A sales data processing apparatus has a stock data memory for storing stock data indicating the stock of each item. When sales of a certain item are registered, a value corresponding to a registered number is subtracted from the stock data corresponding to the item. When the item is put into stock, the stock-in number is added to the stock data. The apparatus has a detector for detecting that the stock data has reached a predetermined value. When the detector detects that the stock data has reached the predetermined value, date and time data at this time are stored in an out-of-stock date and time memories, respectively. By switching a mode switch, the out-of-stock date and time data are subtracted from current time data, thereby calculating out-of-stock period data indicating the period the item has been in the out-of-stock state.
An automated ordering system in a retail shop adapted to automatically order goods. In the system, a demand amount in the future is first supposed on the basis of an average of the past demands, the supposed future demand amount is corrected by the variable condition used to change the demand amount to predict a future demand amount, and the order amount is determined pursuant to a calculation formula on the basis of the predictive future demand amount and the stock volume of goods. Goods tend to be stocked in surplus or out of stock are diagnosed on the basis of the change of the past demands and the worker determines the amount of orders in respect to these goods.
A display against inventory verification apparatus and method that is operable to compare the display of items in a store to the inventory of the store to ensure that all items in inventory are on display and to ensure that all items on display are in inventory. Each item on display includes a bar code label and a bar code label reader is used to read and store all of the bar codes on display. A computer controller, which communicates with the bar code label reader compares the items on display with an inventory of the items for determining those items on display with inventory below a predetermined threshold. The computer controller also compares the items on display with an inventory of available items for determining those available items not on display. The computer generates reports of the items on display with inventory below the predetermined threshold and of the items available in inventory that are not on display.
POS data are entered at step S1. The input POS data are arranged and those data for a day on which there was no stock at the store opening time and for a day on which the goods are out of stock at the store closure time are discarded to formulate data sets of the daily sale amounts for individual goods. At step S3, non-routine goods are discarded. At step S4, basic statistic values of the goods, such as mean value, standard deviation, maximum value, minimum value, skewness value, kurtosis value, Geary value etc. of the daily sale amounts of the goods are calculated. At step S5, the goods are classified into one of preset plural types, such as Poisson type, normal type, causal type and other type. Besides, an optimum amount for restocking order is found on the basis of the class types.
A method and structure are provided for automating the collection of information from a customer and providing a specification of a transaction system to fullfil the customer's needs and desires. An ordering step is used in order to obtain information via a convenient user interface to determine the customer's intended use of the machine and the performance desired. As a result of this ordering process, the system hardware configuration is determined automatically. During the implementation process, the system is used to assemble a package of software, to run the hardware thus configured and implement the chosen user functions. If desired, this information is stored for later use in the event the user wishes to modify the configuration of his system, or to order additional system configurations different than that of the initial system.
