JP2005174035A - Discount sales management device, discount sales management method, and program thereof - Google Patents

Abstract

An object of the present invention is to determine a discount start time and a discount sales price so that a target product can be sold out by the target date and time, and a maximum sales profit can be obtained every predetermined time. Notify the discount notice information of the target products. At the same time, the store clerk provides a discount sales management apparatus that can change the display price of the product to be reduced in advance based on the discount information displayed on the POS terminal.
A discount sales management device, wherein a stock quantity of a product is set to a predetermined quantity by a predetermined date and a discount sales of the product so as to obtain a maximum sales profit by the product every predetermined time. A discount sales forecasting means for determining a price every predetermined time, a name for identifying the product, a discount sales price of the product and a discount sales start date and time on a predetermined display to the consumer before the discount sales start. Discount sales notice means to display.
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Description

  The present invention dynamically determines a discount sales price and a discount sales start date and time in a POS system (point-of-sale information management system) or the like, and provides discount sales notice information to consumers before the discount sales start. It relates to display technology.

  In sales operations in conventional retail stores, a POS system is used that reads a barcode displayed on a product, quickly and accurately grasps a consumer's purchasing trend, and performs sales analysis and inventory management.

  In a store that handles fresh food that you want to sell out within the target time among various products like a supermarket, if you want to sell out products by reducing the price individually for many types of products, for example, If you take a method of deciding the sales price in the next time while looking at the sales in a certain time, if you do not set the discount amount accurately and make it a sales price, there will be a large amount of inventory even at the target time In this case, it was possible to make a loss by disposing of the product, or on the contrary, the product could be sold out, but there was a problem that the sales price was lowered too much and the profit was greatly reduced or a loss was made.

  Conventionally, as a solution in such a case, for example, in JP-A-7-249178, based on the transaction information on the day for each product, past transaction information, etc. The discount price information for each product is calculated at a predetermined cycle, and the result is displayed on the customer by the display means for the customer installed at the sales floor, and the discount price of the current discounted product is displayed to the customer. Also discloses a mechanism to settle at the discount price at the time of purchase.

As another example, Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 2001-184542 discloses a method of determining a product to be price-reduced by demand prediction.
JP 7-249178 A JP 2001-184542 A

  In the method disclosed in Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 7-249178 exemplified above, the discount start time of the product to be discounted and the sales price after the discount (hereinafter referred to as the discount sales price) are stored in advance. Therefore, it is possible that the consumer cannot determine whether or not the price of the product will be further reduced, and eventually loses the opportunity to purchase.

  In addition, in the method disclosed in Japanese Patent Application Laid-Open No. 2001-184542, a method for determining a product to be price-reduced by demand prediction is disclosed. The amount of money in consideration cannot be calculated.

  The present invention solves these problems, sells the target product by the target date and time, and tries to obtain the maximum sales profit every predetermined time. The discount sales price is determined and displayed on, for example, a discount information display device for consumers and a POS terminal installed in the store. The consumer knows from the discount information display device in the store the information on when the discounted product will be sold at what price, and at the same time, the store clerk looks at the discount sale notice information displayed on the POS terminal. Thus, it has a preparation time for changing in advance the display price of the product to be reduced in the store as necessary.

  In order to disclose the discount sales notice information to the consumer in advance, it is expected that there will be a purchase refusal between the time when the discount sale notice information is disclosed and the discount sales start time. Sales forecasts that anticipate

  The invention according to claim 1 of the present application is a value that sets the inventory amount of a product to a predetermined quantity by a predetermined date and time, and determines a discount sales price of the product that maximizes the sales profit of the product every predetermined time. Discount sales forecasting means, a name for identifying the product, a discount sales price of the product and a discount sales start date and time are displayed on a predetermined discount information display device to the consumer before the discount sales start date and time A discount sales management device having a sales notice means.

  According to the invention of claim 1 of the present application, the discount sales prediction means includes the inventory amount of the target product (including the amount in the store and the amount stored in the warehouse. Hereinafter, the same meaning is used) For example, the discount sales forecasting unit in FIG. 1 shows how much the product can be sold if it is sold at the following unit time from the past sales performance data of the target product and the current sales data per unit time. The sales are predicted based on the calculation result executed by the main body processing apparatus 1, and the sales profit prediction within each unit time is maximized from the predicted sales volume and sales amount for each unit time.

