JPH0752474B2 - Product purchasing system - Google Patents

Description

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE INVENTION [Industrial field of application] The present invention distributes a product catalog to a large number of customers in a certain area, groups a required number of customers to make a bulk order, and places an order for all areas. The present invention relates to a product purchasing system that allows a computer to easily perform a series of processes from collecting data and sending products.

[Conventional technology]

Conventionally, as a method of purchasing products, a product catalog is distributed to an unspecified number of customers, an order slip is issued to each customer, and order data is input to a computer terminal based on the order slip and the order data is input. A system that counts and ships products is used.

Nowadays, as a substitute for various forms, an IC card having a built-in counting circuit capable of storing and holding a large amount of rewritable data suitable for computer processing is widely used. Therefore, order data for purchasing a number of products is written in this IC card with the required data input device, stored and retained, and
By inputting the card into the terminal directly connected to the central computer, the workability is improved, human resources are reduced, and the data can be collected quickly and accurately.

[Problems to be solved by the invention]

However, when using this type of IC card as a database card for ordering products, it is necessary to specify the stored content and its format as well as rewritable data in order to utilize it efficiently. Moreover, a simple input device for performing these data processing operations is required.

Therefore, an object of the present invention is to use an IC card to easily store and hold order data for many products for a large number of orderers, collect the order data held in this way by signal processing, and send it to the main computer. Providing a product purchasing system that transfers data in a batch, and based on this, orders and ships products quickly and reliably, significantly reducing human labor and enabling programmable data processing from product ordering to shipping There is.

[Means for solving problems]

A commodity purchasing system according to the present invention is a first embodiment in which a custom IC card storing a commodity number and a list of unit prices is detachably mounted.
Using the IC card reader / writer to read and display the product number and unit price from the order IC card and write desired order data to the order IC card, and the order data written to the plurality of order IC cards 2nd IC with detachable IC card for totaling
A step of transferring and storing the order data written in the plurality of order IC cards to the total IC card by using the card reader / writer, and the target of the next sale from the total IC card by using the second IC card reader / writer Based on the order data aggregated by the computer, a step of transferring and storing a list of item numbers and unit prices of the products to be stored in the order IC card, transferring the order data written in the aggregation IC card to the computer, And a step of instructing a product transaction for each orderer of each order IC card.

In the above-mentioned commodity purchasing system, the step of writing the order data in the order IC card includes a keyboard, a data display unit, an arithmetic processing circuit, which has a built-in order IC card and which reads and writes the order data from and into the order IC card. Using an order data input / output device equipped with
Write the data specifying the orderer and the number of orders corresponding to the list of product numbers and unit prices stored in advance on the order IC card, and specify the orderer on the data display section, product number, unit price, number of orders And can be configured to display the purchase price.

[Action]

According to the merchandise purchasing system of the present invention, rewritable merchandise data is provided by using an IC card and order data is written to collectively order a plurality of orderers by group, and these data are sequentially written. By consolidating and constantly rewriting new product data in the process, and sequentially transmitting the aggregated order data to the main computer, the order data can be efficiently and efficiently transferred. At the same time, the work efficiency can be improved, and an accurate and quick merchandise purchasing system can be realized at low cost.

〔Example〕

Next, regarding the embodiment of the commodity purchasing system according to the present invention,
The following is a detailed description with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a system diagram showing a basic flow of product data and order data in the product purchasing system of the present invention. In FIG. 1, the orderer forms a group by a plurality of members, and a group leader 10 is selected from among them. A person in charge 14 dispatched from the branch 12 is designated for the plurality of groups thus configured. There are multiple such personnel 14 in the branch 12, and the order data collected by each person 14 is the branch.
Transfer is performed by a computer online connected to 16.

Therefore, the hardware configuration for exchanging product data and order data between the branch 16 and the team leader 10 is as shown in FIG. That is, the main computer 20 is arranged in the branch 16, while the order data input / output device 22 is provided for each group.
Is prepared. Then, as a data transfer means between them, first, each branch 12 is provided with a computer terminal 24 online connected to the main computer 20, and an IC card reader / writer 26 is connected to the terminal 24 to transfer data. A large-capacity totaling IC card 28 is used as a storage medium. On the other hand, a handy reader / writer 32 that uses a small capacity order IC card 30 as a data storage medium in the order data input / output device 22 and exchanges data between the order IC card 30 and the aggregation IC card 28. The person in charge who belongs to each branch 12 carries this.

