JPH08329350A - Article sales registration data processor - Google Patents

Abstract

PURPOSE: To easily enable detailed discount sales changing in discount extent stepwise according to a lapse of days from a manufacture data and time without using an article data file, etc. CONSTITUTION: Each article is given a two-dimensional data code where a pattern is generated on the basis of at least an article code, an article name, a normal sales price, manufacture data and time data, appreciation period data, and discount data based upon the lapse of days from the manufacture date, and time and when a two-dimensional read means reads out the two-dimensional data code given to the sold article at the time of article registration (Y at S1), a comparison arithmetic means compares the manufacture date and time data in the read data with current date and time data to calculate lapse day and time data (S5); and a discount processing means extracts the discount data corresponding to the lapse day and time data from the data of the two-dimensional data code and performs discount registration processes (S6, S9, and S10, or S7, S1, and S10) regarding the sold article.

Description

Detailed Description of the Invention

[0001]

The present invention relates to an ECR (electronic cash register) and a POS terminal (point-of-sale information management device).
For example, the present invention relates to a product sales registration data processing device.

[0002]

2. Description of the Related Art Generally, in this type of product sales registration data processing apparatus, product data such as a product name and a selling price are set in advance in correspondence with a unique product code attached to each product in a memory. When the product data file (PLU file) is provided and the product code of the sold product is input by the product data input means, the product data file is searched and the product data such as the product name and the selling price corresponding to the input product code is retrieved. Readout is performed, and based on these product data, product sales data registration processing, display of product names, prices, etc., and output processing for printing on receipts, journals, etc. are executed.

In this case, a bar code indicating a product code is printed or attached to each product, and a bar code scanner capable of reading such a bar code is provided as a product data input means. It is also widely practiced to simplify the work of inputting the product code by reading the barcode.

By the way, in recent years, fresh foods such as fresh fish, meat, fruits and vegetables, dairy products and the like have been printed with the date of manufacture and the expiration date of the product to provide services to consumers. Then, depending on the store, there is often a case where a predetermined date and time has passed since the manufacturing date and a product which is close to the expiration date are sold at a discount to the normal price. Specifically, the sales floor is changed and the price tag is changed at the bargain corner to sell, but especially in the case of fresh food etc., the discount amount written in red on the price tag in the evening just before the closing of the store. There are many cases to attach. As for fresh foods whose expiration date has expired, the clerk visually judges the expiration and discards them.

However, the checking of the manufacturing date, the expiration date, etc. is left to the visual judgment of the store clerk or the consumer. In reality, there are products whose manufacturing value is old and whose product value has decreased due to omission of the check. It may cause inconveniences such as selling at a normal price or losing credit because an expired product is mistakenly sold.

[0006] Therefore, for example, by making it possible to automatically confirm the manufacturing date of a product to be sold, it is possible to automatically perform a discount or the like process on an old product. Data processing device is Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 63-188.
No. 298 is disclosed. More specifically, the date code relating to the product is input together with the product code of the sale product by the data input means, and the input date data and the current date data obtained from the built-in clock circuit are compared by the date comparison means. As a result of the comparison, if the current date has passed a predetermined number of days from the date of the product, the discount processing means automatically discounts the sales price of the sales product from the normal price and registers it in the memory. There is. In addition, the sale prohibition means prohibits the sale of products whose expiration date has expired. Here, the date data regarding the product is, for example, manufacturing date data, and is incorporated in the barcode attached to the product together with the product code and the like.

[0007]

However, considering a more realistic sales form, for example, as the date and time from the manufacturing date and time elapse, the discount rate is gradually increased and the price differences are sequentially provided. There are many cases of discount sales. In this respect, according to the above-mentioned known technology, it is necessary to store a pair of elapsed date and time and discount data for each product code in advance in the product data file, which requires a product data file with a large memory capacity. And As a result, it takes time to search the product data file during the registration process, which may reduce the efficiency of the product registration work.

In the actual sale, for example, how much discount price and how many items are sold,
Such data is important data in making a sales plan for the product in terms of management strategy, but it is not possible to efficiently collect and summarize such data that can be management data.

[0009]

According to the first aspect of the present invention,
In the product sales registration data processing device for registering the product sales data on the basis of the input data and displaying the registered product information, at least the product code, the product name, A two-dimensional data reading means for reading a two-dimensional data code given to each product in which a pattern is created based on the regular sale price, the production date / time data, the expiration date data, and the discount data according to the date / time elapsed from the production date / time. Is provided as the product data input means, and when the data relating to the sold product is input by the two-dimensional data reading means, the read manufacturing date and time data is compared with the current date and time data output by the built-in clock circuit. A comparison calculation means for calculating the elapsed date and time is provided, and the calculation is performed by this comparison calculation means. Provided the discount processing means for performing discounted registration processing concerning the selling goods with discount data on the two-dimensional data code corresponding to the time other day.

