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A-1 Bakery Group Hong Kong introduced BakeryScan
BakeryScan being featured in the American Magazine, The New Yokers:
BakeryScan was covered by Japanese AI Technology Web Media, Ledge.ai:
Japanese IT Media, ITmedia Inc., covered BakeryScan developer, Brain Co., Ltd.:
Features
Recognize breads in a blink of an eye
Detect & Recognize differences
Pre-packed? No Worries!
Fast Learner, Get smarter
Simple & Easy Operation
Step 1
Put tray on the counter & Scan products around 1 sec.
Step 2
Cashier confirm scanned products.
Step 3
Settlement & Packing products.
Benefits & Values
Everyone Can Be An Immediate Skilled Cashier
Simple & Easy operation of BakeryScan allows your staffs to handle cashier operation regardless of experiences. It make ease your business concerns related to staff management such as high turnover, hiring cost, staff allocation, etc.
Improve Customer's Experience & Satisfaction
The long queue waiting for check-out is not an ideal purchasing experience for customers. BakeryScan will reduce check-out queue as it can scan multiple products within a second. Moreover, minimize sales opportunity loss by reducing long queue.
More Products, Better Sales Strategies
New product development is key element to bring customers. Staffs are not required to remember products and register it to POS every time. Enhance new product development strategy and sales planning by having more varieties of products with flexible price setting.
BakeryScan Q&A
The following benefits can be expected after deploying the BakeryScan:
Cost Reduction
– Even junior cashiers can handle checkout operations at the similar speed as experienced senior cashiers.
– Able to shorten the waiting time for checkout and ease queues congestion without hiring experienced cashiers with high salary.
Sales Increase
– Strengthen your competitiveness by increasing the variety of products and provide more attractive products to customers without additional workloads on cashiers,
– In the case of Japanese bakery, they keep their attractive product lineup by introducing 5 to 10 new products every month to keep customers coming back and retain them. BakeryScan can increase the frequency of new product introductions without burdening the cashier.
Benefit for chain retailers
– Checkout operations are simplified, making it easier to hire cashiers, shorten the training period and reducing labour costs.
– Scanned images are saved as a log, which can be also used to check the quality of products produced in each store.
BakeryScan has many advantages compared to other similar product.
– It has a proven track record of operating 1,400 units in 600 stores in Japan and other countries. It is not at the demonstration stage and has already been in operation in many bakeries for years. It is the world’s most proven AI scanner for bakeries.
– Our online recognition rate monitoring is built in and it can maintain high recognition rates continuously, even for customers with many different store environments.
– Our AI constantly learns while checking out, so the more you use it, the more the recognition rate improves.
– Since learning data for new products can be created in the store, which anyone can do easily, even if products are frequently updated.
– Unstable store network will not impact the sales to customers as the AI scanning is done offline.
In an ideal environment where there are no packaging and no similar products, the recognition rate is 99-100%.
Even in non-ideal environments, such as a mixture of packaged and unpackaged products, multiple similar products, and different lighting conditions depending on the store, we have a proven record of a recognition rate of 90-95%.
The basic implementation process is as follows. We will accommodate based on your needs.
1. We will conduct product scanning tests to determine which products will be targets of scanning. During the scanning tests, we will also create the learning data.
2. We will customize the system for POS integration. (Depending on the POS you use, development may not be necessary.)
3. We will do the installation onsite and provide the training.
It will take approximately 2-3 months to implement, depending on the number of products and the status of POS customization.
In Malaysia, Zeoniq POS software can be used without customization. Other POS software can be used by requesting the POS vendor to customize for working with BakeryScan.
The following specification is recommended for POS hardware.
Recommended performance
CPU: Intel core i3 (6th generation) or higher
Memory: 4GB or above
HDD/SSD: 100GB or above
Port: USB3.0 x 1
BakeryScan Q&A集
BakeryScanの導入により以下の効果が期待できます。
＜コスト削減＞
・新人キャッシャーでも、熟練キャッシャーと同じスピードでレジ業務を行えます。
・高い給与の熟練キャッシャーを雇わなくてもレジの待ち時間を短縮し、行列を緩和できます。
＜売上向上＞
・キャッシャーに負担をかけず商品の種類を増やし、お客様により魅力的な品揃えを取りそろえることができ、競争力を強化できます。
・日本のベーカリーチェーンでは、毎月5～10種類の新商品を投入することで、商品ラインアップの新鮮さを維持し、お客様を飽きさせず囲い込みを行っています。BakeryScanを活用する事で、キャッシャー負担をかけずに新商品の投入サイクルを高める事ができます。
＜チェーン展開における効果＞
・チェックアウト業務が簡単になるのでキャッシャーを雇用しやすくなり、教育期間も短縮、人的コストを低減することができます。
・スキャンした写真がログとして残るため、各店舗で販売されている商品の品質チェックに活用することもできます。
・日本国内、海外あわせて600店舗1400台の実店舗での運用実績があります。他社製品のように、実証実験の段階ではなく、多くのベーカリーで既に何年も稼働しており、全世界で最も実績のある製品です。
・弊社のオンライン認識率モニタリングが組み込まれ、多数の異なる店舗環境を持つお客様においても、高い認識率を継続的に維持します。
・お客様のチェックアウトをしながら、我々のAIは常に学習を行うため、使えば使うほど認識率が向上します。
・新商品の学習データの作成を店舗で、非常に簡単に誰でも行えるため、商品の改廃が多い場合でも運用が可能です。
・AIの商品識別処理はオフラインで行うため、店舗のネットワークが不安定になってもお客様への販売業務への影響はありません。
1. 商品の読み取りテストを行い、スキャン対象とする商品を決定します。読み取りテストの中で学習データの作成も行います。
2. POS連携のためのカスタマイズを行います。（ご利用のPOSによって開発が不要の場合もございます）
3. 現地への設置とトレーニングを行います。 商品数やPOSカスタマイズの状況にもよりますが、概ね2～3か月程度での導入が可能です。
POSソフトは、マレーシアだとZeoniq社のPOSがカスタマイズ無しでご利用可能です。その他のPOSソフトはPOSベンダにBakeryScanとの連携カスタマイズを依頼していただくことで利用できます。POSハードは以下の性能を推奨します。
＜推奨性能＞
CPU: Intel core i3 (第6世代）以上
メモリ：4GB以上
HDD/SSD：100GB以上
ポート：USB3.0 x 1