capable of executing a commodity sales registration operation.
0A to 10N and a higher-level device (for example, a host computer) 30 that manages the terminals 10A to 10N as a whole are connected to each other by wired or wireless data communication lines 1 and 2, and a product sales registration data processing device is widely spread. ing.

Each of the terminal machines 10A to 10N is installed, for example, in a sales floor of a supermarket, and has a host device 30.
Is located in the control room or in a remote headquarters. Focusing on the data processing capability and overall management capability of the host device 30, the host device 30 is provided with a time and attendance management function that manages the attendance and leaving of all employees who work in the supermarket. The attendance / leaving terminal 40 for inputting employee information (employee code) is arranged at an employee entrance / exit of a supermarket, and is connected to the host device 30 by the data communication line 3.

In such a product sales registration data processing device,
The employee inputs the employee code using his or her employee card at the time and attendance terminal 40. That is, the card reader 45
The employee code read in step 6 is temporarily stored together with the time (time) (YES in ST50, ST5 in FIG. 6).
1). Then, the host device 30 via the data communication line 3
Is transferred (ST52) and then cleared (S52)
T53).

On the side of the host device 30, reception (ST6 of FIG.
Temporarily store employee code etc. (YES of 0) (ST61)
Then, the attendance management table 33T is searched (ST62). If the employee is not in attendance, attendance processing (S
T64), and if it has already gone to work, it will be processed (ST65).
To do. Therefore, it is possible to uniformly and accurately manage attendance / leaving of all employees on the side of the higher-level device 30.

[0006] Now, the cashier of the employees who have come to work enters the product sales registration business after signing on at the terminal machine 10 in charge. This sign-on is shown in Figure 5.
The procedure is shown in. That is, the employee's own card is placed on the card reader 25. The read employee code is temporarily stored (YES in ST40, ST41). Subsequently, the cashier inputs his employee code by key operation. In other words, enter the person in charge (Y in ST42)
S).

Then, the CPU searches the RAM or the like in which a plurality of responsible persons are registered and stored (ST43), and collates and determines whether or not the inputted responsible person is one of the plurality of responsible persons ( ST44). Then, when it is determined that the input responsible person is authorized (YES in ST44), the sign-on process is executed (ST45). If the person in charge is not registered and memorized, or if he / she makes a mistake (ST44 N
O) is sign-on error processing (ST46).

[0008] Thus, the terminal device (10A) can execute the merchandise sales registration work under the signed-on person in charge. Therefore, the sales amount at the terminal machine (10A) is managed as the sales of the person in charge in the higher-level device 30 later. In addition, the person in charge is responsible for matching the sales amount and the change balance after closing the store and managing these amounts.

[0009]

By the way, there is a case where an employee who is called up urgently due to the busyness of the store must immediately sign on at his / her terminal machine (10A) to engage in product sales registration work. In such a case, there are cases in which the attendance / leaving terminal 40 cannot or cannot perform attendance procedures too quickly. Then, the higher-level device 3 later
There is a mismatch that sales of employees who are not at work are included in the sales data collected on the 0 side.
Therefore, the reliability of sales management by responsible person is lowered, and the post-processing regarding attendance of the employee concerned becomes troublesome.

In addition, it sometimes happens that another employee or an outsider who picks up the employee card of an employee who is not in attendance signs on using the employee card. In such a case, inconvenience may occur, such as the money in the drawer being stolen.

An object of the present invention is to provide a merchandise sales registration data processing device capable of signing on only to employees who are working or who have undergone a special procedure by a senior manager, etc. even if the procedure has not been completed. is there.

[0012]

[Means for Solving the Problems] The above-mentioned problems caused by the fact that employees who have not been attending work are signed on is that the attendance / leaving management function on the higher-level device side and the sign-on function on each terminal side are performed asynchronously. Focusing on the fact that it is not practical to completely prohibit the situation that you have to go to the product sales registration business at the terminal machine even if the attendance procedure at the attendance terminal is not completed However, in principle, the present invention enables only employees who are in attendance to sign on, and exceptionally even employees who have not completed attendance procedures using the attendance / leaving terminal are subject to special procedures, such as by a senior manager. It is configured so that you can sign on as.

