摘要 |
<P>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To provide a market inventory analysis system that allows an article supplier such as a maker to analyze a market trend based on an inventory situation in the whole market of articles, generally allows speedy and easy analysis based on information capable of being provided by a retailer or the like, and allows the analysis as accurate as possible, and a market inventory analysis method. <P>SOLUTION: The market inventory analysis system acquires amount data of sold articles from a POS terminal of a retailer and amount data of warehoused articles from a terminal installed in a warehouse or the like. The sold amount and the warehoused amount are recorded on an inventory database, and an inventory amount can be estimated based on coming and going of the articles. The system regularly acquires inventory amount by stocktaking, corrects error generated by abolishment and loss of the inventory, and updates it to an accurate value. Since the inventory amount is recognized widely in this speedy and easy method, the amount can be used as data not only for simple inventory management but also for understanding selling trend in the whole market. <P>COPYRIGHT: (C)2005,JPO&NCIPI |