CA-3087614-C - LIQUID SALES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

Abstract

This liquid sales management system (101) is provided with a liquid supply system (70) and a sales information management system (250) that are in a shop, and a management server (300) which communicates with the liquid supply system and the sales information management system. The liquid supply system is provided with a pouring device (50) which pours out a liquid (20) into a beverage container (40), an actual flow amount creation unit (110) which calculates the measured flow amount of the liquid poured out of the pouring device into the beverage container, and a transmitting and receiving unit (150). The sales information management system sends sales information to a communication line, and the management server has a consumption amount analysis unit (130) which calculates, as the unsold amount of the liquid, the difference between the apparent liquid amount and the measured flow amount.

Inventors

• Naoyuki Yamashita
• Junichi Kitano
• Takashi Wada
• Kenji Kusunoki

Assignees

• ASAHI BREWERIES, LTD.
• ASAHI GROUP HOLDINGS, LTD.

Dates

Publication Date

20260505

Application Date

20181130

Priority Date

20180104

Claims (8)

1. CLAIMS 1. A liquid sales management system comprising a liquid supply system in a store, a sales information management system in the store, and a management server communicating with the liquid supply system and the sales information management system via a communication line, the liquid supply system including: a dispensing device configured such that a liquid within a storage container is supplied with pressurization through a supply pipe, configured to cool and dispense the liquid to a drinking container; an actual flow rate preparation part configured to have a flow rate sensor detecting an amount of the liquid dispensed into the drinking container and to determine a actual measured flow rate of the liquid dispensed into the drinking container from the dispensing device; and a transmission and reception part configured to communicate with the communication line, the sales information management system corresponding to a system configured to send sales information of the liquid to the communication line, the sales information being information with which pieces of information of a sales unit capacity corresponding to a prescribed capacity per one sale, the number of sales, and a sales time are associated, and the management server including a consumption analysis part configured to determine a difference between an apparent liquid amount determined from the sales information and the actual measured flow rate, the difference corresponding to a non-sales amount of the liquid which is not involved in sales.
2. 2. The liquid sales management system according to claim 1, Date Reyue/Date Received 2020-07-03 wherein the management server further includes an overtime consumption acquisition part configured to determine an amount of liquid consumed after the sales time is ended, as an overtime consumption.
3. 3. The liquid sales management system according to claim 2, wherein the overtime consumption acquisition part is configured to subtract a known consumption of the liquid consumed by one cleaning operation for the liquid supply system from the overtime consumption.
4. 4. The liquid sales management system according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein the management server further includes a unit capacity error acquisition part configured to determine a difference between the sales unit capacity and the actual measured flow rate, as a unit capacity error.
5. 5. The liquid sales management system according to any one of claims 1 to 4, further comprising: an analysis device configured to be provided in a liquid manufacturer and to communicate with the communication line.
6. 6. A liquid sales management system comprising a liquid supply system in a store, a sales information management system in the store, and a management server configured to perform communication via a communication line and to store information from the liquid supply system and the sales information management system, the sales information management system corresponding to a system configured to send sales information of the liquid to the communication line, the sales information being information with which pieces of information of a sales unit capacity corresponding to a prescribed capacity per one sale, the number of 26 Date Reyue/Date Received 2020-07-03 sales, and a sales time are associated, the liquid supply system including: a dispensing device configured such that a liquid within a storage container is supplied with pressurization through a supply pipe, configured to cool and dispense the liquid to a drinking container; an actual flow rate preparation part configured to have a flow rate sensor detecting an amount of the liquid dispensed into the drinking container and to determine a actual measured flow rate of the liquid dispensed into the drinking container from the dispensing device; a transmission and reception part configured to communicate with the communication line, and a consumption analysis part configured to determine a difference between an apparent liquid amount determined from the sales information obtained from the management server and the actual measured flow rate, the difference corresponding to a non-sales amount of the liquid which is not involved in sales.
7. 7. The liquid sales management system according to claim 6, further comprising: an analysis device configured to communicate with the communication line.
8. 8. The liquid sales management system according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein the liquid supply system further includes a fluid flow path adjustment device configured to be mounted with respect to the supply pipe and including a fluid stopper device configured to stop the dispensing of the liquid from the dispensing device. 27 Date Reyue/Date Received 2020-07-03