  Here, the unit time may be an hour unit or a day unit. Of course, the predetermined quantity when the stock quantity of the commodity is set to the predetermined quantity by the predetermined date and time may be 0 or less than a certain quantity.

  The target product of the target quantity is sold within the target date, and it is sold at a reduced price in order to secure more overall sales profit.Of course, if you want to give priority to eliminating inventory within the target date, Even if there is some inventory, there is a case where the highest priority is given to sales profit, so these conditions are taken into consideration each time.

  In short, by the target date and time, for the purpose of setting the stock quantity of the target product to the predetermined quantity and maximizing the sales profit, the quantity that can be sold for each unit time is predicted from the past results, and within each unit time The planned sales volume and sales price are set so that the sales profit is maximized. For example, first, before starting the sale of the discount, the unit time width is set to 1 hour, for example, the scheduled sales quantity and the sales price are set from the start of the sale of the discount to the target date and time for each hour, Calculate the total sales profit for the planned sales volume. When the price reduction is started with this calculation result as a target, the price reduction proceeds while the planned sales quantity and the sales price are corrected as necessary after the next time based on the collected hourly results.

  Preferably, at the stage of determining the discount sales price and the discount sales start date and time of the target product within the next unit time from the current time point, one or more installed in a position that is easy to see for consumers in the store Discount sales notice information indicating when the target product will be sold at what price is displayed on a plurality of discount information display devices 4.

  Here, the discount information display device 4 is of a type such as a plasma display, a liquid crystal display, or an electric bulletin board, and may be located at a location that is easy for the consumer at the entrance of the store to view. Absent. Further, the main body processing apparatus 1 may be of a type built in one of the POS terminals 3.

  As described above, the consumer knows the discount sale notice information of the target product in advance, so that the customer can stay in the store for a longer time, and the possibility of increasing the chance of purchasing the product increases.

  Further, in the invention according to claim 2 of the present application, the discount sales predicting means uses each of the following predetermined information based on the product information of the product, the sales performance information of the product, and the sales monitoring information of the product every predetermined time. 2. The discount sales management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein a discount sales price of the product to be applied within time is determined.

  According to the invention of claim 2 of the present application, for example, as shown in FIG. 1, in the system monitor 5, the condition setting as in the example of the parameter setting screen shown in FIG. It has become. The information necessary for the operation of this apparatus includes, for example, a discount monitoring interval setting table, a discount monitoring target product table, a time zone / day of the week, in addition to a PLU (price look-up) table of a conventional POS system It is held in the external hard disk 2 in the form of a sales record table, a sales record table before discounting by individual product, and a discount sales record table by individual product.

  In the discount monitoring interval setting table, the monitoring interval for each discount monitoring period is set, and numerical values (not shown) set on the parameter setting screen of FIG. 2 are stored (FIG. 8). A).

  In the discount monitoring target product table, discount monitoring information of products that are initially set as shown in the parameter setting screen example of FIG. 2 is stored (b in FIG. 8).

  The PLU table stores product information (scan code, product name, standard price, cost, inventory quantity, etc.), and is information that the POS system originally holds. Information called from the PLU table is displayed in each column of the setting items of the target product shown in FIG. 2 (c in FIG. 8).

  In the time zone / weekly single item sales performance table, the number of sales results (cumulative, average) by time of day is stored for each product. Here, by time and day of the week, information such as whether it falls on a holiday, weather (sunny, rainy, cloudy, snow), season (spring, summer, autumn, winter), temperature (average temperature), etc. It does not matter. Reference is made to the individual sales results by time zone on the date when the condition matches the target day (d in FIG. 8).

  In the sales record table before discounting by individual product, the number of sales results by unit time zone for each discount sales price is stored for each product (e in FIG. 8).

  In the single item discount sales record table, the number of sales records is stored for each product by time zone before discount for each discount amount (f in FIG. 8).

    According to the invention of claim 2 of the present application, in the unit time zone of the target product, the sales prediction according to the conditions is accurately performed, and the discount information of one or a plurality of units installed at a position that is easy for consumers in the store to see The display device 4 displays discount sales notice information of the target product.

