Location Based Data Transmission For Vending Business

Even though your Planet Antares vending machines may be equipped with a data capture device, the decision about the method of transmission is based on the characteristics and needs of the location.

Online data delivery can definitely help in increasing the profitability of transient locations with fluctuating sales and locations that involve long travel times. Business and Industry locations with stable and predictable work forces can function with affordable handheld data delivery. However, if these locations work occassional second shifts or weekends, with a fluctuating work force, the wireless transmisison may be indicated.

No matter what the method of transmission, the basic benefit of the system is the ability to capture and report the quantity of sales, by individual brands, in each Planet Antares vending machine, without the route operator having to manually count the product placements by brand.
If you are equipped with this brand preference data for your Planet Antares operations, you can perform the same function that a merchandiser manager performs at a supermarket. That involves elimination of products that the location has demonstrated as low performing products and have them replaced with test products they think the location might want. Space to sales analysis techniques are used to determine the product mix.

To enable the products to sell at uniform rates, you need to allocate double or triple columns in your Planet Antares vending machines for the top selling brands. This will get you higher sales and longer intervals between servicing of the accounts. This will put more money in the cash box for the cost of each service.

As the system knows the brands and the sales level in every vending machine, it can estimate what the route operator should get from his truck. Unneccessary double trips to each machine would then be eliminated. On the machines equipped with wireless transmission of data, the driver will not have to enter anything into his handheld if the predicted order proves to be accurate.