KR20110007284A

KR20110007284A - Store management system with pda and store management method

Info

Publication number: KR20110007284A
Application number: KR1020090064726A
Authority: KR
Inventors: 김원일
Original assignee: 김원일
Priority date: 2009-07-16
Filing date: 2009-07-16
Publication date: 2011-01-24

Abstract

The present invention uses a portable personal information terminal (PDA) to manage the time and attendance of the sales staff, store monitoring management, product management (items) of small employees (1 to 3) dispatched to a large discount store, department store, or distribution base Store and system, store management system and store management method that can perform the community function remotely, the store according to the present invention The management system includes a system for remotely managing a small store in a form in which small employees are dispatched to distribution centers such as department stores and discount stores, comprising: a server for performing database management and processing of collected data; A personal portable information terminal connected to the server via a network, for inputting mission information for time and attendance management, transmitting images of current store display status, and inputting information for inventory, receipt management, and research management; And a server connected to the server through a network, instructing the personal portable terminal through the server for mission information for time and attendance management, and processing the time and attendance information of the employee processed by the server, the display status of the store and the stock and goods receipt information. And an administrator client terminal for providing the research information to the administrator.

Store, management, time and attendance, inventory, receipt, PDA, information terminal

Description

Store management system and store management method using a portable information terminal {Store Management System with PDA and Store Management Method}

The present invention relates to a store management system and a store management method using a personal digital assistant (PDA), and more particularly, to a large discount store, a department store, or a distribution point using a personal digital assistant (PDA). Store management system that can remotely perform attendance management, store monitoring management, inventory and receipt management of goods, performance management, research management, community function, etc. It is about how to manage the store.

In general, the sales information management system operating in each store refers to a system that intensively manages sales information by immediately recording information on products sold at the point of sale. This sales information management system enables the automation of stores in the distribution service industry, such as department stores, large discount stores, and large book stores. The sales information management system reads the barcode attached to the product or OCR tag (Optical Character Recognition Tag) through the scanner (auto reader) to automatically calculate the price and collect all the information about the product. Can be. Based on the sales data collected, sales trends of new and promotional products, trends of popular and non-popular products, sales trends of similar products and competitions, analysis by purchasers, hourly analysis, correlation between sales price and sales volume, etc. The production status, sales plan, and advertising plan can be prepared by identifying the display status and the effect of mass media advertising. You can also get product information quickly and in detail at low cost. In addition, fingerprint recognition, ID card, etc. may be used for time and attendance management for employees.

By the way, the conventional store management and time and attendance management for employees can be applied to the entire large sales floor, but the sales staff of small employees (1 to 3) who are dispatched to large discount stores, department stores, or distribution centers And there is a limit that can not be applied to the store.

As a result, the sales status of a sales employee who is dispatched to a large discount store, a department store, or a distribution point, and inventory and receipt management of a store are directly communicated by a remote manager and a store employee, or a manager visits and checks documents. Was done in a way.

Accordingly, there is an urgent need for a new store management system that enables the management of employees dispatched to large discount stores, department stores, etc., as well as the identification and sales management of products sold by remote managers.

Therefore, the present invention has been proposed to solve the above problems of the prior art, a small number of personnel (1 to 3) dispatched to a large discount store, department store, or distribution point using a portable personal information terminal (PDA) (1 to 3) Its purpose is to provide a store management system and store management method to remotely perform time and attendance management, store monitoring management, goods receipt and inventory management, performance management, research management, and community functions. have.

Other objects and advantages of the present invention can be understood by the following description, and will be more clearly understood by the embodiments of the present invention. Also, it will be readily appreciated that the objects and advantages of the present invention may be realized by the means and combinations thereof indicated in the claims.

The store management system according to the present invention for achieving the above object is a system for remotely managing a small store in a form in which small employees are dispatched to distribution centers such as department stores and discount stores, and the database management and processing of the collected data. A server performing the; A personal portable information terminal connected to the server via a network, for inputting mission information for time and attendance management, transmitting an image of a current store display, and inputting information for inventory and receipt management; And a server connected to the server via a network, instructing the personal portable terminal through the server for mission information for time and attendance management, and processing the attendance information of the employee processed by the server, the display status of the store, the inventory and the goods receipt information. It includes an administrator client terminal for providing to the administrator.

Preferably, the mission information for time and attendance management includes at least one or more of an image, a shape, and a barcode, and the server checks whether information corresponding to the mission information for time and attendance management is input from the personal portable information terminal. The time and attendance information is processed.

In addition, the store management method according to the present invention for achieving the above object, in order to remotely manage a small store in the form of small employees dispatched to distribution centers such as department stores and discount stores, personal portable terminal, server and manager client terminal A store management method in a store management system comprising: (a) automatically generating time and attendance management mission information for identifying an attendance status of an employee and transmitting the time and attendance management information to the personal digital assistant; (b) receiving and storing mission response information corresponding to the time and attendance mission information from the personal digital assistant; And (c) generating time and attendance information of each store employee using the stored mission response information and transmitting the time and attendance information to the manager client terminal.

