Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Specialization For Vending Business Efficiency

All vending operators will benefit from the concept of operating dedicated beverage routes. Planet Antares vending operator must ensure that they do enough business to keep at least one full time route person busy. There are several benefits that come with this.

A well designed beverage truck, with outside, roll up doors on the sides can be filled by the pallet with a forklift truck. As compared to a mixed-product route vehicle, this will take much lesser time. In such circumstances, you will have to load one case at a time.

Due to space limitations on a mixed product truck, Planet Antares operators may not be able offer all the brands they could proftably sell. Although many customers will opt for an alternate brand or flavor if their first choice is not available. In fact, certain customers may even decide to walk away and lead to loss of sale. A well designed truck allows you to stock all the items that are demanded by customers of your business.

For new route drivers, it means learning how to fill one type of machine and thus, have one less type of machine to learn. This would cut down on the amount of time taken for training a new route personnel and bringing him closer to the point where he is capable of running a Planet Antares vending route on his own.

Specialization is a must for enhancing business efficiency. When an employee only handles one product, he will learn how to handle the product with very few wasted motions. The machines will be filled at a faster pace since he will be more efficient. Mixed product route will also benefit. They would have one less product to worry about, and no longer have any chances of tripping over beverage cases in the vehicle.

The driver can reach more locations to service perishable product machines once he has removed the beverage trucks from the vehicle and the beverage services from the route.

If you try to run a dedictaed beverage route for your Planet Antares vending business, using a typical step or cube van, it will probably be too much work. It’s best to go for a truck that can be loaded with a forklift.

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