Next, the data handled by the product purchasing system of the present invention will be described. In the present invention, basically, the product data provided from the headquarters 16 to each group leader 10 and the data from each group leader 10 to the group leader 10 are provided.
And order data provided to the customer. The product data is, for example, a product number and its unit price, and a product catalog showing the product number and its unit price is used together so that the contents can be confirmed. The order data includes an orderer number, a product number, and the number of orders for each group. Therefore, an example of the memory format of the custom IC card 30 used in the system of the present invention is shown in FIG. In other words, the order IC card 30 is set with each writing area consisting of an identification code for identifying the applicable range, a group code, and a planning code for designating the period when the product is planned to be sold, and the product number and its unit price are listed. A product area stored as a table and an order area in which the orderer's personal number, order product number, and the number of orders are written are set. FIG. 4 shows an example of the memory format of the total IC card 28. The total IC card 28 includes an identification code for identifying the applicable range, a first plan code for designating the current and next product sales planning period, a second plan code, and a course code for designating a course in charge of the person in charge 14. Each writing area is set, and the first product area and the second product area in which the product numbers and their unit prices planned this time and next time are stored as a list, and the individual number of the orderer and the ordered product for each group A number and a plurality of order areas for writing the number of orders are set.

Therefore, the transfer of product data and order data in the system of the present invention is performed as follows. For example, set the product sales planning period to one week, and store product data for two weeks at the headquarters.
Online from 16 main computers 20 via terminal 24 and reader / writer 26 of each branch 12 IC card 28
Write in. Next, this total IC card 28
Thus, the handy reader / writer 32 is used to write the product data for the first week to be sold to the order IC card 30. In this way, the order IC card 30 in which the product data is written is detachably attached to the order data input / output device 22 of each group leader 10, and the order data is written by each orderer. The order IC card 30 on which the order data has been written is the order data input / output device.
It is detached from 22 and handed to the person in charge 14 from the team leader 10, where the custom IC card 30 is detachably attached to the handy reader / writer 32 to which the total IC card 28 is detachably attached. Then, the handy reader / writer 32 writes the order data to the total IC card 28. At this time, the order data is printed out by the printer 34 provided in the handy reader / writer 32, and the team leader 10 can confirm the contents. Further, after the writing of the order data to the totalization IC card 28 is completed, a data rewriting operation is performed on the order IC card 28 so as to write the product data for one week to be sold next. Then, the total IC card 28 in which a large number of order data has been written is detached from the handy reader / writer 32, attached to the reader / writer 26 provided in each branch 12, and online from the terminal 24 to the main computer 20 of the headquarters 16. Order data is transferred to. Also at this time,
To the total IC card 28, the main computer 20 transfers the next sales target and the product data for one week, and rewrites the product data for one week which has already been sold. In this way, the order data collected in the head office 16 is sent to the product shipping center 18 to ship the products ordered for each group (see FIG. 1).

FIG. 5 is a system configuration diagram of the order data input / output device 22 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 described above. The order data input / output device 22 includes a function key 36, a ten-key pad 38, and a data display section 40 as input / output means. These key input signals are input via the I / O interface 42,
CPU44 according to the preset order data format
The order data is read from and written to or rewritten to the memory 46 via the. The contents of the memory 46 at this time are transferred to the custom IC card 30 via the I / O interface 48, and data writing and rewriting are performed. Further, the contents of the memory 46 in which the data is written and rewritten can be displayed as data on the data display unit 40 formed of a liquid crystal display device via the display driving device 50, for example. The operation of the system of the order data input / output device 22 configured as described above can be configured as shown in FIG. First, order IC
The card 30 is set in the device 22, and the initial state of order data input is set by turning on the power switch or operating the screen deletion key (function key 36). Therefore, first, the personal number of the orderer is input by operating the ten keys 38. The entered personal number is stored in the memory 46 and then displayed on the data display unit 40. Next, the product number to be ordered is keyed in as in the above. The entered product number is stored in the memory
It is stored in 46 and displayed on the data display section 40. At this time,
Data regarding the unit price of the designated product number is read from the product area of the order IC card 30, stored in the memory 46, and displayed on the data display unit 40. Therefore, the number of orders for this product is keyed in. The entered order quantity is stored in the memory 46 and displayed on the data display section 40. The order data keyed in the memory 46 is the order IC.
Written in the order area of card 30. Then CPU44
Then, the unit price of the product displayed on the data display unit 40 is multiplied by the number of orders, the order amount is calculated, and the result is stored in the memory 46 and displayed on the data display unit 40. The above operation completes the ordering operation for one product. Therefore, when ordering another product, another product number may be keyed in and the above-described operation may be repeated.

FIG. 7 is a system configuration diagram of the handy reader / writer 32 shown in FIGS. 1 and 2 described above. The basic configuration of the handy reader / writer 32 is the same as the system configuration of the order data input / output device shown in FIG. That is, a function key 52, a numeric keypad 54, and a data display unit 56 are provided as input / output means, and the key is a C
Connected with PU60. Further, a memory 62 is connected to the CPU 60, I / O interfaces 64 and 66 for connecting with the totaling IC card 28 and the ordered IC card 30, respectively, and a display driving device 68 and a printer for connecting with the data display unit 56. A printer driving device 70 for connecting to the printer 34 is provided. Basically, the operation of the system of the handy reader / writer 32 configured as described above is performed by transferring the order data written in the order IC card 30 to the totaling IC card 28 and writing all the data in a predetermined order area. The product data of the planned product to be sold next that is written in 28 is transferred to the product area of the order IC card 30 and rewritten. It should be noted that the handy reader / writer 32 can also write additional order data for a product, as in the order data input / output device 32 described above. The operation in this case is as shown in FIG. The handy reader / writer 32 has a print function, and the operation of the printer 34 is as shown in FIG. That is,
You can print out individual order data copies, individual billing amount lists, and group order data copies.

