The largest POS transformation in the history of the whole family, not only the hybrid cloud of hundreds of millions of directors, but also the three major designs of dual-mode, all-in-one stores and outdoor stalls | iThome

2022-09-17 09:12:45 By : Ms. Linda Zhang

Taiwan's supermarket giants have entered the once-in-a-decade wave of POS upgrades this year. Family Mart (hereinafter referred to as Family Mart) has even launched the largest POS information architecture renovation in history, not only updating the front and backend software and hardware of POS machines, but also strengthening the storefront. Wireless network construction is used as a heterogeneous backup for POS machines, and 100 million yuan has been invested in a new POS system architecture of hybrid cloud.FamilyMart recently launched a new retail model experiment, moving goods and POS machines to the car to become a mobile convenience store.This POS machine is a special old POS machine with wireless network function. In the future, it can provide POS machine signal through SD-WAN device with wireless network capability.Figure - Provided by the whole familyMachines that have been in use for 10 years are gradually aging. However, more and more modern retail services need to be integrated into POS machines, such as electronic payment, which also overloads the checkout processing of most previous-generation POS machines in supermarkets, and even delays computing. Even pauses, so checkout efficiency is also an optimization focus for the new POS machines of the whole family.The new POS machine not only strengthens the hardware computing capability, but also significantly updates the front-end and back-end system intermediary software to improve reliability and efficiency.The whole family said that the checkout efficiency of the new POS system is 3 times higher than that of the old system.