    Here, for example, between the display of each discount sales notice information and the discount sales start date and time, the consumer knows how long to wait before the product is discounted, so if the number of sales decreases than usual is expected. For these conditions, the sales results table before discounts for individual products stores the number of sales by unit time zone for each discounted sales price for each product. Correct the number of predictions.

  Further, in the invention according to claim 3 of the present application, the discount sales notice means displays a name for identifying the product, a discount sales price of the product, and a discount sales start date and time to the consumer. 2. The discount sales management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein the discount sales management apparatus displays on a display of a predetermined POS terminal.

  According to the invention of claim 3 of the present application, the salesclerk needs to display the discount sale notice on the predetermined discount information display device and display on the display of the POS terminal before starting the discount sale. Depending on the price, the price label displayed on the target product is replaced, or the price of the product displayed on the display of the POS terminal is started when the discount sales forecasting means determines the new price. At the date and time, the main body processing apparatus 1 updates the display information of the POS terminal so that the new price is correctly displayed on the display of the POS terminal. Prior to the point in time, both the consumer and the store's treasurer are in a situation where they can know the discounted sales price information on the target product, so there are few annoying acts such as inquiries and reconfirmation. Now, even if, even if the clerk is not to store the discount sales information POS system is operated without any hindrance to business.

  The invention according to claim 4 of the present application includes a step of determining a discount target product and setting a discount environment, a step of calculating whether or not the product is sold out within a set period, and the calculation When it is determined that discount is necessary based on the result of the above, a step of starting discount monitoring based on a predetermined discount monitoring interval, and when the predetermined discount monitoring time comes, the sales quantity and sales within the discount monitoring interval A discount sales management method comprising: calculating a sales discount price within the discount monitoring interval from a change in speed; and displaying a discount sales notice screen on a discount information display device for a consumer. .

  According to the invention of claim 4 of the present application, as in the example of the parameter setting screen shown in FIG. 2 called by the system monitor 5 in FIG. 1, the initial process for determining the discount target product and setting the discount environment is performed. Do.

  Thereby, for example, the discount sales prediction unit 6 in the main body processing apparatus 1 of FIG. 1 calculates whether the target product is sold out to the main body processing apparatus 1 within the set period. To do. If the discount is not necessary according to the calculation result of whether or not the target product is sold out within the set period, for example, it is determined that the target product is not discounted.

  For the target product for which a result indicating that discount is necessary is obtained, discount monitoring is started based on a predetermined discount monitoring interval. When the time of the predetermined discount monitoring time comes, the discount sales forecasting unit determines the amount of the predetermined quantity within the predetermined discount monitoring time from the change in the sales quantity and the sales rate within the immediately preceding predetermined discount monitoring time. Calculate the discount amount that can be sold. The discount information display device 4 is instructed to display a discount sales notice screen as shown in FIG. 3, and at the same time, the display of the POS terminal 3 displays a discount recommendation screen as shown in FIG. Give instructions.

  The clerk of the store who saw the display on the POS terminal 3 responds that he / she saw the display by pressing the button labeled “OK” in FIG. 4 for confirmation. The main body processing apparatus 1 changes the price of the target product written in the discount monitoring target product table when the discount sales start time comes, and if necessary, the store clerk will change the price of the product according to the discount sales time. Change the display.

  When the end time of the discount monitoring period comes, the discount sales prediction unit 6 ends the discount monitoring.

  Further, the invention according to claim 5 of the present application provides the computer with the discounted selling price of the product for which the stock quantity of the product is set to a predetermined quantity by a predetermined date and time and the sales profit of the product is maximized for a predetermined time. Discount sales prediction means to be determined every time, a name for identifying the product, a discount sales price of the product and a discount sales start date and time for a consumer before a discount sales start date and time It is a program for functioning as a discount sales notice means to be displayed on the screen.

  According to the invention of claim 5 of the present application, the program of the present invention in the discount sales forecasting unit 6 sets the stock quantity of the target product to a predetermined quantity by the predetermined date and time for the main body processing apparatus 1, and the product Discount sales forecasting means for determining the discounted sales price of the product that maximizes the sales profit every predetermined time, a name identifying the product, the discounted sales price of the product, and the discounted sales start date and time This is a program for causing a consumer to function as a discount sales notice means to be displayed on a predetermined discount information display device 4 before the start date of discount sales.

