JP4811600B2 - Stock status confirmation system - Google Patents

Description

  The present invention relates to product inventory management, and more particularly to a technique for grasping inventory status from both viewpoints of inventory quantity and quality.

  Conventionally, information on each product is recorded on a data carrier called an IC tag, attached to the product, and the product inventory status is confirmed by reading the information from the IC tag. In addition, recently, by providing a sensor device to an IC tag, it has become possible to collect in real time measurement value information obtained by measurement by the sensor device, along with distribution history information of individual articles ( For example, see Patent Document 1).

Japanese Patent Application No. 2006-153048 Japanese Patent Laid-Open No. 10-111950 JP 2001-5984 A

  The collected inventory information is graphed based on a plurality of indicators. In order to accurately grasp the inventory information, it is desirable to obtain information based on more indexes. However, in the conventional expression method (see Patent Document 2 and Patent Document 3), 3 of the acquired inventory information It is difficult to display two or more indicators well, and it is difficult to accurately grasp the stock status.

  Therefore, an object of the present invention is to provide an inventory status confirmation system capable of accurately grasping an inventory status by displaying three or more indexes in a graph.

  In order to solve the above problem, in the present invention, a first graph generating means for generating a first graph that is a graph with the first index and the reference index as coordinate axes in the acquired inventory information is displayed on the screen. In the first graph, for the stock specified by the first index corresponding to the designated area and the instruction means for designating any area divided by the first index, a second index And a third index are used as coordinate axes, respectively, and a second graph is generated in which each region specified by the combination of the second index and the third index is expressed in a different manner according to the reference index. An inventory status confirmation system having two graph generation means is provided.

  According to the present invention, first, the first graph based on the first index and the reference index is displayed, and then the range based on the first index is designated to designate the second index for the inventory based on the value of the first index. Since the second graph expressing each area specified by the second index and the third index in a manner corresponding to the reference index is displayed with the index of 3 and the third index as coordinate axes, the most important After confirming the standard index for the first index, it is possible to confirm the standard index for each combination of the second index and the third index, which is limited to the range of the first index. It becomes possible to grasp the situation.

DESCRIPTION OF EMBODIMENTS Hereinafter, preferred embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the drawings.
(1. System configuration)
FIG. 1 is a functional block diagram showing an embodiment of an inventory status confirmation system according to the present invention. In FIG. 1, 10 is inventory information storage means, 20 is arithmetic processing means, 21 is first graph generation means, 22 is second graph generation means, 30 is display means, and 40 is instruction means.

  In FIG. 1, the inventory information storage means 10 records the detailed information about the goods in stock, and is realized by a large-capacity storage device such as a hard disk. The information on the products in stock needs to be recorded for items that can be at least three or more indicators. In this embodiment, fruit product information records at least three items of sugar content, viscosity, and transparency. The arithmetic processing means 20 has a function of performing control and arithmetic processing of the entire inventory status confirmation system of the present invention, and is realized by a CPU in the computer executing a predetermined program.

  The arithmetic processing unit 20 includes a first graph generation unit 21 and a second graph generation unit 22. The first graph generation means 21 has a function of extracting the inventory information stored in the inventory information storage means 10 that corresponds to the first index and graphing it using the reference index. The second graph generation unit 22 extracts information about the second index and the third index from the inventory information storage unit 10 according to the first index instructed by the instruction unit 40, and uses the reference index. Has the function of graphing. The first graph generation unit 21 and the second graph generation unit 22 are realized by the CPU executing a dedicated program for graph generation.

  The display means 30 is a display device such as a liquid crystal display. The instruction means 40 is an instruction input device such as a keyboard or a mouse. The inventory status confirmation system shown in FIG. 1 is realized by mounting a dedicated program on a general-purpose computer as a whole.

(2. Processing operation)
Next, the processing operation of the inventory status confirmation system shown in FIG. 1 will be described. In the present embodiment, an example will be described in which sugar content is used as the first index, viscosity is used as the second index, transparency is used as the third index, and inventory quantity is used as the reference index. When the user instructs the graph display by the instruction unit 40 in a state where the stock information is accumulated in the stock information storage unit 10, the first graph generation unit 21 extracts the sugar content for each product from the stock information storage unit 10. Then, after counting the number for each range of sugar content, the sugar content and the stock quantity are graphed as coordinate axes. This is called the first graph. When the first graph generating unit 21 generates the first graph, the arithmetic processing unit 20 performs a process of displaying the first graph on the display unit 30.

