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The sales management method for automatic vending machines of the present invention lightens the processing burden of each automatic vending machine for sales estimates. Information required for sales estimates are transmitted from the automatic vending machine 1 to the center computer 11 and proces

The sales management method for automatic vending machines of the present invention lightens the processing burden of each automatic vending machine for sales estimates. Information required for sales estimates are transmitted from the automatic vending machine 1 to the center computer 11 and processed by the center computer 11 to make sales estimates for each automatic vending machine 1. Each automatic vending machine 1 makes sales preparations based on the results of this estimate to increase sales to meet growing demand at a specific date and time. Utilizing high performance of the center computer 11, sales estimates are made by combining various information such as weather forecast information and information on installation sites and the like with the past sales information so as to improve estimate accuracy.

대표청구항 ▼

[ I claim:] [1.] A sales management method for a vending machine in which the product it vends is at least partially prepared in advance prior to the beginning of a period of time of vending the product comprising:producing, at the machine, sales information of the product vended and of the sales en

[ I claim:] [1.] A sales management method for a vending machine in which the product it vends is at least partially prepared in advance prior to the beginning of a period of time of vending the product comprising:producing, at the machine, sales information of the product vended and of the sales environment relative to the machine;establishing, at a central computer, sales estimate information of the product for the machine based on at least one of the sales information obtained from the machine and sales environment data entered in said central computer;transmitting said sales estimate information to said machine;modifying at the machine the sales estimate information received from the central computer by the sales environment information produced relative to the machine for determining the quantity of the product to be at least partially prepared at the machine; andat least partially preparing a quantity of the product to be vended based upon said sales estimate information received from said central computer.