That is, the merchandise sales registration data processing device according to the present invention enables data communication between a plurality of terminal devices having a sign-on function and capable of executing merchandise sales registration operations and a host device for overall management. In the product sales registration data processing device provided with a time and attendance management function that performs attendance and attendance management of employees based on the employee information input from the attendance and attendance terminal to the higher-level device, the sign-on function is added to each terminal machine. The attendance / leaving inquiry control means for inquiring to the higher-level device whether or not the employee corresponding to the employee information read at the time of executing the above, and the response from the higher-level device that the employee is working There was a response from the host device that signon execution permission control means permitting the execution of the signon function and that the employee was not in attendance. The sign-on prohibition control means for prohibiting the execution of the sign-on function, the special procedure execution declaration means for declaring execution of the special procedure, and the declaration for executing the special procedure are provided. Prohibition cancellation control means for canceling the prohibition state by the sign-on prohibition control means on condition that it is done.

[0014]

In the case of the present invention configured as described above, when an employee inputs employee information to sign on at the terminal machine in charge, the attendance / leaving inquiry control means inquires of the host device whether or not the employee is at work. When there is a response from the host device that the employee is at work, the sign-on execution permission control means permits execution of the sign-on function. Therefore, you can immediately sign on and start product sales registration.

On the other hand, when there is a response that the employee is not at work, the sign-on prohibition control means prohibits execution of the sign-on function. Therefore, it is possible to eliminate the above-mentioned conventional inconvenience caused by an employee who does not go to work signing on and registering a product sale. However, even if sign-on is prohibited, the employee may be required to immediately engage in product sales registration. In this case, a higher-ranking person, etc., will perform a special procedure using the special procedure execution declaration means. Then, the prohibition release control means operates to release the prohibition state by the sign-on prohibition control means. Therefore, the employee can perform normal sign-on.

[0016] In such a case, since the senior manager who has performed a special procedure can relatively easily supplement the attendance procedure for the employee, the employee can continue the merchandise sales registration business as it is and It is possible to easily solve problems such as sales of employees who do not go to work later.

[0017]

Embodiments of the present invention will be described below with reference to the drawings. As shown in FIG. 1, the product sales registration data processing device has the same basic configuration as that of the conventional example (FIG. 4), and each terminal machine 10A to 10N has attendance / leaving inquiry control means (11, 12) and a signature. ON execution permission control means (1
1, 12) and sign-on prohibition control means (11, 12)
The special procedure execution declaration means (5) and the prohibition cancellation control means (11, 12) are provided, and in principle, only the employees who are recognized as being in attendance by the attendance management function of the host device 30 side can operate the terminal device 10. It is formed so that sign-on can be performed, and exceptionally even employees who have not completed attendance procedures can perform sign-on subject to special procedures by the senior manager.

Further, in this embodiment, special attendance procedure control means (11, 12) for performing special attendance procedures are provided, and the special procedure execution declaration means (5) and prohibition release control means (11, 12).
For employees who are allowed to perform sign-on by special procedures in collaboration with 12), the employee information entered when signing on at the terminal machine (10A) can be used to automatically go to the high-level equipment 30 for attendance procedures. Is configured.

In FIG. 1, a terminal machine 10A (10
B to 10N) are CPU 11, ROM 12, RAM 1
3, interface for floppy disk 15 (I
/ F) 14, fixed disk device 17 interface (I / F) 16, ISDN interface (I / F)
F) 18, a control unit including a LAN interface (I / F) 19 and the like, a keyboard 20, a scanner 21 and a cashier display 22C which are connected via respective control circuits.
It includes an SH, a customer display 22CST, a printer 24, a card reader 25, and a device section including a drawer 23 automatically opened by a drawer opening device. When the key switch 5 is used to switch to the registration mode, publicly-known merchandise sales registration business processing can be performed.