  According to the present invention, it is desired to eliminate the inventory by the target date and time, for example, for a product such as fresh food, predict the sales quantity per unit time, set a discount sales price in advance, In addition, the defective inventory can be reduced as much as possible while making corrections for each subsequent unit time so as to maximize the sales profit for each unit time.

  In addition, consumers can know when and how much the products subject to price reduction will be sold, and the store can have the consumers stay in the store for a longer time, so the sales can be expected to increase.

  Furthermore, the store can have a preparation period until the discount starts, and can prepare for the discount process, for example, change the price display of the target products arranged in the store.

  In this way, salesclerks and consumers can know the discount sales information of the target product in advance, the dealer can make the necessary preparations, and reduce the inquiries from consumers and reconfirmation It is possible to prevent confusion in the accounting counter in which the POS terminal is installed at the start of discount sales.

  The present invention will be described below.

  FIG. 1 is a diagram showing an apparatus configuration example of the present invention. The configuration example in FIG. 1 includes a main body processing device 1, an external hard disk 2, a POS terminal 3, a discount information display device 4, and a system monitor 5. Each component is connected to a LAN, for example.

  The main body processing apparatus 1 includes a CPU, a memory, a built-in hard disk, various interface units, and a power source (not shown).

  The external hard disk 2 holds various tables constituting a database necessary for a conventional POS system and various tables necessary for discount sales prediction according to the present invention, and the database system software uses known techniques. is there.

  A discount sales prediction unit 6 of the present invention is installed together with other software necessary for the POS system in an internal hard disk (not shown) in the main body processing apparatus 1.

  A plurality of POS terminals 3 are installed in the store. The POS terminal 3 is a register that reads a bar code displayed on a product, calculates a price, totals sales, and the like. The POS system 3 is based on data input from the POS terminal 3. Will quickly and accurately catch the consumer's purchasing trends and conduct sales analysis and inventory management.

  The discount information display device 4 is a display installed at a position that is easy for consumers in the store to see, and displays discount sale notice information of the products targeted for price reduction.

  The system monitor 5 displays an instruction to the main body processing apparatus 1 from an attached keyboard or mouse (both not shown) or a response from the main body processing apparatus 1, and sets / displays an initial value of the POS system and the like. 2, the parameter setting screen of the discount sales notice device of the present invention illustrated in FIG. 2 is displayed, and the discount monitoring target product is determined and the discount monitoring information is set.

  Then, at the stage where the discount sales price and the discount sales start date and time of the target product are determined within each unit time from the present time, one or more displays installed at a location that is easy for consumers to see in the store To display discount sales notice information of the target product.

  Here, the display may be of a type such as a plasma display, a liquid crystal display, or an electric bulletin board, and may be located in a location that is easy for consumers to see at the entrance of the store in addition to the inside of the store.

  The system monitor 5 of FIG. 1 can set conditions as shown in the parameter setting screen example of FIG. 2 as one of the initial settings of the discount sales notice device of the present invention. , Discount monitoring interval setting table, discount monitoring target product table, PLU (price look-up) table, time zone / weekly single item sales results table, single item before sales discount table, single item discount sales results table keeping.

  In the discount monitoring interval setting table, the monitoring interval for each discount monitoring period is set, and numerical values (not shown) set on the parameter setting screen of FIG. 2 are stored (FIG. 8). A).

  In the discount monitoring target product table, discount monitoring information of products that are initially set as shown in the parameter setting screen example of FIG. 2 is stored (b in FIG. 8).

  The PLU table stores product information (scan code, product name, standard price, cost, inventory quantity, etc.), and is information that the POS system originally holds. Information called from the PLU table is displayed in each column of the setting items of the target product shown in FIG. 2 (c in FIG. 8).

  In the time zone / weekly single item sales performance table, the number of sales results (cumulative, average) by time of day is stored for each product. Here, by time and day of the week, information such as whether it falls on a holiday, weather (sunny, rainy, cloudy, snow), season (spring, summer, autumn, winter), temperature (average temperature), etc. It does not matter. Reference is made to the individual sales results by time zone on the date when the condition matches the target day (d in FIG. 8).