  Here, the state of the first graph displayed on the display means 30 is shown in FIG. In FIG. 2A, the horizontal axis represents sugar content and the vertical axis represents inventory quantity. In the example of FIG. 2A, the sugar content is divided into 5 units, indicating that there are 200 products with sugar content 0 to 5 and 140 products with sugar content 5 to 10 in stock. By looking at this first graph, the user can confirm how much stock has each sugar content in terms of sugar content, which is the most important first index.

  As shown in FIG. 2A, in the state where the first graph is displayed, the user designates one of the shaded areas. Specifically, an arrow-shaped cursor displayed on the screen is moved by the mouse as the instruction means 40, and an instruction to click at a desired position is given. In the present embodiment, the region is divided according to the range of sugar content. Therefore, in the example of FIG. 2, there are eight selectable regions having a sugar content of 0 to 5, a sugar content of 6 to 10,..., And a sugar content of 36 to 40.

  Then, when any area is designated by the instruction means 40, the second graph generation means 22 recognizes the sugar content range corresponding to the designated area, searches for products having that sugar content, and stores inventory information. Information on the viscosity and transparency of the corresponding product is extracted from the storage means 10. And after counting the number for every combination of the predetermined range of a viscosity and transparency, it graphs with a viscosity and transparency as a coordinate axis. This is called a second graph. When the second graph generating unit 22 generates the second graph, the arithmetic processing unit 20 performs a process of displaying the second graph on the display unit 30.

  Here, the state of the second graph displayed on the display means 30 is shown in FIGS. 2B and 3, the horizontal axis represents viscosity, and the vertical axis represents transparency. In the examples of FIGS. 2B and 3, the viscosity and the transparency are both divided by 5 units. Then, the area determined by the combination of the viscosity value and the transparency value is displayed in a different manner depending on the corresponding stock quantity. In the example of FIGS. 2B and 3, the shade is divided into six levels, and the darker the shade, the greater the stock quantity that is a combination of the viscosity and the transparency. In FIGS. 2B and 3, for convenience of explanation, the inventory quantity is indicated by the shaded shade, but in reality, it is desirable to indicate the inventory quantity by color coding.

  The preferred embodiments of the present invention have been described above. However, the present invention is not limited to the above embodiments, and various modifications can be made. For example, the first index, the second index, and the third index are not limited to sugar content, viscosity, and transparency, and various indexes can be used depending on the products to be handled. Moreover, even when the fruit is treated as a product as in the above embodiment, and the first index, the second index, and the third index are set to sugar content, viscosity, and transparency, the product information is further When information about a large number of items is recorded, the first index to the third index may be changed to other items. In this case, the first graph and the second graph are created based on the items newly set as the first index to the third index.

It is a functional block diagram which shows one Embodiment of the inventory condition confirmation system which concerns on this invention. It is a figure which shows the mode of the 1st graph displayed on the display means 30, and a 2nd graph. It is a figure which shows the mode of the 2nd graph displayed on the display means.

Explanation of symbols

DESCRIPTION OF SYMBOLS 10 ... Inventory information storage means 20 ... Arithmetic processing means 21 ... 1st graph production | generation means 22 ... 2nd graph production | generation means 30 ... Display means 40 ... Instruction means

Claims (2)

A system that displays a graph generated based on inventory information on a display means and checks the status of inventory,
A first graph generating means for generating a first graph which is a graph having the first index and the reference index as coordinate axes in the acquired inventory information;
In the first graph displayed on the screen, an instruction means for designating any region divided by the first index;
For the inventory specified by the first index corresponding to the specified area, the second index and the third index are used as coordinate axes, respectively, and specified by a combination of the second index and the third index Second graph generating means for generating a second graph expressing each region to be expressed in a different manner according to the reference index;
An inventory status confirmation system characterized by comprising:   The inventory status confirmation system according to claim 1, wherein the reference index is an inventory quantity, the first index is sugar content, the second index is viscosity, and the third index is transparency.