Preferably, the mission information for time and attendance management includes at least one of an image, a shape, and a barcode.

Preferably, the method of the present invention comprises the steps of generating a shooting time schedule to confirm the display status of the store and transmitting to the personal digital assistant; And

And receiving the captured image from the personal portable information terminal according to the photographing time schedule, processing the image, and transmitting the processed image to the manager client terminal in a report form.

Preferably, the method further includes receiving information for inventory identification or receipt management, performance management, and research management from the personal portable information terminal, processing and transmitting the information to the manager client terminal in the form of a report. .

As described above, the present invention sells store information including time and attendance data of a sales employee who is dispatched to a large discount store, department store, and other distribution bases, merchandise display status, goods received and inventory, sales, customers, and competitors. The employee's information terminal (PDA) is sent to the remote management server, and the management server can automatically print out the necessary reports based on the collected data, so that the manager can check the status of the sales store remotely without visiting the store. You can check in real time.

According to the present invention, even in stores where small-sized employees are dispatched, the order and inventory status of the products are remotely identified and databased in real time, so that product shortages and losses (along with the prediction of the regular demand / supply volume of the products sold) Loss prevention effect is expected and unnecessary operating expenses can be reduced based on slimmer store management operation organization.

In addition, according to the present invention, it is possible to secure the reliability of work management for dispatched employees, such as a retailer operating a small sales employee, a manpower outsourcing company, an event planner, etc. By implementing remote management through sharing, it is expected to secure competitiveness and rethink efficiency of store management.

The foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the present invention will become more apparent from the following detailed description of the present invention when taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in which: There will be. In the following description, well-known functions or constructions are not described in detail since they would obscure the invention in unnecessary detail. Hereinafter, a preferred embodiment of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

1 is a view schematically showing a store management system according to the present invention.

The store management system according to the present invention includes a portable personal information terminal (PDA), a server installed at a remote site, and a server configured to database and process information collected from the personal information terminal (PDA), and an administrator client.

The personal digital assistant (PDA) includes a communication module capable of wirelessly communicating with a server. Here, the wireless communication module may include a wireless local area communication (WLAN) communication module, a portable Internet wireless communication module (Wibro, WiMAX), a cellular communication module, and the like. When the wireless communication module is a wireless local area communication (WLAN) communication module or a portable Internet wireless communication module (Wibro, WiMAX), an access point (AP) may be installed in a store.

Through personal information terminal (PDA), employees can check the attendance data such as image, shape and barcode, store status information of image taken, stocking quantity by product item, stock quantity by product item, daily sales volume, Enter information such as customer / competitor trends and unusual details. And through the personal information terminal, workers can view various announcements, download incentive status, product / education materials, read pay stubs, or view work orders.

The server performs the function of storing the information collected through the personal information terminal (PDA) in the database and processing and providing it in the form desired by the administrator. It is similar to the server to the detailed description thereof will be omitted.

The manager client terminal is connected to the server, processing information of the time and attendance data of the employees who work in each store, display status information by store, stock status by item by store, stock status by item by store, and item by store You can print the sales status and trend report by store. In addition, the manager may input various announcements, incentive status, product data or training data, pay stubs, and work order information through the client terminal.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a processing method for time and attendance management of the dispatched employee in the shop management system according to the present invention.

First, a worker may prepare a monthly work plan such as a work type, a holiday, a vacation, and a public leave and input the same in advance (101). After the commute mission is determined by the manager or the server, commute mission information is transmitted to the worker (102). Then, the worker transmits the result corresponding to the commute mission information transmitted through the personal information terminal to the server (103). The mission result may be any one of a real-time captured image, a shape, and a barcode.

The server stores the mission result transmitted from each personal information terminal (PDA) in a database in correspondence with each employee personal ID (104). Then, to transmit the attendance status to the administrator, the server reads the mission performance result of each worker stored in the database and automatically converts the data (105, 106). This is a task for quantifying the time and attendance situation according to the mission performance result (107), if the operation is not completed (107), and notifies the error (111), and repeats from the process 102 to grant the commute mission again.

When the quantification of the mission result is normally performed (107), the server automatically generates and transmits a commute approval message to the personal information terminal (PDA) (108). In addition, the server automatically generates a shop attendance report (109) to report the attendance status to the manager, and outputs the generated shop attendance report to the manager client (110).

3 is a flowchart illustrating a store monitoring method according to the present invention.

First, a stand-up shooting time schedule is prepared by the manager and notified to the employee's personal information terminal (PDA), and the personal information terminal (PDA) may generate a notification sound when the corresponding time is reached according to the stored time-taking time schedule ( 201).