  In the sales record table before discounting by individual product, the number of sales results by unit time zone for each discount sales price is stored for each product (e in FIG. 8).

  In the single item discount sales record table, the number of sales records is stored for each product by time zone before discount for each discount amount (f in FIG. 8).

    In this way, in each unit time zone of the target product, the sales forecast according to the conditions is accurately performed, and the price reduction of the target product is started on one or more displays installed in a location that is easy for consumers to see in the store Discount sales notice information is displayed before, for example, 30 minutes or 1 hour ago.

    Here, for example, from the display of discount sales notice information multiple times until the discount sales start date and time, the consumer knows how long to wait until the product is discounted, so the number of sales is less than usual Expected to decrease. Even under such conditions, the sales performance table before discounting by individual product stores the sales performance by unit time zone for each discount sales price for each product. Forecast and correct the number of sales forecasts.

  The outline of the apparatus configured as described above will be described with reference to FIG.

  First, initial processing is performed. Using the parameter setting screen in the parameter setting screen example shown in FIG. 2, the discount target product is determined and the discount environment is set. According to the calculation result of whether or not the product is sold out within the set period, if the discount is not necessary, the subsequent steps are not necessary and are not performed. If the discount is necessary, the process proceeds to the subsequent steps (S51). When the discount is not necessary, it is excluded from the flowchart of FIG.

Next, discount monitoring is started based on the discount monitoring interval determined in S51 (S52).
When the predetermined discount monitoring time is reached (S53), the sales forecast quantity within the discount monitoring time at the previous predetermined discount monitoring time and the sales results for the planned sales number within the previous predetermined discount monitoring interval are displayed. Increase / decrease volume, change in sales speed, and the number of sales decrease in the consumer's purchase refusal for the next discounted sales price is included in the calculation as sales forecast correction processing, and within the predetermined discount monitoring interval thereafter The discount price that allows the sale of a predetermined quantity is calculated. The display of the discount recommendation screen shown in FIG. 4 is displayed on the display of the POS terminal 3, and the content of the display example of the discount sales notice screen shown in FIG. 3 is displayed on the discount information display device 4. The store clerk who has seen the display on the POS terminal 3 returns to the main body processing device 1 that he / she has seen the display by pressing the “OK” button in FIG. 4 for confirmation. The main body processing device 1 changes the price of the target product written in the discount monitoring target product table when the discount sales time comes, and the store clerk displays the price of the product according to the discount sales time as necessary. Change it (S54).

  When the end time of the discount monitoring period is reached, the discount monitoring ends (S55).

  An example of the initial process shown in S51 of FIG. 5 will be described with reference to FIG.

  In the example of parameter setting screen as shown in FIG. 2 called by the system monitor 5 in FIG. 1, a product targeted for price reduction in the “1) Target product setting” column (a product whose inventory is to be lost even if the price is reduced) The information about is read with the keyboard or mouse by referring to the PLU table using the scan code as a key (S61).

Next, in the discount environment setting field, a period for presenting the discount sales price is set in the “2) Discount monitoring period” field. For example, if the item is to be sold out on the same day, the date and time to be sold out corresponding to 12 hours, 1 week, or 1 month is designated.
In the “3) Disposal inventory” column, set the number of products you want to sell within the discount monitoring period.
In the “4) Discount price” column, the limit price of the discount price is set. This is to ensure that the price does not fall below this value.
In the “5) Discount recommendation time” column, the time before the discount sales start time is displayed on the discount information display device 4 when the discount sales price is changed is set.
In the “6) Discount amount unit” field, the unit of the amount of discount is set. The discount amount is calculated in units of this amount.

  When the above is set and the input is confirmed, the set value is read into the “discount monitoring target product table” shown in the external hard disk 2 of FIG. 1 (S62).

  Here, a storage example of the discount monitoring target product table is shown in FIG.