Description

DESCRIPI'ION TITLE OF THE INVENTION: LIQUID SALES MANAGEMENT SYSTEM TECHNICAL FIELD [0001) The present invention relates to a liquid sales management system that manages sales of a liquid in a liquid supply system. BACKGROUND ART [0002] In a restaurant, a liquid supply system is generally used as a device for providing a liquid, for example, beer. When the beer is used as an example, the liquid supply system includes a carbon dioxide gas cylinder, a beer barrel filled with beer, a supply pipe, and a beer dispenser. The liquid supply system pressurizes the beer within the beer barrel with a carbon dioxide gas of the carbon dioxide gas cylinder, and transfers the liquid with pressurization from the supply pipe to the beer dispenser. The beer dispenser has a beer cooling pipe provided within a cooling tank, a refrigeration machine, and a dispensing outlet. The beer dispenser freezes a part of a cooling water within the cooling tank by the refrigeration machine, cools the beer while causing the beer to flow within the beer cooling pipe by a lever operation at the dispensing outlet, and dispenses the beer to a drinking container such as a beer mug. In this manner, the beer within the beer barrel is provided to a customer. [0003) Many restaurants adopt a so-called point of sales system (POS) system as a system for managing sales information. The POS system is a system that acquires and transmits the sales information and the like when, for example, a 1 Date Re~ue/Date Received 2020-07-03 customer pays a fee. Thus, for example, the sales amount of beer can be recorded together with time information of month, day, hour, and minute by using the POS system. PRIOR ART DOCUMENTS PATENT DOCUMENTS [0004] Patent Document 1: JP 2001-229466 A Patent Document 2: JP 5963587B SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION PROBLEMS TO BE SOLVED BY THE INVENTION [0005] It is possible to manage sales information on an account book, in other words, nominal or apparent sales information by using the POS system as described above. That is, for example, information indicating that two medium beer mugs of beer are sold at 20:00 can be recorded. Here, when a prescribed capacity of one medium beer mug is decided to be 300 ml, 600 ml of beer is consumed at the aforementioned time on the sales information in the POS system. However, for example, if a staff in the restaurant spills the beer while pouring the beer into the first beer mug, for example, 330 ml of beer is actually consumed, and 630 ml of beer is actually consumed. [0006] As described above, the fact is that the apparent sales information in the POS system may not match up with the actual consumption. However, heretofore, the sales management of the liquid is not performed by focusing on the difference between the sales information in the POS system 2 Date Re~ue/Date Received 2020-07-03 and the actual consumption. (0007] The Patent Document 1 discloses that the remaining amount of a drink is managed by using a POS system in a restaurant, and the Document 1 fails to teach the content of comparing apparent information with actual information. The Patent Document 2 discloses that state information of beverage is transmitted from a transmission device to a communication line, and is monitored by an external computer. So, the Patent Document 2 also fails to teach the content of comparing apparent information and actual information. [0008) The present invention has been made in order to solve such problems, and an object of the present invention is to provide a liquid sales management system that performs sales management of a liquid by focusing on a difference between sales information and an actual liquid consumption. MEANS FOR SOLVING THE PROBLEMS [0009] To achieve the aforementioned object, the present invention has a configuration to be described below. That is, a liquid sales management system according to an aspect of the present invention is a system comprising a liquid supply system in a store, a sales information management system in the store, and a management server communicating with the liquid supply system and the sales information management system via a communication line, the liquid supply system including: a dispensing device configured such that a liquid within a storage 3 Date Re~ue/Date Received 2020-07-03 container is supplied with pressurization through a supply pipe, configured to cool and dispense the liquid to a drinking container; an actual flow rate preparation part configured to have a flow rate sensor detecting an amount of the liquid dispensed into the drinking container and to determine a actual measured flow rate of the liquid dispensed into the drinking container from the dispensing device; and a transmission and reception part configured to communicate with the communication line, the sales information management system corresponding to a system configured to send sales information of the liquid to the communication line, the sales information being information with whi