Good Vending Services

It is the prime responsibility of a vending operator to see to it that his machine functions smoothly without any hindrances. This can help in providing uninterrupted services to customers and thus generate regular income. But how is it possible? The answer is very simple-regular servicing of machine.

Due to various reasons, operators do not service their machines regularly. Most of them get their machines serviced only after they get depleted by 30% or run out of stock. This is not at appropriate to wait till your machine becomes empty. You can also provide good service even without making frequent visits to vending machines. Few strategies that can make such efficiency possible are:

• Stock your machines with fast moving products. Try to offer two or three such products at a time in your machine.
• Track your sales for at least a few weeks. This will help you know those products that have least demand. You can replace them with fast moving products.
• Try to schedule your vending machine for 40-50% depletion level.

In case you are using a mechanical vending machine or a machine that does now have latest technology for tracking sales, you can take the help of route drivers. These drivers can provide you with required data. Using this data, you can find out how often your vending machine becomes empty, best selling products, number of columns allocated to each product and number of products that has been sold out.

In case you are using a manual route scheduling, it can be automated with the help of technology and software. This will enable you to derive higher efficiency and result in more accurate results. The two important vending route scheduling technologies are dynamic scheduling and remote monitoring. Dynamic scheduling allows you to automate the delivery schedule on a daily basis. Using dynamic schedule, you can save companies resources, driver’s time and fuel costs. Remote monitoring on the other hand enables monitoring of real time sales data.. This method also helps in servicing machines that are located in remote areas.

So, the ball is now in your court and you can decide on which method to adopt. To get more insight into the vending business strategies contact Planet Antares staff.