According to a second aspect of the invention, in addition to the first aspect of the invention, a sales management file is created by classifying the data on the two-dimensional data code used in the discount registration processing executed by the discount processing means. A file creating means is provided.

In these inventions, "manufacturing date / time data" is not limited to date data such as manufacturing date, but may include hour / minute data depending on the product. The "expiration date data" is not limited to date data such as the expiration date, but may include hour / minute data depending on the product. "Discount data according to elapsed date and time" defines the amount of discount according to the number of days and elapsed time from the manufacturing date and time, and is expressed by discount rate data, discount amount data, etc.
It is subdivided in stages as necessary.

[0012]

In the invention described in claim 1, each product has:
At least the product code, product name, regular selling price,
A two-dimensional data code in which a pattern is created based on the manufacturing date / time data, the expiration date data, and the discount data according to the date / time elapsed from the manufacturing date / time is added. Then, when the two-dimensional data code attached to the sold product at the time of product registration is read by the two-dimensional data reading means in the product data input means, the comparison operation means outputs the manufacturing date and time data in the read data and the clock circuit. The current date / time data is compared with the current date / time data to calculate elapsed date / time data such as the number of elapsed days and the elapsed time. Therefore, the discount processing means extracts the discount data corresponding to the elapsed date and time calculated from the read data of the two-dimensional data code and automatically performs the discount registration processing regarding the sale product. Here, the discount data corresponding to the elapsed date and time is also added to each product in a two-dimensional data code having a large storage capacity, and the discount data and the like are stored in stages on the product data file side of the device body. Since it is not necessary to store the product data file, it is possible to easily handle fine-grained discount sales in which the discount rate can be gradually changed without enlarging the memory capacity of the product data file. Further, since the two-dimensional data code itself read by the two-dimensional data reading means holds discount data and the like as well as the product code and the like, the search time can be shortened and the efficiency of the product registration work is improved.

According to the second aspect of the invention, from the two-dimensional data code having the normal product data such as the product code and the data that can be used for the discount registration processing such as the manufacturing date data and the discount data according to the elapsed date and time, Since the file creating means creates a sales management file by classifying the read data, it is possible to easily obtain effective management data for making a sales plan or the like in terms of business strategy.

[0014]

DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS An embodiment of the present invention will be described with reference to the drawings. The product sales registration data processing device of the present embodiment is a POS for a POS system used in a supermarket or the like.
It is applied to a terminal, and its hardware configuration will be described with reference to FIG. This POS terminal is equipped with a CPU 1 as a control unit main body. A ROM 3 in which fixed data such as programs are stored in advance, a RAM 4 for temporarily storing variable data, and a large-capacity hard disk 5 are connected to the CPU 1 via a bus line 2.

Further, the CPU 1 is provided with a clock circuit 6 for measuring the current time of the system via a bus line 2 and outputting the time as appropriate, a host computer as a host device and an L.
Host interface 7 which is in charge of sending and receiving data via a communication line such as AN (Local Area Network), keyboard controller 9 which controls keyboard 8, display controller 11 which controls display 10, and receipt / journal Printer controller 13 for controlling the printer 12 of the above, a two-dimensional data code reader interface (including a decoder) 15 for inputting a two-dimensional data code read by the two-dimensional data code reader 14, a mode switch 16 and a drawer (not shown) Is connected to an I / O port 18 and the like connected to a drawer opening device 17 for opening.

The keyboard 8 is a numerical key, a subtotal key, a closing key, a clear key, which is necessary for product sales registration work.
It is a keyboard for exclusive use of a POS terminal in which a cancel key, a discount key, etc. are arranged, and together with the two-dimensional data code reader 14 serves as the basis of product data input means.

The display device 10 displays the name of the product registered for sale, the selling price, the payment amount of one transaction, and the like.
A display for a store clerk (so-called cashier) operating the POS terminal and a display for the customer are provided.

The printer 12 uses the receipt paper and journal paper for the names and sales prices of products registered for sale.
Prints the total amount of transactions, etc. The printed receipt paper is ejected from the receipt issuing port (not shown).
Each transaction is cut and issued as a receipt to the customer, and the journal paper is wound inside the POS terminal and stored as transaction history.

The mode switch 16 is a switch for selecting various work modes of the apparatus such as "registration", "inspection", "payment", "setting".

The two-dimensional data code reader 14 is, for example, as shown in FIG. 3, a so-called rectangular two-dimensional bar code in which various data are arranged in a matrix having a configuration in which at least two pieces on the periphery are straight lines. The two-dimensional data code 21 is optically read and constitutes the two-dimensional data code reading means in the product data input means.

Here, the two-dimensional data code 21 is created independently in the store, or created by the maker and given to each product individually. In such a two-dimensional data code 21, for example, FIG.
Alternatively, various product data as shown in (b) is included.

