摘要 |
<p>PROBLEM TO BE SOLVED: To set optimum column arrangement and sample can layout, without depending on the intuition of an operator by forming the column arrangement and sample can layout of commodities by a computer on the basis of commodity sales information for each automatic vending machine, and outputting the formed result to a hand-held terminal or document usable by the operator. SOLUTION: In this method, the commodity sales information for each vending machine is collected by the computer (Step S1); high demand commodities and low demand commodities are analyzed, on the basis of this information (Step S2), and the column arrangement and sample can layout of commodities in the corresponding vending machine are formed on the basis of the analytic result (Step S4). The formed result is outputted to a hand-held terminal 10 which can be transmitted to the control part of the vending machine, and the work related to the column arrangement and sample can layout of the vending machine is instructed through the hand-held terminal 10.</p> |