The scion function of this terminal 10A is the same as that of the conventional example (ST40 to ST46 in FIG. 5) (ST10 to ST14, ST22, S in FIG. 2).
T24). Employee information (employee code) is a card reader 2
5 is used to read and input (ST10 in FIG. 2). Further, the person in charge (employee code) is input using the person in charge key 20C on the keyboard 20 (ST12).

The host device 30 includes a CPU 31, a ROM 3
2, including a RAM 33, an interface (I / F) 34, an input / output port (I / O) 35, etc., and each terminal unit 1
Collect sales data, etc. from 0A to 10N and perform overall management. The attendance management function is a conventional example (ST60 to ST in FIG. 7).
This is the same as the case of 65). Attendance management table 33T
Is provided in a partial storage area of the RAM 33.

The attendance / leaving terminal 40 includes a CPU 41 and a ROM 4
2, RAM 43, clock circuit 44, card reader 45, display 46, and input / output port (I / O) 47, and has the same function as the conventional example (ST50 to ST53 in FIG. 6).

Now, the attendance / leaving inquiry control means provided on the side of the terminal machine 10A determines whether or not the employee corresponding to the employee information (employee code) read at the time of executing the sign-on function is at the upper device 30 side. 2 is formed by the CPU 11 and the ROM 12,
It is executed at 15.

In connection with this, the attendance / leaving response control means provided on the side of the upper device 30 is formed of a CPU 31 and a ROM 32, and is executed in ST30 to ST34 of FIG. That is, when the attendance inquiry is received (YES in ST30), the CPU 31 searches the attendance management table 33T (S).
Then, it is determined whether or not the employee is at work (ST32). Then, it is determined that he is working (ST3
When YES in 2), the attendance response is made (ST33). When it is determined that the employee has not gone to work (NO in ST32), a response to leave the office is made (ST34).

Next, the sign-on execution permission control means on the terminal device 10A side responds to the attendance response from the host device 30 (see FIG. 2).
By the means of permitting the execution of the sign-on function on condition that there is YES in ST16 and YES in ST17
Formed from U11 and ROM 12, Y in ST17 of FIG.
It is executed in ES and ST22.

The sign-on prohibition control means for this is
Leave response from host device 30 (YES in ST16 of FIG. 2,
The CPU 11 and the ROM 1 are means for prohibiting the execution of the sign-on function on the condition that there is (NO in ST17).
2 and is executed in ST19 of FIG. At this time, the CPU 11 is configured to display a sign-on error on the cashier display 22CSH (ST18).

Next, the special procedure execution declaring means is means for declaring that a special procedure for canceling the sign-on prohibition state is executed, and is formed from the key switch 5 shown in FIG. In other words, it is formed so that a person in charge such as a sales floor manager can only make a declaration using a key carried by him.

The prohibition release control means is provided with the sign-on prohibition control means (11, 1) on condition that the special procedure execution declaration is made using the key switch 5 (YES in ST20 of FIG. 2).
By means of releasing the prohibited state (ST19) by 2), C
It is formed of the PU 11 and the ROM 12, and is executed in ST21 of FIG.

The execution declaration of the special procedure is set at the set time T.
If not exercised within s (NO in ST20, Y in ST23)
ES) means that the employee has not completed the attendance procedure.
Sign-on error processing is performed (ST24). Set time T
The setting of s can be changed by the setting key 20S on the keyboard 20.

The prohibition release control means (11, 12) cancels the prohibition state (ST21), and at the same time, the special attendance procedure control means (11, 12) operates, and ST1 of FIG.
The employee code input at 0 is transferred to the host device 30 side via the ISDN interface 18 and the data communication line 2 (ST21). Then, only in this case, the higher-level device 30 stores the information in the time and attendance management table 33T as if the special attendance process of the employee was performed.

