Technology Helpful in Vending

The automatic merchandising industry has a bright future. Your Antares vending operation can prosper with the help of innovations such as new age beverages and DEX-capable handheld computers. Operators need to take advantage of the new technology.

Vendors need to be open to new concepts. They must be willing to view each account’s needs individually rather than using a cookie- cutter approach. Some accounts will subsidize services, as long as they have the financial information. The information is possible because of DEX data.

Profitability

The dollar coin payout can increase sales for your Antares business. This is great benefit to the vendor, because it would increase your profitability. The concept of planograms is a key element in the company’s merchandising and inventory control systems. As a result of this concept you can place the most sought-after products such as Snickers Bars on the left of the vending machine. This will force the customer to span the whole machine before making a selection because they will get to look at the full variety. As an operator, it is important that you understand the advantage of larger portion snacks. Some vendors prefer smaller bags because the margins are better. All this can increase your profitability.

Better cash auditing

If you are auditing your Antares machines’ sales by comparing manually recorded meter readings against cash collected, then you definitely need a better way to track sales. Implementing handheld computers in your operations will save you time and improve product selection.

DEX enables informed decisions

Product mix is also much easier to manage, thanks to line item tracking. You would be able to identify the slowest selling product in each Antares machine by simply reviewing the sales data. You can pull up the product list for every machine on the computer, and with a click of a mouse, replace it with a new item. The product mix in the machines should be uniform.

Item level data impresses accounts

The item level data goes over well with customers. Accounts eat up that information. Not all machines are DEX-enabled, and the drivers still have to manually key in some of the turns at the machine. In the future, we should expect all snack and cold drink vending machines to be DEX enabled.