Finally, the reader / writer 26 provided in the terminal 24 that is online connected to the main computer 20 reads all the order data written in the tabulation IC card 28 by the operation of the terminal 24 and transfers it to the main computer 20. At the same time, the product data regarding the next planned product is transferred from the main computer 20 to the tabulation IC card 28 to rewrite the data. Therefore, the operation of reading the order data and the operation of writing the product data in the reader / writer 26 can be performed according to the procedure shown in FIG.

Although the preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above, the present invention is not limited to the above-described embodiments, and it goes without saying that various design changes can be made without departing from the spirit of the present invention. .

〔The invention's effect〕

As is apparent from the above-mentioned embodiments, according to the present invention,
Transfer of product order data can be achieved smoothly and quickly using an IC card. In particular, according to the present invention, the orderer side uses a common ordering IC card for each group, and writes these ordering IC cards in a batch to the totaling IC card for direct computer processing. Order data can also be expanded from a small amount of data to a large amount of data in sequence, and computer processing can be achieved with extremely high efficiency. Also, when reading order data from an order IC card, the order IC card can be rewritten with new product data for the next period, so data can be exchanged efficiently when using this type of IC card. It can be achieved and a large-scale product purchasing system can be constructed at low cost.

[Brief description of drawings]

FIG. 1 is a system explanatory view showing a data flow of a product purchasing system according to the present invention, FIG. 2 is a system explanatory view showing a hardware configuration of the product purchasing system shown in FIG. 1, and FIG. Format of the memory of the custom IC card used in the system, Fig. 4 shows the total IC used in the system of the present invention
FIG. 5 is a format diagram of the memory of the card, FIG. 5 is a system configuration diagram of the order data input / output device constituting the system of the present invention, and FIG. 6 is a flowchart showing an example of data processing operation of the order data input / output device shown in FIG. FIG. 7 is a system configuration diagram of a handy reader / writer that constitutes the system of the present invention, and FIGS. 8 and 9 are flow chart diagrams showing an example of data processing operations of the handy reader / writer shown in FIG. 7, respectively. The figure is a flow chart showing an example of data processing operation of a reader / writer provided in a terminal connected online with a main computer used in the system of the present invention. 10 …… Group leader, 12 …… Branch 14 …… Person in charge, 16 …… Headquarters 18 …… Shipment center 20 …… Main computer 22 …… Order data input / output device 24 …… Terminal, 26 …… Reader / writer 28 …… Total IC card, 30 …… Custom IC card 32 …… Handy reader / writer 34 …… Printer, 36 …… Function keys 38 …… Numeric keypad, 40 …… Data display section 42 …… I / O interface 44 …… CPU , 46 …… Memory 48 …… I / O interface 50 …… Display drive 52 …… Function keys, 54 …… Numpad 56 …… Data display area 58 …… I / O interface 60 …… CPU, 62 …… Memory 64 …… I / O interface 66 …… I / O interface 68 …… Display driver 70 …… Printer driver

Continuation of the front page (56) References JP 61-245276 (JP, A) JP 61-217865 (JP, A) JP 52-149050 (JP, A) JP 55-33217 (JP , A) JP-A-60-124797 (JP, A)

Claims (2)

[Claims] 1. A custom IC that stores a list of product numbers and unit prices
Using the first IC card reader / writer with which the card is detachably mounted, reading and displaying the product number and unit price from the order IC card, writing desired order data in the order IC card, and a plurality of the orders Aggregation of order data written in IC cards collectively Aggregation of order data written in multiple order IC cards using a second IC card reader / writer that detachably mounts IC cards Transferring and storing to a card, and the second step
Using the IC card reader / writer, the step of transferring and storing a list of product numbers and unit prices of products to be sold in the next period to the ordering IC card from the counting IC card, and the order written in the counting IC card A commodity purchasing system comprising: a step of transferring data to a computer; and a step of instructing a commodity transaction for each orderer of each order IC card based on order data collected by the computer. 2. The commodity purchase system according to claim 1, wherein the step of writing the order data in the order IC card includes the order IC card and reads and writes the order data in the order IC card. Using an order data input / output device equipped with a keyboard, a data display unit, and an arithmetic processing circuit for specifying the orderer's data corresponding to the product number and unit price list stored in advance on the order IC card, and A product purchasing system in which the number of orders is written and the data indicating the orderer, the product number, the unit price, the number of orders, and the purchase price are displayed on the data display unit.