Next, the operation of this embodiment will be described. The employee who goes to work enters his / her employee information (employee code) by pulling his / her employee card with the card reader 45 of the attendance / leaving terminal 40 (FIG. 6). Upon receiving the transferred employee code, the higher-level device 30 side processes attendance and stores it in the attendance management table 33T (FIG. 7).

This employee signs on when performing the product sales registration work at the terminal machine 10A in charge. That is, the card reader 2 of the terminal machine 10A
Draw your employee card at 5. The employee code thus read is temporarily stored (YES in ST10 of FIG. 2,
ST11). Continuing, key 2 on the keyboard 20
Enter the person in charge using 0C (YES in ST12). Then, the CPU 11 searches the RAM 13 (ST13) and determines whether or not the input responsible person (employee code) is one of the registered responsible persons (ST).
14).

It is determined that the person is the official person in charge (Y in ST14).
ES), attendance and attendance inquiry control means (11, 12)
Is a higher-level device 3
Contact 0 (ST15). If it is determined that the person is not the authorized person (NO in ST14), the sign-on error process (ST24) is performed.

Receive an inquiry (YES in ST34 of FIG. 3)
Attendance response control means (31, 3
2) searches the attendance management table 33T (ST31)
If it is determined that the user is working (YES in ST32), the attendance response is sent to the terminal machine 10A (ST33). If it is determined that the person has not gone to work (NO in ST32), a leaving response (ST34) is made.

When the response is received (YES in ST14 of FIG. 2), the terminal machine 10A side is a response to attendance (S
YES in T17) is sign-on execution permission control means (1
1, 12) permits execution of the sign-on function (ST1
(7: YES). As a result, the above input (YE of ST10)
A sign-on process is performed based on S, YES in ST12) (ST22). Therefore, the unauthorized sign-on of employees who are not in attendance and outsiders can be wiped out.

In the case of a response to leave the office (NO in ST17), the sign-on prohibition control means (11, 12) prohibits sign-on (ST18). Prior to this, the CPU 11 displays a sign-on error on the cashier display 22CSH (ST18). This message includes a message such as requesting special procedures from the senior manager if you have to sign on without attending work.

Thus, when the senior manager requested by the employee decides that he / she wants to immediately engage in the merchandise sales registration work, he / she makes a special procedure execution declaration using the key switch 5 forming the special procedure execution declaration means. (Y in ST20
ES).

Then, the prohibition cancellation control means (11, 12)
However, the prohibition state by the sign-on prohibition control means (11, 12) is released (ST21). At this time, in this embodiment, the special attendance procedure control means (11, 12) operates, and ST
The employee code entered in 10 is the ISDN I / F1
8. Transfer to the upper device 30 side via the data communication line 2 (ST21). In this case, the CPU 3 in the host device 30
1 exceptionally performs attendance processing for the employee in the attendance management table 33T. The later contradiction can be resolved.

Therefore, even if an employee who takes up his / her own terminal machine 10A without performing attendance procedures at the attendance / leaving terminal 40 receives the necessity of the special procedure execution declaration of the senior manager, he / she just signs on (ST22). Enter into product sales registration business.

However, when this exceptional special procedure execution declaration is not exercised within the preset set time Ts,
The sign-on error processing is performed in compliance with the principle that only employees who have performed a predetermined attendance procedure at the time and attendance terminal 40 can sign on.

After the special procedure execution declaration is made by the key switch 5, the upper manager inputs the employee's attendance time from the keyboard 20 so that the employee code and the attendance time are also transmitted to the superior device 30. May be.
According to this, the unregistered recovery process of the attendance / leaving terminal 40 can be performed by the terminal machine 10A.