Accordingly, the worker transmits an image photographing the display status of the store to the server (202). The server stores the captured image transmitted from the personal information terminal (PDA) of each store in a database (203). The server reads the captured image stored in the database (204), and verifies whether it can be processed normally (205). If the image is not normal, the server notifies an error (208) to photograph the display of the shelf again. On the other hand, if normal processing is possible, the server automatically collects the store image for each store (206), and outputs it in the form of a report for the administrator to check (207).

4 is a flowchart illustrating a goods receipt management method according to the present invention. The goods receipt management method of the present invention is not significantly different from the usual goods receipt management method, and will be described below schematically.

First, the status of each product item is automatically generated (301), and the worker inputs the amount of goods received for each product item and transmits it to the server (302). The server stores the received goods quantity information transmitted from the personal information terminal (PDA) of each store in the database (303), and then read the stored information to verify the accuracy of the data (304, 305). If there is an abnormality in the verification result is notified to the personal information terminal to reconfirm and correct (308), and if there is no abnormality in the verification result, the status of receipt by item for each store is automatically collected and output in the form of a report (306, 307).

5 is a flowchart illustrating an inventory management method according to the present invention. The inventory management method of the present invention is also not significantly different from the normal inventory management method, and will be described below in outline.

First, in order to automatically generate a current status of each product item (401), and to input the inventory status of each product item, the barcode is scanned and transmitted to the server (402). Here, information about the unscanned goods is input by hand. .

The server stores the inventory information transmitted from the personal information terminal of each store in a database (403), and then reads the stored information and analyzes the inventory information (404, 405). Inventory analysis refers to checking the difference between the quantity of inventory information stored in the previous database and the currently collected inventory information. As a result of inventory analysis, if an abnormality occurs due to excessive loss, the manager is notified of the abnormal condition so that the site inspection and cause identification may be performed (408). On the other hand, as a result of inventory analysis, in normal cases, the inventory analysis results are automatically collected and processed into a report form of the inventory status for each item by store (406, 407).

On the other hand, through the personal information terminal, the manager can receive a work report from each worker, and can perform the remote training of each worker. Managers can also manage the performance of each worker. Such work reporting, distance education, performance management, research management can be performed through conventional techniques, and a detailed description thereof will be omitted.

On the other hand, the method of the present invention as described above can be written in a computer program. And the code and code segments constituting the program can be easily inferred by a computer programmer in the art. In addition, the written program is stored in a computer-readable recording medium (information storage medium), and read and executed by a computer to implement the method of the present invention. The recording medium may include any type of computer readable recording medium.

The present invention described above is capable of various substitutions, modifications, and changes without departing from the technical spirit of the present invention for those skilled in the art to which the present invention pertains. It is not limited by the drawings.

1 is a view showing a store management system according to the present invention,

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method for time and attendance management according to the present invention;

3 is a flowchart for monitoring a store display status according to the present invention;

4 is a flow chart for receipt management according to the present invention,

5 is a flowchart for inventory management according to the present invention.

Claims

In the system for remotely managing small stores in which small employees are dispatched to distribution centers such as department stores and discount stores,

A server that performs database management and processing of the collected data;

A personal portable information terminal connected to the server via a network, for inputting mission information for time and attendance management, transmitting an image of a current store display, and inputting information for inventory and receipt management; And

Connected with the server via a network, and instructs the personal portable information terminal through the server for mission information for time and attendance management, and displays the time and attendance information of the employee processed by the server, the display status of the store and the stock and goods receipt information. Store management system comprising a manager client terminal for providing to the manager.

The method of claim 1,

The mission information for time and attendance management includes at least one of an image, a shape, and a barcode, and the server determines whether information corresponding to the mission information for time and attendance is input from the personal portable information terminal. A shop management system, characterized by processing time and attendance information.

In the store management method in the store management system which consists of a personal portable terminal, a server, and an administrator client terminal to remotely manage a small store in which a small employee is dispatched to a distribution center such as a department store and a discount store,

(a) automatically generating time and attendance management mission information for identifying an employee's time and attendance status and transmitting it to the personal digital assistant;

(b) receiving and storing mission response information corresponding to the time and attendance mission information from the personal digital assistant; And

(c) generating time and attendance information of each store employee using the stored mission response information and delivering the time and attendance information to the manager client terminal;

Store management method comprising a.

The method of claim 3, wherein

The mission information for the time and attendance management store management method comprising at least one of an image, a shape, a bar code.

The method of claim 4, wherein

Generating a photographing time schedule to check the display status of the store and transmitting the photographing time schedule to the personal digital assistant; And

And receiving the image photographed according to the photographing time schedule from the personal portable information terminal, processing the image, and transmitting the processed image to the manager client terminal in a report form.

The method of claim 4, wherein

The store management method further comprises the step of receiving the inventory information or receipt information from the personal portable information terminal, processing and transmitting to the manager client terminal in the form of a report.