Monday, February 18, 2008

Benefits Of A Bulk Vending Machine Route Manager

If you are a Planet Antares bulk vending operator, here’s some good news for you.

The vending industry has been given another technological innovation in the form of a very useful and affordable tool called BULK VENDING MACHINE ROUTE MANAGER.

As a vending operator, you should always try to make route management easier, faster and more organized. Also, it will be beneficial for business profits if you can find ways to cut down costs and increase efficiency.

The route manager can be easily found online at various reputable websites at very reasonable prices and is transmitted to you over the email. As it is, this impressive and powerful tool allows you to:

Run a vending machine route with more than 100 vending machines
Print tickets that can be carried with you
Undertake automatic calculation for income generated by each vending location
Find locations easily and quickly through map code
Use location name
Use location address
Use location phone number
Use location hours of business
Specify the frequency of servicing each location
Add notes and comments
Record the date of service
Record the type pf products for every location on the vending route

When you have all this information, you will witness a massive change in your business efficiency and the positive impact on business decisions. It will also become easier to form sound strategies for different locations and make future plans on the basis of objective assessment and not just vague assumptions.

In turn, this will definitely lead to higher sales and profitability of your Planet Antares vending business. After all, the main aim of every business is to maximize profits and using a route manager will surely help you achieve this aim.

Friday, February 01, 2008

Large Sized Candy – The Next Best Thing In Vending Business

Candy companies are predicting that large sized candy bars are the next best thing to hit the vending industry. In simple terms, it will be a great opportunity to earn revenue and increase business profitability.

The first segment to take up this opportunity is the beverage companies that have upgraded the size of their products. Now, vending operators are offering beverages of 20 ounce instead of 12 ounces.

Some of the benefits of shifting to large sized candy from smaller ones include the following:

1. Benefits for operators
As a Planet Antares vending operator, you will benefit from the upgrading to larger bottles. You will witness a higher gross dollar profit for your Antares vending business even though the gross margins will be lower.

2. Benefits for customers
For customers, it will be financially beneficial to buy a 20 ounce beverage rather than the traditional 12 ounce bottles. Obviously, they will get 8 ounces extra of the product at a lower cost per ounce. Your Planet Antares vending machines can offer larger ounce beverage from vending machines that previously provided 12 ounce beverages.

3. Benefits for manufacturers
For manufacturers, margins will improve as they switch over to 20 ounce bottles from 12 ounce bottles for selling beverages to vending customers.

This strategy is known as ‘trade up marketing’. Such tactics are often used in the food industry and has great benefits. In turn, this means higher profitability and more success for your Antares vending business.

On the other hand, customers benefit by getting more value for their money. The beverage sizes are increased drastically without a significant rise in the prices, thus making such changes acceptable for maximum number of customers.

In certain cases, small beverage sizes have been already eliminated. For example, you may not get the 8 ounce and 12 ounce beverages in many locations that now offer only 20 ounce beverages like soda, coffee and milk.

With the increase in demand for larger products at a small upgrade cost, Antares vending operators and others will have to respond to such changes and use trade up marketing to experience success. Like other industries, trade up marketing is bound to work well in the food industry as well.