Therefore, according to this embodiment, the attendance / leaving inquiry control means (11,
12) and sign-on execution permission control means (11, 12)
, Sign-on prohibition control means (11, 12), special procedure execution declaration means (5), and prohibition release control means (11, 1)
2) is provided, and in principle, the attendance / leaving terminal 40 and the host device 3
Only the employees who are recognized as being in attendance by the attendance management function in collaboration with 0 can sign on at the terminal machine 10 and exceptionally even the employees who have not completed attendance procedures have been declared special procedures by the senior manager. Since it is configured to be able to sign on under the condition of
It is possible to eliminate inconveniences such as sales of employees who are not attending work being recorded in the sales data collected by the side,
It is possible to prevent money theft caused by unauthorized sign-on by other employees or outsiders.

Further, since the special procedure execution declaring means is formed by the key switch 5 which can be operated using only the key possessed by the upper responsible person, the exceptional measures can be surely managed.

Since the setting period of the special procedure execution declaration can be changed by the setting key 20S,
It has wide applicability because it can be operated according to the busy season in the store.

Also, special attendance procedure control means (11, 1
Since 2) is provided and special attendance processing can be performed on the higher-level device 30, the employee who did not perform the prescribed attendance procedure can immediately go to the merchandise sales registration business immediately without returning to the attendance / leaving terminal 40. You can eliminate inconveniences such as sales of employees who are not working.

[0046]

According to the present invention, attendance / leaving inquiry control means, sign-on execution permission control means, and
Sign-on prohibition control means, special procedure execution declaration means,
In principle, only an employee who is admitted to be attending work by the attendance / leaving management function of the attendance / leaving terminal and higher-level equipment can sign-on at the terminal, and exceptionally no attendance procedure Even if the employee who is not working is signed up on the condition that the senior manager declares a special procedure, the sales data of the employee who has not attended work will be recorded in the sales data collected by the upper device. In addition to eliminating inconveniences such as being present, it is possible to prevent money theft caused by unauthorized sign-on of other employees and outsiders.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is an overall configuration diagram showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is likewise a flow chart for explaining the operation on the terminal machine side.

FIG. 3 is likewise a flowchart for explaining the operation on the higher-level device side.

FIG. 4 is a diagram for explaining a conventional example.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart for explaining a conventional operation on the terminal machine side.

FIG. 6 is a flowchart for explaining a conventional operation on the attendance / leaving terminal side.

FIG. 7 is a flow chart for explaining a conventional operation on the host device side.

[Explanation of Codes] 1-3 Data Communication Line 5 Key Switch (Special Procedure Execution Declaration Means) 10A to 10N Terminal Machine (Merchandise Sales Registration Data Processing Device) 11 CPU (Attendance / Inquiry Inquiry Control Means, Sign-On Execution Permission Control Means, Sign ON prohibition control means, prohibition release control means) 12 ROM (attendance / receipt inquiry control means, sign-on execution permission control means, sign-on prohibition control means, prohibition release control means) 13 RAM 20 keyboard 20C person in charge key 20S setting key 21 scanner 22CSH Cashier display 23 Drawer 25 Card reader 30 Upper device 31 CPU 32 ROM 33 RAM 33T Attendance management table 40 Attendance and attendance terminal 41 CPU 42 ROM 43 RAM 45 Card reader

Claims (1)

[Claims] 1. A plurality of terminal devices having a sign-on function and capable of executing product sales registration work and a host device for overall management are connected for data communication, and the host device is connected to a work terminal from In a product sales registration data processing device having a time and attendance management function for performing attendance and attendance management of employees based on the entered employee information, an employee corresponding to the employee information read when the sign-on function is executed in each of the terminal machines Attendance inquiry control means for inquiring to the higher-level device whether or not the employee is at work, and a signature for permitting execution of the sign-on function on condition that there is a response from the higher-level device that the employee is at work. Execution of the sign-on function is prohibited on the condition that there is a response from the on-execution permission control means and the host device that the employee is not at work. Prohibition by the sign-on prohibition control means provided that the sign-on prohibition control means, the special procedure execution declaration means for declaring execution of the special procedure, and the declaration that the special procedure is executed are made. A product sale registration data processing device, comprising: a prohibition release control means for releasing a state.