New technology and solutions for chain industry automation
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1. 16/24H full-time service store
Not only convenience stores, many 24-hour stores have also appeared one after another, but what followed was a headache of management problems, such as a serious lack of night shift staff and management difficulties, and most of the store’s inventory losses occurred. At this moment. In addition, the safety of the staff in the store and the night shift is also one of the factors considered.
The so-called 16/24H full-time service store is simply the service with only two shifts of staff, that is, between 7 am to 3 pm to 11 pm to 11 at night and 7 am the next day. Although there is no staff service, it can still be served by the store. Replaced by a large-scale vending machine at the door: the vending machine can be based on the size of the store, and the storage capacity can be selected from 450 to 800 in several sizes. You can also use the general credit card or the company’s membership card to enter the password and merchandise Automatic code selection service. This type of store is developing rapidly abroad. In addition to effectively solving the management problems caused by night shifts, it also has the following advantages:
(1) Commodity power
(2) The taste of the store
(3) Comply with management principles
(4) Adopt computerized management
(5) Easy to manage without using cash
Under the long-term staff shortage, especially the level of cashier staff is severely lacking. In some retail businesses during peak hours, although there are POS cash registers but there are no personnel to operate them, scientists have a whim and imagine a cashier. The screen of two cash registers can be operated at the same time–
2. Below we can understand the evolution of the cash register design:
(1) Traditional cashier
That is, one cashier with one packer or one cashier with several packers to assist with packing and cashing.
(2) Cashier Express
One cashier orders the goods while the other cashier is only responsible for collecting money, so that the cash register is operated continuously to speed up customs clearance.
(3) Self-service packaging cashier
There is only one cashier, who provides packaging materials, and the customer packs them after leaving the cashier.
(4) Double-entry cashier
One cashier is responsible for taking care of the two cashiers, which are scanned by customers themselves, packaged by self-service or automatically packaged by the system. This is mostly used in membership-based supermarkets, mass merchandisers, or DIY specialty stores, etc. Many different ways of speaking:
1.Manual control
2.Automatic counting
3.Scan sensing
4.Weight sensing
5.Graphic display
6.Fully automatic cashier
3. Electronic price target
In the store automation system, if there is no synchronization, various errors often occur. In order to completely solve this problem, a new device has appeared. Used in the retail industry, it is the electronic price target of the connection. Its function is through:
(1) The modem receives the new product or price change data that the head office sends to each branch synchronously, and immediately transmits it to the (2) In-store folding computer system for processing, and then (3) The laser printer prints out POP, posters or merchandise Explanatory materials, staff only need to get the goods to post on the spot, and then (4) the radio transmitter will send the information such as the price change of the goods to (5) electronic price target (6) special promotion product billboard (7) ecological product notice board Change the display of its DATT, and of course the computer will also send the data to the POS system at the front desk synchronously, so that all actions can be synchronized in an instant; if there are some temporary promotion changes, you can also use manual Change the price and (8) H. T. The terminal is completed, so that all actions of this industry can be completed simultaneously in the computer system, which greatly reduces the chance of errors; however, due to the continuous evolution of the electronic price target system, three different systems have emerged:
Wire control system
Wireless transmission and battery-powered system]
Radio transmission room and solar power supply system
Four, super check
The method of use is to mark each product with a Super Tag label. When the product does not pass through the cash register, it will alarm when it reaches the exit. If the product is passed through a specially designed unmanned cash register, it will be in a very short time. The goods in the shopping cart will be automatically credited to the account one by one, so that the goods can pass through at the exit without any obstacles, and time and management can also be added to the system. This has been successfully used in a large supermarket in South Africa.
Five, the use of two-dimensional barcodes in the chain industry
The most important thing in the application of two-dimensional bar code in chain enterprises is to solve the repeated input of data, so it also greatly improves the security of the data itself, and it is a very low-cost data storage medium, which can store a large amount of data or even The image can be read quickly even under the condition of OFF-LINE, so some people call it data with code, that is, the so-called data follows the product, and because of its low-cost characteristics, it is expected to be widely used in the future. Used in various industries. Of course, the most important thing is to use a large number of them in the logistics and retail industries, especially chain companies scattered in various places. There is a more urgent need for the use of two-dimensional barcodes. The reason is that it has some basic characteristics and is becoming a retailer. Required:
(1) Large storage capacity: Each square inch of two-dimensional bar code can store at least 938BYTE or more data.
(2) Image storage: through a compression program, the two-dimensional bar code can store photos, graphics, etc.
(3) Fast reading function.
(4) It can be used with one-dimensional barcode: the scanner can read one-dimensional barcode and two-dimensional barcode at the same time.
(5) High security: through special encryption, decryption and other functions, the security of data can be improved.
(6) The error is radiant with promise: Generally speaking, even with 15% of the damaged area, it can be successfully identified and read.
(7) The size of the barcode can be changed: The size of the two-dimensional barcode can be changed under the control of the software to suit various commodities.
Due to the above-mentioned characteristics, two-dimensional barcodes can be widely used in many aspects, such as personnel management, health insurance and medical information systems, factory manufacturing control, computer data processing, book and bibliographic management, license fingerprint identification, securities management, and distribution Transportation management, etc.
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