CodeRealm provides you, the vending operator, clear, accurate, and timely visibility of your operation, overall and in detail, customized to your needs and preferences. You can utilize the revenue producing and cost cutting strategies that would be impossible without the operational visibility that the CodeRealm Service provides.
Historically this kind of operational visibility has not been available, cost-effective, or easily usable. Without this kind of visibility the vending operational strategies have been limited to:
- Scattering vending machines over as many market locations as possible.
- Stocking your machines with products your experience indicates are the highest sellers.
- Not letting your machines run out of product.
If you had been “out-of-touch” with your vending business for a week or longer, what would be the FIRST thing you would want to know?
If I was that operator, AND I was using the CodeRealm service, that FIRST question would be:
Were EXPECTATIONS met during the past week?
The perfect answer to that question would be, “YES!”
A slightly less than perfect answer to that question might be, “YES, EXCEPT location “X” was SOLD-OUT of one or more products for a period of 17 minutes!” See EXCEPTION Summary for more information.
I could review the EXCEPTION Summary and then the Location Service Report. I could even drill down to a Location Product Sales Report as an animated bar chart for that location during that time period on that day, however usually I would leave that to the supervisor.
“Tees”
Testing, Tuning, Timing, Turning, Trimming, Taming, Training, and Transforming.
Testing the market in general, or any market location in particular, historically has been difficult to obtain valid information and impossible to keep current. Tuning (adjusting the product selection and quantities of each product for each location so that all products of a category (Bottle/Can “Bc”, and Snacks “Sk”) run out near the same time) allows the Timing (refill cycle time) to be determined.
Turning the valuable information from the first three Tees into increased revenue and lower costs is now possible. Initially the Timing for “Bc” category may not be the same as the “Sk” category for any location. If the refill cycle time is 10 days for the “Bc” category and 14 days for the “Sk” category, the Timing for that location must be 10 days or less. Increasing the product capacity for the “Bc” category (adding more machines or replacing with larger capacity machines) would increase efficiency, and is one way of Trimming costs. The route driver time saved can be used to service more locations, find new potential market locations, and Turning increased revenue for your business. As new market locations are implemented, adding new “Bc” machines with higher number of selection capability would decrease the market Testing time while increasing the Testing and Tuning accuracy.
Taming the support efforts includes collecting the product needs for all locations generating purchase orders for the inventory manager to review and send to suppliers. Order receivers are generated for the warehouse manager to use when product is delivered. Completed receivers with invoices are sent to the accounting manager for payment. Products for tomorrow’s routes are picked and staged for each route vehicle to be loaded. Shippers are generated for the market locations of each route. CodeRealm’s Taming support functions can produce a truly paperless system. The result is increased efficiency and more cost Trimming. This is where you could link the CodeRealm Service with your inventory control and accounting systems.
Training can be implemented using on-line interactive tutorials, which can be easily modified, and new tutorials added as needed. The CodeRealm Service provides a Transforming process that can continuously evolve and totally revolutionize your particular operation, and the entire Vending Industry.
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