FIG. 4A shows an example of the data contained in the two-dimensional data code 21, which is general product data 22a such as a unique product code, product name and normal unit price assigned to each product. , Manufacturing date data 22b, which is the manufacturing date
The expiration date data 22c and the discount data 22d that is a discount rate (elapsed discount rate 1, 2) according to the number of days elapsed (the number of difference days 1, 2) from the manufacturing date and time are included.

Similarly, FIG. 4B is another example of the data contained in the two-dimensional data code 21, which is a general product code such as a unique product code assigned to each product, a product name, and a normal unit price. Product data 23a, manufacturing date and time and manufacturing date and time data 23b, expiration date and expiration time, expiration date data 23c, and discount amount (elapsed value) according to the elapsed date and time (difference 1, 2) from the production date and time. The discount data 23d which is the discount amount 1, 2) is included.

The functions of the comparison calculation means, the discount registration means, and the file creation means described below are the same as those of the RO.
It is configured to be executed by the CPU 1 based on the program in M3.

Next, as an example of the case where the two-dimensional data code 21 is created based on the product data having the content illustrated in FIG. 4A, as a part of the registration / settlement processing at the checkout office. The processing and control executed will be described with reference to the flowchart shown in FIG. First, if data is input when the business mode is selected to "register" with the mode switch 16, it is determined whether the input is a two-dimensional data code input (step S1). When data is input from the two-dimensional data code reader 14, it is determined to be two-dimensional data code input, and the two-dimensional data code 21 in the RAM 4 is analyzed by the decoder in the two-dimensional data code reader interface 15 to analyze the two-dimensional data code. It is expanded in the buffer (work area) (S
2).

When the two-dimensional data code 21 is input, the expiration date data included in the two-dimensional data code is extracted, and the date of the system (current date and time data) clocked by the clock circuit 6 is extracted. Determines whether or not the expiration date has passed (S3). If the expiration date has passed, it is not suitable for sale, so an expiration date error display is displayed to urge the cashier to prohibit the sale of the product (S4). Therefore, a product whose expiration date has expired will not be mistakenly sold, and a loss of credibility, a return trouble, etc. can be prevented. On the other hand, if the date of this system is within the expiration date, (the date of this system)-
(Manufacturing date) is calculated, and the difference days (elapsed date and time) N
Is calculated (S5). The process of step S5 is executed by the comparison calculation means.

Here, the calculated difference days N is the difference days 2,
If it is compared with 1 (S6, S7) and is smaller than any one of the difference days 1, 2, the discount will not be applied and the normal unit price taken from the two-dimensional data code will be used. Is set in the sales unit price area and the normal unit price is displayed (S8). On the other hand, the difference days N is the difference days 2
In the above cases, the selling unit price [normal unit price x
(100−elapsed discount rate 2) × 100%] is calculated, and this is set and displayed in the selling unit price area (S
9). In the case of the “processed milk” shown in FIG. 4A, if the number of days difference N is 7 days or more, the sales unit price is 15% off.
Then, the sales registration processing using this sales unit price is executed (S10). This process is a discount registration process.

When the number of days difference N is less than the number of days difference 2 but the number of days difference is 1 or more, the selling unit price [normal unit price × (normal unit price × ( 100-elapsed discount rate 1) × 100%] is calculated, and this is set and displayed in the selling unit price area (S11). In the case of the “processed milk” shown in FIG. 4 (a), if the number of days difference N is 5 days or more and less than 7 days, the selling unit price is 5% off. Then, the sales registration processing using this sales unit price is executed (S10). This process is also a discount registration process.

In any case, after the transaction processing after the sales processing, the above processing is repeated until the closing processing is declared by pressing the current / total key or the like, and the closing processing is declared. And (Y in S12), the subtotal is 0
If not, the total amount of sales is calculated and displayed and printed on receipt paper or journal paper (S14). If there is a deposit input (S1
(Y of 5), the change amount is calculated from the difference from the total sales amount, displayed, and printed on receipt paper or journal paper (S16). After that, when the change is returned, (S
17), issue a receipt (S18), and end the process.

Even if the two-dimensional data code 21 is created based on the product data having the content illustrated in FIG. 4B, it is apparent that the processing can be performed according to FIG.

Therefore, according to the present embodiment, it is necessary to carry out a fine-grained discounting process for fresh food or the like so that the discount level is gradually increased in accordance with the elapsed time from the time of production. Two-dimensional data code 21 for attaching various data (discount data according to the elapsed date and time) to each product
It is only necessary to keep it inside and there is no need to set it in the product data file in the system as in the past.
This also means that the search process in the product data file during the product registration process is unnecessary. Since the data read from the two-dimensional data code 21, analyzed, and expanded in the buffer or the like may be used, it is possible to improve the processing efficiency of the product registration work. From a different point of view, the empty area in the product data file can be effectively used for other purposes.

