Cutting Down On The Delivery Trips For Your Vending Business

One method for lowering the fuel costs for your Planet Antares vending business is to use less gas by cutting down on the number of deliveries. By doing so, you will make better use of the driver’s time and provide more value to the operator for the same wages and health care costs.

In case you have not been optimizing your vending routes, now is the right time to let those rising costs be a catalyst. Look for certain “metrics” for each Planet Antares vending machine and then plan on updating of both the planograms and delivery schedules.

Any modern vending software system will make collection and analysis of the appropriate metrics much quicker and simpler. In spite of this, the job can still be done without one. Begin with looking at the most recent services of every vending machine and then consider the following elements:

1) percent deleted
2) percent filled
3) Number of sold out columns
4) Number of sold out products
5) Value of dollar sales

Ultimately, the goal in fine tuning schedules and planograms is to service the Planet Antares vending machine when it is as depleted as possible and has no sold out products. Commonly, there is a certain amount of sold out columns that may be acceptable because studies indicate that you will only lose the sale if the products demanded by customers are not made available to them.

Apart from the dangerous 60% rise in the cost of energy, vending operators are facing increasing healthcare and labor costs and lower manufacturer rebates. All these issues together can have a serious impact on your vending business profitability. Fortunately, Planet Antares vending operators can adopt the practice of reducing delivery trips and successfully mitigate the impact of rising costs and declining rebates.

Vending Business And Mid Market Accounts

With the increasing costs, many Planet Antares vending operators have been forced to ignore locations with fewer than 100 people. Still, one segment of this market, the honor box customers continue to hold on. As product and loabor costs rose in recent years, even they have started exploring new business opportunities.

One such opportunity is the mid market accounts. These are vending locations that are too small for traditional vending machines but larger than 10 to 50 person accounts that honor box operators traditionally serve. As a Planet Antares vending operator, you can take an interest in this underserved market.

In the meantime, the honor snack market remains the exclusive domain of a small group of operators who have learned to survive the demands of a changing market with product shrinkage, high employee turnover and almost no means of product accountability.

Some vending operators don’t consider vending as a threat to any of the honor box accounts. No vending company is interested in an account with only 18 employees. Most of the honor box accounts have fewer than 50 employees and high account volume is one of the keys to the honor snack business.

If an honor snack box is unable to meet the needs of an account, multiple boxes can be placed at the location. In addition to this, you can takeover an account with 80 people or more that want a snack machine and soda machine like that provided by Planet Antares Inc.

Multiple boxes can be placed at a location if an account’s needs are not being fulfilled by an honor box. In addition to this, you can take over an account with about 80 people that want a snack machine and a soda machine.