System for sorting commercial articles and method therefor

An inflow article management system for managing the inflow of commercial articles comprising:

• at least one inflow line;
• an input feeding means through which a vendor feeds vendor identification information when the vendor puts an article into the inflow line;
• an article identification information reading means to read the information which is attached to an article and is related with article attributes;
• an article information storing means to store an article information table connecting the vendor identification information with the article identification information of articles and the number of the articles to be received;
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• an inflow article information control means which, when the identification information is fed through the input feeding means by the vendor and the article information is read, compares the identification information and the article information with the article information table, compares the number of articles currently provided by the vendor with the number of the same articles to be received, and writes the number of currently provided articles into the article information storing means,
• wherein the input feeding means comprises a combination of a display device and a touch-sensitive panel type input device, and the vendor feeds the identification information by touching the vendor's name on a list of expected vendors presented on the display device.