On the other hand, when the sales registration processing is executed regardless of the presence or absence of the discount registration processing (S10), data update of the sales transaction file shown in step S23 in FIG. 5 is executed. This sales transaction file 2
As shown in FIG. 6, reference numeral 4 is for sequentially storing sales details. Before updating the data of the sales transaction file, it is determined whether or not the sales are due to the discount registration process (S21). In the case of the sales due to the discount registration process, the data of the discount sales file (sales management file) is created. (S22). The processing of this step S22 is
It is executed by the file creating means. The discount sales file 25 is a classification of data that can be actually used in the discount registration process and become management data from the data read from the two-dimensional data code 21, analyzed, and expanded in a buffer or the like. For example, in the example of the discount sales file 25 shown in FIG. 7, the product code, product name, sales category,
It consists of data such as discount rate, discount amount, sales amount, normal unit price, sales date, manufacturing date, and expiration date.

Therefore, the manager or the like of the store concerned can later analyze the discount sales file 25 to know the number of discount sales, the distribution of the discount sales time, etc., and the next sales plan. It can be effectively used as a management document such as (plan of manufacturing date / number, etc.). For this purpose also, by using the data assigned to the two-dimensional data code 21 having a large amount of information, the discount sales file 2
Since 5 is automatically created by the file creating means, there is no trouble of collecting data.

[0034]

According to the invention described in claim 1, each product has a product code, a product name, a regular sale price, manufacturing date / time data, expiration date data, and a date / time elapsed from the manufacturing date / time. A two-dimensional data code having a pattern created based on the discount data is provided, and when the two-dimensional data code attached to the sale product is read by the two-dimensional data reading means at the time of product registration, the comparison calculation means reads it. The manufacturing date / time data in the data is compared with the current date / time data output from the clock circuit to calculate elapsed date / time data, and the discount data corresponding to the calculated elapsed date / time data is read by the discount processing means. Since the discount registration processing for the sale item is automatically performed by extracting from the read data of the two-dimensional data code, the secondary storage with a large storage capacity is used. Since it is possible to add discount data according to the elapsed date and time to each product in the data code, there is no need to store stepwise discount data etc. on the product data file side of the device body as in the past. Therefore, it is possible to easily deal with fine-grained discount sales in which the discount level can be changed stepwise without increasing the memory capacity of the product data file, and at the same time, 2
Since the two-dimensional data code itself read by the dimensional data reading means holds discount data and the like together with the product code and the like, the search time can be shortened and the efficiency of the product registration work can be improved.

According to the second aspect of the invention, in addition to the effect of the first aspect of the invention, a discount registration process for manufacturing date data, discount data according to elapsed date and time, as well as normal product data such as a product code Since the sales management file is automatically created by the file creating means by classifying the data read from the two-dimensional data code that holds the data that can be used for the data collection, there is no trouble in collecting the data. In terms of business strategy, it is possible to easily create effective business materials for making sales plans and the like.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a flowchart of a processing / control example showing an embodiment of the present invention.

FIG. 2 is a block diagram showing a hardware configuration of a POS terminal.

FIG. 3 is a plan view showing an example of a two-dimensional data code.

FIG. 4 is an explanatory diagram showing two examples of data contents in a two-dimensional data code.

FIG. 5 is a flowchart showing a file creation process.

FIG. 6 is an explanatory diagram showing a part of a transaction file.

FIG. 7 is an explanatory diagram showing a discount sales file.

[Explanation of symbols]

 6 Clock circuit 14 Two-dimensional data code reading means 21 Two-dimensional data code 22a, 23a Normal data 22b, 23b Manufacturing date data 22c, 23c Shelf life data 22d, 23d Discount data 25 Sales management file

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A merchandise sales registration data processing device for registering merchandise sales data and displaying registered merchandise information based on the input data when data on a merchandise to be sold is inputted by the merchandise data inputting means. The pattern is created based on the code, the product name, the regular sale price, the manufacturing date / time data, the expiration date data, and the discount data according to the elapsed date / time from the manufacturing date / time, and the two-dimensional data code given to each product is read. A two-dimensional data reading means is provided as the product data input means,
A comparison operation for calculating the date and time elapsed from the manufacturing date and time by comparing the manufacturing date and time data read when the data relating to the sale item is input by the two-dimensional data reading means with the current date and time data output by the built-in clock circuit. And a discount processing means for performing discount registration processing for the sale product using the discount data on the two-dimensional data code according to the elapsed date and time calculated by the comparison calculation means. Sales registration data processing device. 2. The file creating means for creating a sales management file by classifying data on a two-dimensional data code used in the discount registration processing executed by the discount processing means. Product sales registration data processing device.