  Further, the “discount monitoring interval setting table” shown in the external hard disk 2 of FIG. 1 is set with the discount monitoring interval in the discount monitoring period, and the setting can be changed. A predetermined discount monitoring interval is set in a plurality of times within the discount monitoring period, and the discount sales price can be changed step by step for each discount monitoring interval. For example, if it is a product that you want to sell out on the day, monitor it every hour, if it is a product that you want to sell out within one month, monitor it once every two days. For the discount monitoring interval, the data of the “discount monitoring interval setting table” is referred to (S63).

FIG. 10b shows a storage example of the discount monitoring interval setting table.
For example, when the discount monitoring period is within one day, the discount monitoring interval is determined every hour by b in FIG.
The above is an example of the initial processing.

  Next, an embodiment of the discount process shown in S54 of FIG. 5 will be described with reference to FIG.

  When each discount monitoring time within the discount monitoring period determined in the initial process is reached, it is determined whether the product is sold out within the discount monitoring period, and when it is determined that the product is not sold, the discount sales price is presented.

  First, when the current stock quantity is smaller than the planned disposal quantity, the current stock quantity is set as the planned disposal quantity (S71).

  Here, the discount sales price can be corrected every discount monitoring unit time. For example, a discount of 20 yen was set during the first discount monitoring unit time, but sales did not increase as expected, and a further discount of 30 yen was presented during the second discount monitoring unit time. It is possible.

  To determine whether or not a product is sold out within the scheduled period, refer to the past “sales record table by time and day”. In this table, the past sales results are stored for each time zone and each day of the week. FIG. 10c shows an example of sales result table by time zone and day of the week. Based on this information, the sales forecast quantity for each discount monitoring unit time is calculated (S72).

  If the sales forecast quantity within the discount monitoring period is below the planned disposal quantity, the discount is determined. An example of monitoring the target product is shown in FIG. In the case of this example, the calculation is made assuming that the stock quantity at 10:00 in the morning is 50. If it is predicted that the stock will not be available at 13:00, 14:00 is determined as the discount sales start time. Further, in order to see the effect of discount to some extent, the width of the discount monitoring unit time can be changed at 14:00, which is the discount sales start time, instead of the time of the discount monitoring unit time (S73).

In d of FIG. 10, in the time zone 10:00 to 11:00, at the time of the sales forecast of the correction of 11:00, the sales performance quantity in this time zone is 5.3 pieces of the forecast, and the result is 5.0 pieces. Since it is known, 5.0 is displayed. The underline indicates actual results, and so on. The following figures are revised with reference to the results of the previous discount monitoring unit time at each time point. In this table, at 13:00, the sales forecast quantity from 14:00 one hour later to the target time of 20:00 is 32.8, and the inventory forecast quantity is 35.1. Predicted quantity> predicted sales quantity, and it is determined that discount is necessary at this point.

  Next, the number of sales forecasts between the discount recommendation and the discount sales start is corrected. During the time period between the discount recommendation and the start of discount sales, the consumer knows how long to wait before the product price is discounted, so the sales volume is expected to decrease from the normal time. A decrease in sales volume is predicted and calculated with reference to the pre-discount sales result table shown in FIG. FIG. 10e shows an example of a sales record table before discounting by individual item. In this table, the sales volume reduction results in the time zone before the past discount for each discount price are stored. Based on this information, the sales decrease quantity is predicted, and the expected sales decrease quantity is added to the inventory quantity to be disposed of. This is the required sales forecast quantity.

  In FIG. 2, since 14:00 is the discount sales start time, the discount recommendation time is initially set to 30 minutes before in FIG. 2, so 13:30 is the discount recommendation time.

  From e in FIG. 10 to 13:00 to 14:00, if a discount is announced, one sales decrease is expected. Since the time when the discount is actually notified is 30 minutes = 0.5 hours, a sales decrease of 0.5 is expected (S74).

  Therefore, 37.1 (the number of stocks) −32.8 (the number of forecasts) +0.5 (the number of corrected sales) = 4.8 is presented a discount price that is expected to increase sales within the discount monitoring period. The decrease quantity calculated by predicting the decrease in the sales quantity in this way is subtracted from the sales forecast quantity before correction to obtain the sales forecast quantity (S75).

  Next, a discount price is calculated. For the determination of the discount amount, refer to the “Discount sales result table by single item”. This table stores the number of past sales increases for each discount amount for each item.

  An example of the “single item discount sales record table” is shown in FIG. In this example, between 14:00 and 20:00 (6 hours), an amount of 4.8 sales increases, that is, 4.8 ÷ 6 = 0.8 increase / H is calculated. There is data that can be expected to increase sales every hour of 0.5 pieces by 5 yen discount and 1.1 pieces by 10 yen discount in the discount sales results table by individual product, so that part is converted into a function, 0.8 Calculate the amount of money you can expect to sell.

  Then, 8 yen (7.5 yen rounded off) is calculated as the discount amount. However, since the unit of discount amount is set at every 5 yen, 10 yen is actually used as the discount amount (S76).

When the discount amount is determined, the discount recommendation shown in FIG. 4 is made on the screen of the system monitor 5 (S77).
Further, when the “discount recommendation time” set in 5) of FIG. 2 is reached, a discount notice display as shown in the example of FIG. 3 is performed (S78). Then, sales are performed at a predetermined discount price at the time when the discount is executed. An example of the transition of the sales quantity forecast and the inventory quantity forecast is shown in the discount execution table of g in FIG.

  In this way, for each discount monitoring unit time, for example, after 1 hour, the necessity of discount is determined. This discount necessity determination is performed every discount monitoring unit time, and if it is determined that the discount is necessary, the sales forecast is corrected (S75), the discount price is calculated (S76), and the discount recommendation is displayed ( S77) The process is repeated, and the optimum discount sales price is calculated sequentially.

  FIG. 9 shows a graph of the example. The Y axis indicates the inventory quantity of the target product, the horizontal axis is the time axis, and is divided for each discount monitoring unit time within the discount monitoring time. Here, the delimiter for each discount monitoring unit time is set as monitoring time 1, monitoring time 2, monitoring time 3,..., And the end time of the discount monitoring time is displayed as the discount monitoring time. Calculate the forecast curve based on the past data, monitor the inventory quantity along this, and show how the discount is executed at the monitoring time when the forecast curve needs to be discounted Yes.

Is an example of the apparatus configuration of the present invention. Is an example of parameter setting screen Is a display example of the discount sales notice screen Is a display example of a discount recommendation screen. These are flowcharts which show the general outline of the present invention. Is an example of initial processing. Is an example of discount processing. These are various table examples 1. Is a graph of an example. These are various table examples 2.

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DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 1 Main body processing apparatus 2 External hard disk 3 POS terminal 4 Discount information display apparatus 5 System monitor 6 Discount sales prediction part

Claims (5)

A discount sales forecasting means for determining a stock price of the product by a predetermined date and time, and determining a discount sales price of the product that maximizes the profit from the product every predetermined time;
A discount sales notice unit for displaying a name for identifying the product, a discount sales price of the product, and a discount sales start date and time on a predetermined discount information display device to the consumer before the discount sales start date and time Discount sales management device.   The discount sales forecasting unit applies the discount sales price of the product to be applied within each predetermined time from the product information of the product, the sales performance information of the product, and the sales monitoring information of the product every predetermined time. The discount sales management device according to claim 1, wherein:   The discount sale notice means displays a name for identifying the product, a discount sale price of the product and a discount sale start date and time on the discount information display device to the consumer, and on a display of a predetermined POS terminal. The discount sales management device according to claim 1, wherein the discount sales management device is displayed. A step of determining a discount target product and setting a discount environment;
Calculating whether a product will be sold out within a set period of time,
Starting discount monitoring based on a predetermined discount monitoring interval when it is determined that discounting is necessary based on the result of the calculation;
Calculating a sales discount price within the discount monitoring interval from a change in sales volume and sales rate within the discount monitoring interval when a predetermined discount monitoring time is reached;
A discount sales management method comprising: displaying a discount sales notice screen on a discount information display device for a consumer. A discount sales forecasting means for determining a discount sales price of the product for each predetermined time, wherein the computer sets the stock quantity of the product to a predetermined quantity by a predetermined date and time, and maximizes the sales profit of the product;
Let the consumer function as a discount sales notice means for displaying on the predetermined discount information display device before the discount sales start date and time the discount sales price and the discount sales start date and time for identifying the product. Program for.

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